Paria Bay bound, Trinidad | Offtrack By Nixon Nelson | Issue 163 (March/April 2021) Trinidad’s north coast, where mountains tumble down to the sea, is home to popular beaches like Maracas and Las Cuevas — but also to little-known bays accessible only by hiking, plus forest trails, waterfalls, and some of the island’s most dramatic scenery. Nixon Nelson heads out to Paria Bay, one of the gems of the north coast
The Miseducation of Merle Hodge | Backstory By Andre Bagoo | Issue 163 (March/April 2021) Trinidadian writer Merle Hodge began her career by publishing what would become a beloved Caribbean classic, Crick Crack, Monkey, in 1970. Five decades later, as she prepares to publish her third novel, Hodge tells Andre Bagoo what took so long — and what drives her interest in capturing the often confusing experience of Caribbean childhood on the page
The Carnival photo I can’t forget | Portfolio By Various Contributors | January/February 2021 February brings T&T’s annual Carnival, and 2021 — with the physical festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — is a year to reminisce about Carnivals past. We asked three photographers — Jason C. Audain, Maria Nunes, and Shaun Rambaran — to choose one favourite image from their respective Carnival archives, and tell us the story behind it. As it turns out, the photos they chose all had something in common
Carnival is love | Backstory By Attillah Springer, Amanda Choo Quan and Georgia Popplewell | January/February 2021 T&T Carnival is tradition and originality, ritual and rebellion, the sacred and the profane — and a million love stories. Here are three of them, from Attillah Springer, Amanda Choo Quan, and Georgia Popplewell
Great Icacos Lagoon, Trinidad | Wish you were here (Nov/Dec 2020) By Caribbean Beat | November/December 2020 • Digital Issue Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places
The good life | Round trip By Caribbean Beat | November/December 2020 • Digital Issue Even in hard times — and 2020 brought more than its fair share — the Caribbean is one of the sweetest places on earth, thanks to beautiful landscapes, vibrant culture, and warm, generous people
Tony Hall (1948–2020) and Dennis “Sprangalang” Hall (1949–2020) | Icon By Attillah Springer | November/December 2020 • Digital Issue Attillah Springer explains the roles of T&T’s irreplaceable theatrical brothers in the ongoing struggle for cultural self-determination
Anti-stoosh: Adam “DJ foreigner” Cooper | Snapshot By Amanda Choo Quan | September/October 2020 • Digital Issue From live events mixing and mashing diverse musical genres to his online Carnival Tabanca series, Trinidadian DJ Adam Cooper — also known as foreigner, based in Los Angeles — is completely reinventing what Caribbean culture can be, writes Amanda Choo Quan
