Trinidad and Tobago

People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, History, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad’s Temple in the Sea

Quarter of a mile off the west coast of Trinidad there stands an extraordinary monument to the human spirit: a magnificent Hindu temple,...

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Culture, Environment, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

In Search of the Tufted Coquette in Trinidad & Tobago

More than 430 bird species have been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago, over 170 in the Arima Valley alone, site of the famous Asa Wright...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

A Midnight Run in Tobago

Islands, I’ve found, are good for dreaming, and Tobago is a doozie. It’s a delightfully surreal montage of lush, Rousseauesque...

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Music, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

The Willard White Way

The life of an opera singer is not all glamour. The bass baritone Willard White is sitting in a blank hotel room in Liverpool, looking out...

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Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Beryl McBurnie: the First Lady of Dance

Last year, the brewers of Trinidad and Tobago’s best-known beer introduced a smaller-sized bottle. It immediately became known as a...

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