Island Beat (May/June 2000)
Sports: Cricket Goes Disney Mention the word “cricket” at Disney World and most minds leap immediately to Pinocchio’s...
Happenings – January/February 2011
Carnival coming to Carriacou Carnival is celebrated on the islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique on March 7 – 8, the same dates as...
Anton Gabriel: the man with the golden boots
Boots on the ground. That’s where it all started for Anton Gabriel. The 63-year-old accountant retired from his corporate job two years...
Notting Hill Carnival: Mas and the mother country
Fifty years ago, England’s first real Trinidad-style Carnival took place – indoors, in the middle of winter, at St Pancras Town Hall....
Happenings (November/December 2009)
Montserrat marks its words Joanne C Hillhouse Alliouagana, the Amerindian name for Montserrat, is poised to be its latest lure. The name...
CaRiMi: hip hop from Haiti
Haitian trio CaRiMi burst onto the music scene in the United States in 2001 with their hip-hop kompa sounds. The trio of Mickael Guirand,...
Happenings (May/June 2009)
Cool, couture and charity Laura Dowrich-Phillips Caribbean Fashion Week (CFW) has become the most anticipated fashion event in the region....
Behind the Trinidad Carnival curtain
Any conversation about Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago inevitably turns to the excitement and colour of Monday and Tuesday, the indelible...
