Kathryn Cleghorn and Animals Alive: dogs’ best friend
The quiet of a Sunday morning in a south Trinidad village is broken by the sound of many dogs barking. The clash of high-pitched and deep...
Tobago: green as an island
Driving through Tobago’s rainforest is like meditation. Free from human noise, the silence is filled instead with the heartbeat of life...
Mt Roraima: “I could hardly imagine how we came all this way”
“Setting off for Mt Roraima in March 2007, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I’d read as much as I could find about the...
San Pedro, Belize
Streetscape One of those laid-back Caribbean towns where no building is taller than a coconut tree, San Pedro has grown in recent decades...
Toronto: summer in the city
They may not have written any soulful ballads about it (yet) — but Toronto in summer is well worth singing about. For one thing, it’s...
Nadia Huggins: after the leap
It’s a dramatic landscape, in which there are the expected elements: the translucent blue and white of sea and sand, the strong forms of...
Eugene Andre: “You have to gather all the broken pieces”
I became a sculptor as a teenager because of the ghetto. I wanted to change my condition of life, and so at fifteen I turned to my...
The Queen’s kaiso
When British calypsonian Alexander D Great heard calypso for the first time, it wasn’t in Trinidad, where he was born in Belmont, the...
