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...
Trinidad Carnival Preview
Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival is not a newly-invented tourist festival: it is a deeply-rooted ritual that goes to the heart of the...
The Peter Rousseau Factor
Perhaps it was the travels with his father, who was a salesman for Grace, Kennedy & Co. (Jamaica’s largest food processor and...
Indigo: Marina Warner
The English writer Marina Warner was almost a Trinidadian. In the 1970s, when Britain s nationality laws were changed, she realised that if...
Island Beat (January/February 1996)
BARBADOS AIMS FOR A NATIONAL GALLERY A major new art gallery opens in Barbados this year, and could become the centre of a national art...
Upbeat (Nov/Dec 1996)
Viva Le King The Roaring Lion (Ice Records 951002) Here’s an album that successfully combines vintage calypso with modern styling. In...
Hunting for Fidel
I am no great pillar of capitalism. But you see communism? I can’t afford it. One night of socialist fever almost killed my feeble...
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...
