Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 8 (Winter 1993)
Here Comes the Big One
MASQUERADE BANDS The masquerade bands move through the streets on Carnival Monday and Tuesday: up to 3,000 strong, portraying a single...
By Debbie Jacob, Vaneisa Baksh and Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Upbeat (May/June 2000)
PICK OF THE MONTH 2000 Young to Soca Machel Montano (JW Productions, JW 198 CD) Trinidad and Tobago’s Prince of Soca announces...
Culture, Business, Science, Barbados
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 107 (January/February 2011)
The Barbados Fertility Clinic: a vacation that really delivers
Drive past the popular swimming spot of Accra Beach, with its colourful souvenir shops selling local leathercraft and woodcarvings, and...
Culture, Music, Trinidad and Tobago
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 107 (January/February 2011)
What calypso means to the Caribbean
It was 1945, and the Andrews Sisters had rocketed their way to the number one spot on the Billboard charts in the US, where they remained...
Culture, History, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 99 (September/October 2009)
John Paul Jones: turning point in Tobago
He was a Casanova with sea legs, and he charmed politicians and ladies from Europe to the Caribbean. In the Age of Sail, when one man’s...
Culture, People, Caribbean Diaspora
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 96 (March/April 2009)
Ray Funk: bringing the culture home
I never wanted to be an attorney when I was growing up. I wanted to teach English, at either the high school or university level. After...
Culture, Music, People, Jamaica
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 93 (September/October 2008)
Cedella Booker: mother of a legend
There is no doubt that Bob Marley got a good part of his charisma from his late mother, Cedella Booker. Bubbly, outspoken, but always...
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 89 (January/February 2008)
Is calypso dying?
Once upon a time, calypso tents were considered the temples of Trinidad music. A major highlight of Carnival was a trip to a tent to hear...