Food and Cuisine, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Kong ● Issue 52 (November/December 2001)
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.
Film and Television, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago
By David Tindall ● Issue 52 (November/December 2001)
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...
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 52 (November/December 2001)
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 ...
By James Ferguson ● Issue 52 (November/December 2001)
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...
Culture, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 52 (November/December 2001)
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...
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 52 (November/December 2001)
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...
Culture, Literature, St. Lucia
By James Ferguson ● Issue 51 (September/October 2001)
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...
Festivals and Events, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 51 (September/October 2001)
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...