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Culture, Music, People, United Kingdom, Jamaica

Caribbean Cleo — the Amazing Cleo Laine

Cleo Laine was 26 when she learnt that she had been born to unmarried parents. She’d never had a passport, suddenly needed one for a...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Matelot, Trinidad: Behind God’s Back

“Matelot,” people in Trinidad say. “That’s behind God’s back.” By which, of course, they mean that the...

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Culture, Business, Jamaica

Butch’s Baby: Sandals Resorts

In a way, you could say that Gordon “Butch” Stewart has his head in the sand, a lot of sand. So much, in fact, that one can...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Grenada

Postcard From Grenada

Dear Jackie, They say Grenada is the “original Caribbean”. You can see why. The place oozes history. St George’s, the...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Grenada

The Grenada Travel Cop | Last Word

In Grenada, all visitors know the handsomely-uniformed policemen who direct traffic through the narrow streets and crowded intersections of...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

Postcard From the Rupununi, Guyana

After the Caribbean islands, Guyana seems huge about size of Britain, with only 700,000 people. This is where the Caribbean invades South...

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Culture, History, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago

A Passage From India

On May 30, 1845, a small sailing ship of 415 tonnes, the Fatel Rozack, tied up at the lighthouse jetty in Port of Spain, Trinidad after a...

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Culture, Business, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad: The Big League

Trinidad and Tobago is rapidly emerging as one of the most sought- after locations for energy-related industrial activity in the western...

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