Skywatching in Tobago
You can drive around Tobago in a day. You can fly there in the morning – the first flight from Trinidad puts you on the ground before...
You Must Help Him (from Earl Lovelace’s “Salt”)
She saw him on the shore, still eighteen, with the pathos of his pulled-down cap and his dark shades, his affected seriousness, and his...
The Chutney Phenomenon
To a visitor in the 1920s, Debe, in south-west Trinidad, was “almost wholly a Hindu town”. Seventy years later it’s still...
Passing Cloud
Like many other West Indians, Dan had gone overseas to study, and found his world different when he came back . . . This poignant short...
Jason Apparicio: Wave Rider
As I paddle my surfboard through tepid turquoise on the remote north coast of Trinidad, it’s hard to believe this is the same ocean...
Trinidad & Tobago: Dancing To A Different Drum
“So what is Trinidad famous for?” the teacher asked. The subject was Caribbean achievements. It was a hot Friday afternoon; the...
Little Tobago: Counting the Birds of Paradise
There may or may not be a portrait of Queen Victoria looking down on the chaps at Britain’s Scientific Exploration Society, but the fact...
Machel Montano: Winer Man
On the Trinidad Carnival stage, he is notorious for every kind of “wine.” Legs apart, he “throws waist” to the wild...
