Culture, Environment, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Roger Neckles ● Issue 11 (Autumn 1994)
Going for the Birds
Until last December there were 431 recorded species of birds in Trinidad and Tobago, an extraordinary range for such small islands. Then,...
Culture, Environment, People, Canada, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 11 (Autumn 1994)
The Bellairs Research Institute: Finding the Answers
It is late at night. Savage waves pound the shoreline of Barbados’s rugged Atlantic coast. Emerging from the turbulence, a l80-pound...
Culture, Environment, Arts, Lifestyle
By Merle Gunby ● Issue 18 (March/April 1996)
Turtle Watching in the Caribbean: Out of the Deep
Merle Gunby watches as one of the earth’s oldest and strangest creatures – the Leatherback turtle – carries out her nesting...
Culture, Environment, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sue Limb ● Issue 19 (May/June 1996)
In Search of the Tufted Coquette in Trinidad & Tobago
More than 430 bird species have been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago, over 170 in the Arima Valley alone, site of the famous Asa Wright...
Culture, Environment, People, Jamaica
By Mary Adam ● Issue 22 (November/December 1996)
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...
Culture, Environment, Travel, Trinidad and Tobago
By Peter Rickwood ● Issue 24 (March/April 1997)
Little Tobago: Counting the Birds of Paradise
There may or may not be a portrait of Queen Victoria looking down on the chaps at Britain’s Scientific Exploration Society, but the fact...
Culture, Environment, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 30 (March/April 1998)
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...
Culture, Environment, History, Montserrat
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 32 (July/August 1998)
Montserrat: Mountains of Ash
It was difficult to grasp the fact that it was possible to walk across the verandah and through the shutters straight into a first-floor...