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Music, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

The Willard White Way

The life of an opera singer is not all glamour. The bass baritone Willard White is sitting in a blank hotel room in Liverpool, looking out...

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Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Beryl McBurnie: the First Lady of Dance

Last year, the brewers of Trinidad and Tobago’s best-known beer introduced a smaller-sized bottle. It immediately became known as a...

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Culture, Environment, People, Jamaica

A Very True Observer: Philip Henry Gosse

Life was not easy for Philip Henry Gosse in the early 1840s. He trained for a career as a naturalist, but it was a tough way to make a...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Guyana

Philip Moore: It Takes a Village

I interrupted him again this morning. He was at work in a makeshift studio on the ground floor of a busy complex in central Georgetown,...

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Culture, Arts, People, Haiti

Jean-Jacques Fougère-Audubon: The Bird Man

Think of birds, and you think of Audubon. But who was he? Caroline Popovic finds out The founders of the Audubon Society named their august...

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Culture, People, Barbados

Big Mac: Barbados’ Mac Fingall

At six foot five, the Games Master at the Lodge School looks small in his cramped cubicle, which is three feet square. Paper is scattered...

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Lifestyle, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

Jason Apparicio: Wave Rider

As I paddle my surfboard through tepid turquoise on the remote north coast of Trinidad, it’s hard to believe this is the same ocean...

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Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Machel Montano: Winer Man

On the Trinidad Carnival stage, he is notorious for every kind of “wine.” Legs apart, he “throws waist” to the wild...

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