Veni Mangé: Recipes from Allyson Henessy
Allyson is a Trinidadian chef with “a real sweet hand”, and a local TV personality; her sister Roses is the one with the nose ring and...
Jammin’ in Jamaica
I had a rahtid good time, as Jamaicans would say. It may have been the free Red Stripe beer but even now, sober, I have only good (if...
Winston Nanan and the Caroni Swamp
When he was 11, Winston Nanan’s father pulled him out of school and sent him into the swamp. It should have been an inauspicious...
Sandra Dean: Rethinking Education
How does the sheltered daughter of a suburban community in Trinidad come to be one of the most decorated principals in Canada? What is it...
Carlisle Chang
Waving his slender hands to emphasise a point about painting, Carlisle Chang raises his voice slightly above the music of gongs and flutes...
Jane Downer: Healing Art
Since the days of Walter Raleigh, the name La Brea has been synonymous with Trinidad’s Pitch Lake (La Brea means pitch in Spanish). Its...
Trinidad’s Stephen Ames: Seeing Green
Chaguaramas Public Golf Course on Trinidad’s north-west peninsula. A still, sultry February afternoon. Vultures wheel lazily under a...
Time for Tobago: A Destination Guide
INTRODUCTION TO TOBAGO The early morning sunlight warms the water of Stonehaven Bay, the drying seines, the pelicans perching solemnly...
