Boldon the Beautiful? Trinidad Sprinter Ato Boldon
Adrenaline: a hormone secreted by the adrenal gland, causing excitement and stimulation. “On your marks!” Eight well-muscled...
Island Beat (May/June 1996)
Tobago’s Heritage Festival In the early 1980s, while other islands promoted carnivals and crop-overs, Tobago decided to be different....
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...
West Indies Cricket: Beyond the Boundary
I’ve always adored cricket, even as a girl. I soon realised that what most fast bowlers wanted was maidens and that maidens could...
Caribbean Football: Who the Cup Fits
For a small country, a national sports team is a potent symbol, a repository of civic dreams and aspirations. If that team happens to be a...
Trinidad’s Stephen Ames: Seeing Green
Chaguaramas Public Golf Course on Trinidad’s north-west peninsula. A still, sultry February afternoon. Vultures wheel lazily under a...
Barbados’ Obadele Thompson
His name is Yoruba, meaning “The King arrives at Home,” and for Obadele Thompson, the 22-year-old Olympic runner, it will be an uneasy...
Taking on the America’s Cup
Out of a late-night drinking session in the island of St Thomas came a most challenging proposition. Shooting the breeze during the annual...
