Author: Nicholas Laughlin

Culture, Literature, Festivals and Events, Jamaica

How to be cool at the Calabash

Here’s how to do the Calabash International Literary Festival, the self-proclaimed “best little festival in the best little village in...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

Mt Roraima: house of the gods

It was a late-March Friday afternoon when I toiled up the trail under the weight of my rucksack and found my companions already sprawled...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

A fort with a view: Kyk-over-Al

On a concrete wall above the stelling at Bartica, in bold black and red letters, someone had painted an appeal to public morals. But the...

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Culture, People, Jamaica

Fr Gregory Ramkissoon: “The basis for development is care”

I was born in Trinidad, in San Fernando — Trinidadian by birth, Jamaican by boat. My family is from a staunch Hindu background, and I...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Carnival captured

Carnival is colour, the old cliché goes. Carnival is music. Carnival is bacchanal. Movement. Energy. Art. Excitement. “The greatest show...

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Culture, Environment, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana

Great beyond: Guyana’s Rupununi

“On this stretch here sometimes we see jaguars,” said the ranger at the wheel. “So don’t blink.” I kept my eyes on the red earth...

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Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Masman: Peter Minshall

It is the last Sunday in January, less than a month before Carnival 2006. At the headquarters of the Callaloo Company — in a World War...

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Literature, Reviews

Book Buzz (March/April 2005)

No place like home The Prodigal  Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-23743-3, 105 pp) “What language do you speak in...

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