A tweet in need
Much like its predecessors in print and broadcast media, the Internet has been derided for a host of apocalyptic shortcomings. But in...
No bread, no ham: Christmas lunch for guests who don’t eat meat
For some, the routine of Christmas cooking has become a series of actions, performed with military precision, that begins months in...
Christopher Castagne: “Young parranderos like us, we sing everything”
It’s really hard to explain, the feeling you get when you hear the boom boom boom of a box bass, or the sh-k-t sh-k-t of a marac wafting...
Drums of the night: Hosay in Trinidad
Unlikely as it sounds, this story starts with, of all things, a Phil Collins song. Not even with Genesis, but Phil solo. “In the Air...
Ol’ time calypso: long time music
It’s all too easy — in fact, it’s something of a tradition — for one generation to criticise the musical preferences of another. It...
The long walk home
On 31 July, 1498, Christopher Columbus and his men, sailing along the southern coast of the island of Iere, are said to have caught sight...
Paula Lucie-Smith: the Right to Read
On a rainy Tuesday in June, Amanda — a forty-five-year-old woman from St James, Trinidad — sits at a desk in the Harvard Club in Port...
Ian Harnarine: Family ties
I first met Ian Harnarine in 2010, at a filmmaker’s pitching session organised by Caribbean Tales in Toronto. At the time, he was a...
