Angelo Bissessarsingh: back in times
“He got excited about the drainpipes!” said the astonished reporter. She’d been assigned to write a profile of Angelo Bissessarsingh...
Wild as the wind: the Pointe-à-Pierre Wildfowl Trust
Nothing here is as it seems. Lotus flowers and water hyacinths sit serenely on the water, but they belie large roots that absorb, entrap,...
Carnival Countdown (Part 1)
It’s Carnival Time Again It seems like only yesterday we were being swept along on the tide of Sanell Dempster’s The River and...
Singing Sandra: One Voice from the Ghetto
Singing Sandra, the reigning Calypso Monarch of Trinidad and Tobago, is a glorious set of contradictions. She’s top calypsonian in...
In search of the perfect picture
“Have I ever told you,” Roger Neckles asks, his face of a benevolent camel lighting up drolly at the memory, “about the time I had an...
The worlds of Lawrence Scott
Lawrence Scott could be excused if he felt a twinge of apprehension as he flew to Trinidad in October 1998. He was on his way to launch a...
Not your parents’ carnival
Look at photographs from the Carnival parade fifty years ago, and there are things that don’t seem to have changed much: the layout of...
The history of paradise: on Peter Minshall’s Paradise Lost
“What you wear is the work of art. You play it.” — Peter Minshall It was the masquerade band that changed things, reshaping...
