Embark, Travel, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Georgia Popplewell: “I need to live to one hundred”
Founded in 2004, the international citizen media NGO Global Voices plays a crucial role in amplifying the voices of online communities...
Embark, Fashion and Jewellery, Trinidad and Tobago
By Alia Michele Orane ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Eastern elegance: Dhisha Moorjani’s House of Jaipur
For ten years, Trinidadian designer Dhisha Moorjani worked in the retail business, selling handicrafts and home décor from India. Then in...
Engage, Culture, Technology, Trinidad and Tobago
By Raymond Ramcharitar ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Patrick Hosein: the quiet innovator
We use the World Wide Web and our cellular phones, frequently simultaneously, like recently evolved appendages. We can barely imagine going...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Show me your blue flag
It’s the last thing you want to think about while enjoying a dip in the sea, but if terms like “stormwater runoff” and “combined...
Music, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Invaders coming!
The story of Invaders Steel Orchestra One of the oldest steelbands in the world is BWIA Invaders. From their location on Tragarete Road in...
Theatre and Dance, People, United States, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sean Drakes and Glenda Cagodan ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Trinidad’s Aida — Heather Headley
It was minutes before the curtain went up on the Broadway musical, Aida. Unless you count the three grapes and two strawberries she had...
Community, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Donna Yawching ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Breaking the barriers
We in the Caribbean are a family split up. We live in our separate islands, separate in terms of policy and philosophy, as well as...
Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Trinidad Carnival — come turn yourself on
So you’ve come to Trinidad Carnival because you heard it is the world’s biggest street party? It has been touted as that and more: the...