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Culture, History, People, Cuba, United States

Fidel Castro: score one to the maximum leader

The history of Cuban-American relations since Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces seized power on New Year’s Day, 1959, has been a...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Grenada

Carriacou: voyage to world’s end

Carriacou was made for walking. Combined with hitching rides and taking local buses, it’s absolutely the best way to explore this...

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Community, Culture, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

Feast from the East

When I was growing up in Port of Spain during the Seventies, we knew nothing about Arabic food. It was not part of the national culinary...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica

The search for the perfect patty

One of the strangest but most filling meals I ever enjoyed was the Jamaican specialty of bread and patty – essentially, a Jamaican patty...

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Culture, Environment, Fashion and Jewellery, Arts, Science, Trinidad and Tobago

Being green

Every plastic milk bottle can now aspire to great things, thanks to Dr Auliana Poon. She’s the creator of “Being Sustainable”, a line...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Aunty Pam: spicing up Seattle

Her tiny white board house and the sugar cane that surrounded it have vanished, along with the only way of life her Indian-born parents and...

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Culture, People, Sint Maarten

Out of the shadows: Addison Richardson

Addison Richardson, better known as ShadowMan, is emerging into the spotlight, thanks to the sizzling video for his tune “White Line”,...

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Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Chinkey: “We’re the best, man, we have real nice food”

I love this business – you meet so many different people, and that’s what I enjoy most. I have friends from all around the world, and...

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