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Immerse, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

Olympic afterglow: Trinidadian Keshorn Walcott

A year later, the track and field world is still in awe of Keshorn Walcott’s performance at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Just...

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Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, Food and Cuisine, Antigua and Barbuda

Erna Mae Tonge: Recipe for magic

“Come in the kitchen and help me,” Gwendolyn Tonge would say to her daughter Erna Mae when she was still a girl. Now, the girl who...

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Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Suriname

Marcel Pinas: the art of presence

Because of the available flight connections from Trinidad, I always arrive in and depart from Suriname nodding between sleep and waking,...

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Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, People, Aruba

Juan Francisco Pardo: Stories for the eye

It takes significant skill and perhaps even more restraint to tell a good visual story in just sixteen minutes. To lead the viewer through...

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Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, People, Jamaica

Esther Anderson: “They said I’d snubbed Hollywood”

I was born in St Mary Parish — Highgate. I have a sister, four brothers, and other half-brothers and -sisters — my father’s children....

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Immerse, Culture, Music, People, Haiti

Emeline Michel: Queen of songs

I must begin this column with a somewhat sheepish admission: I don’t know a great deal about the music of the French Caribbean. That’s...

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Immerse, Culture, Music, History, Panama

Panama’s Casco Viejo: jamming in the old town

My first impressions of Panama City’s Casco Viejo, or Old Town, are comforting. It’s odd how this unknown place — I’ve never...

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Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, History, Trinidad and Tobago

Houses of the spirits

In islands like Jamaica and Barbados, the great sugar plantocracies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spawned imposing mansions...

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