Sheldon Bissessar: the Trinidad Rocket races ahead
Sheldon Bissessar is known as the Trinidad Rocket, and no wonder – he drives cars that roar down the drag strip at over 200 miles an...
Bachacs: No Surrender
My tiny garden in England gave me few problems. If it looked parched in the summer, that was because of the hosepipe bans, and it always...
The Barcelona Olympics: Hunting Caribbean Gold
Ace cyclist Gene Samuel of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey are the Caribbean’s best medal prospects for the...
Tobago Diving: Landscape of a Dream
It’s a bright, hot October day: the sky an intense blue, the sea deep green. The 55hp Evinrude engine cuts a foaming white swath...
Wayne Berkeley: Trinidad’s King Carnival
Take a peek inside Wayne Berkeley‘s mas camp, famous throughout Trinidad and Tobago for its organisation and its wide variety of...
Dancing To A Single “Dub” Beat
I have this theory that the islands and territories of the West Indian archipelago were once all joined together. Without any sea between...
Cyril Sammy: Caribbean Chef of the Year
It was Plantain Pie that made Cyril Sammy the 1992 Caribbean Chef of the Year. Each year, chefs in Caribbean hotels are invited to send in...
SuperBlue: the Pied Piper of Soca
Rip the shirt off SuperBlue’s back. Take the sequined cap off his head. Strip him to the bone if you have to. But don’t you...
