Trinidad and Tobago

Culture, Fashion and Jewellery, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Technology, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

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....

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