Destinations

Food and Cuisine, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Christmas recipes

As chill winds blow up here in the north, hastening the birth of Christ, everyone around me is happily browsing or buying gifts, looking forward to a white Christmas. I, on the other hand, am yearning for the land of my birth, and a true Caribbean Christmas.

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Film and Television, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago

The enigma of filmmaking

The making of VS Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur Though it had taken years to persuade V. S. Naipaul to permit the film adaptation of...

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Music, Trinidad and Tobago

Third World first

An eight-year-old prodigy braces a gigantic cello across his chest, studiously practising a piece of classical music. In another part of ...

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People, Jamaica

Bill Morris: a social conscience

Outside all is chaos and crisis, or so it seems. A one-hour train journey now takes two hours. Global warming is hotting up and it is the...

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Culture, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

20+ questions with Shaka Hislop

Trinidad-born SHAKA HISLOP is dubbed a “Gentleman At The Goalpost” for English football team West Ham United. His six-foot-four...

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Music, People, Cuba

Calling Rubén González

For someone with no performing talent whatsoever (the only instrument I play is the typewriter), I’ve devoted a massive portion of my...

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Culture, Literature, St. Lucia

A New World Odyssey

The decisions of the learned people who hand out the Nobel Prize for Literature can sometimes be slightly mystifying. But in 1992, they...

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Festivals and Events, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

FIFA comes to Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago is an old hand at staging large-scale events. Each year the country’s famous Carnival erupts in a whirlwind of rhythm...

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