The Latin music hotlist
While the Anglophone Caribbean moves mostly to the riddems of dancehall and soca, with occasional nods to salsa and zouk, the whole region...
André Tanker: Like a Liberation
I was born in Woodbrook a west Port of Spain neighbourhood in 1941. My great-grandfather was Chinese, my mother a descendant of...
The Man Who Wanted to be a Horse
One day I was contemplating the mystery of Carnival in my sunny apartment in San José de Oruña, Trinidad, when the telephone rang. “Can...
Oh What Fun it is to Ride on a Sikorsky S76A
Glad to see some of you have swapped grey skies, the odd blizzard or two, stuffed turkeys and even the holly and the ivy for a Christmas...
Kweyol Greetings
Sakafet? No this isn’t a misprint for sack of fate, so don’t adjust your eyeballs, contact lenses or even your reading glasses; your...
Voodoo pig
Even in my most immodest moments, I’d never claim to be brave. A mere mouse in the house can put me to flight; cockroaches make me...
Summer splash
School’s out, it’s high summer, and you find yourself in the Caribbean. But then, it’s always summer in the Caribbean (although July...
Welcome to Suriname
Judging from the faces and the food, you might be in Africa, Asia or Indonesia. Looking at the architecture in the capital no one would...
