Author: Laura Dowrich-Phillips

Embark, Festivals and Events, St. Martin, Guyana

Word of mouth (Mar/Apr 2018)

The bright colours of Guyana’s Phagwah celebrations mingle into a shade of unity, and Sint Maarten’s annual Carnival defies the ravages of Hurricane Irma

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Embark, Arts and Architecture, Music, Festivals and Events, Haiti, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

Word of mouth (Nov/Dec 2017)

Why Jean-Michael Basquiat is a posthumous art star, how the Sunset Festival in Trinidad is changing Caribbean dance music, and where to end 2017 with a truly big bang: Paramaribo

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Embark, Festivals and Events, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago

Word of mouth (July/August 2017)

Long days by the beach Suzanne Bhagan remembes the lazy charms of “August holidays” in Mayaro Mayaro Beach: a swathe of brown sand...

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Embark, Literature, Music, Travel, Festivals and Events, Jamaica, St. Lucia

Word of mouth (May/June 2016)

Jazz for the people Laura Dowrich on how St Lucia Jazz, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, brings artists and audiences close...

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Embark, Festivals and Events

Word of mouth (January/February 2016)

Out of town It’s easy to think Carnival happens only in Port of Spain, where the TV cameras focus. But you’d be very wrong. Laura...

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Immerse, Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Bunji Garlin: send dem riddim crazy

From the mid-1980s through the early 90s, Jamaican dub, and later dancehall, dominated the musical landscape in Trinidad and Tobago outside...

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Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

How Machel Montano is misunderstood

Like a Pied Piper, Machel Montano pulls a crowd. He only has to utter his signature “Yeah yeah” for fete patrons to drop their geera...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Carnival Diary: Carnival 365 days a year

At the age of five, Saucy Diva donned her first costume, and though she preferred Wonder Woman to the clown costume her mother chose, she...

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