Veni Mangé: Recipes from Allyson Henessy
Allyson is a Trinidadian chef with “a real sweet hand”, and a local TV personality; her sister Roses is the one with the nose ring and...
Byron Lee: Soca Dragon
There’s a body on the bare wooden stage. The open-air “dancehall” is by the sea on the north-western peninsula of Trinidad. It is...
Winston Nanan and the Caroni Swamp
When he was 11, Winston Nanan’s father pulled him out of school and sent him into the swamp. It should have been an inauspicious...
Rosa’s Story
In 1994, when I was working in a hospital in Cuba, I got the opportunity to travel to Jamaica. At that time, people in Cuba were trying to...
Jean Rhys: The Madwoman in the Attic
The publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 was, almost literally, a return from the dead for its 76-year-old author, Jean Rhys. In the...
Sandra Dean: Rethinking Education
How does the sheltered daughter of a suburban community in Trinidad come to be one of the most decorated principals in Canada? What is it...
The World of Rastafari
Imagine you’ve booked a holiday. You’re off to the Caribbean; maybe visiting friends on another island. But when you arrive you...
Carlisle Chang
Waving his slender hands to emphasise a point about painting, Carlisle Chang raises his voice slightly above the music of gongs and flutes...
