Back and fort
Castillo San Felipe del Morro San Juan, Puerto Rico; 16th century UNESCO World Heritage Site Dating back to 1539, El Morro is reputed to be...
Caribbean Datebook (March/April 2014)
Trinidad and Tobago Put on your mas The Trinidad and Tobago calendar revolves around Carnival, many would say. In the years when Carnival...
Word of mouth (March/April 2014)
Take a stand At West Indies cricket grounds, the game is only half the fun. Denise Chin enjoys the party at Port of Spain’s Queens’...
No fish? No fuss
For Christians, the practice of eating fish on Fridays dates back to the earliest days of the church. And the forty days of Lent, the...
Make it new
New writers don’t just sprout up overnight. Hence the adjective “emerging,” now in common use: it implies process and progress, and a...
Flying lessons: Debbie Jacob’s Wishing for Wings
Jahmai Donaldson was a troubled teenager so enamoured of rap stars that he had his teeth replaced with false ones made of gold and...
Dave Chadee — mosquito man
Consider this: mosquitoes kill more people (and livestock) than any other animal on the planet. The Dracula of the insect world transmits a...
In the pink
The dazzling pink or yellow flowers of Trinidad’s poui trees may be the dry season’s most spectacular sight. Scattered across the hills...
