Culture, Fashion and Jewellery, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sandra Chouthi ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Pawi, Please!
For many years, Leo Marin hunted the forest-bound pawi (Pipile pipile). This pastime ceased, however, when 66-year-old Marin realised the...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 5 (Spring 1993)
Trinidad Carnival for Beginners
So you’re going to Carnival in Trinidad. You’ve been hearing about it for years, perhaps decades. You’re looking forward to taking...
Culture, Technology, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Celia Sankar ● Issue 5 (Spring 1993)
Meet the Love BUV: A Caribbean Car
At the ripe old age of 40, American industrialist Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company and made enough money to bathe in by swamping...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Trinidad & Tobago’s Great Race at 25
The Great Race can lay claim to being the longest-running offshore powerboat event in the world, having not missed a beat since it blasted...
Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Isaiah James Boodhoo: Poet of the Plains
At sixty, Isaiah James Boodhoo is enjoying one of his most successful periods as an artist. At his last major exhibition, all the paintings...
Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
Peter Minshall: Lord of the Dance
“Barcelona has honoured the art form of a little island,” says Peter Minshall. Minshall is a great talker, but he does not...
Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Peter Ray Blood ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
A Season of Steel Pan
Two of the premier events in the world of pan are the Trinidad and Tobago Pan Jazz Festival and the Steelband Music Festival. These events...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sir Martin Bethoud ● Issue 7 (Autumn 1993)
It’s All in the Mix: Trinidad & Tobago
Sir Martin Berthoud, who until 1991 was Britain’s High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, was well known for his enjoyment of the task....