Stories about Trinidad & Tobago from February, 2006
Trinidad & Tobago: Carnival costumes
Nicholas Laughlin spends his Sunday helping build Carnival costumes.
Selections from the Caribbean blogosphere
This week the Caribbean saw presidential elections taking place in Haiti, violence erupting in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and Hosay observances in Trinidad. Here's the blogosphere's take on these events: Haiti:...
Trinidad & Tobago: Janet Jackson not a Soca Warrior
The Trinidad & Tobago World Cup Blog links to a newspaper article stating that Janet Jackson has cancelled her appearance at a Carnival party organized to raise funds for the...
Trinidad & Tobago: Rapso as inspiration
Writing about a concert by the Trinidadian rapso group 3canal, Nicholas Laughlin seizes the opportunity to rant about the current political situation.
Caribbean: Cricket World Cup in jeopardy?
The West Indies Cricket Blog links to a Guardian article which casts some doubt upon the Caribbean's ability to host the Cricket World Cup in 2007.
St. Lucia, Trindad: The roots of internalized racism
The brutal beating of a black British tourist at the hands of St. Lucian police officers is the catalyst for a rant on the complexities of black-on-black racism by St....
Caribbean, South Africa: Legacy and succession
South Africa-based Caribbean blogger Crossing Worlds wonders whether the struggle begun by the architects of the independence movement is safe in the hands of the current generation. “As the US...
Trinidad & Tobago: Respect & Carnival
Francomenz adds her two cents’ to the debate about the boundary separating so-called “culture” from respect for private space and property in the context of Trinidad's Carnival.
Caribbean: Views on the Danish cartoons
The Danish cartoons issue causes Caribbean Free Radio to remember the time she almost became “the Howard Stern of the French Overseas Departments”. And The Limey in Bermuda reports on...
Caribbean: Caribbean Single Market ignored
Barbados Free Press notes the striking lack of attention paid to last week's historic ratification of the Caribbean Single Market by the international press.
Trinidad & Tobago: Smelter woes
“Huge gashes already pockmark the landscape in the La Brea area for another smelter plant that was not discussed with the residents of La Brea,” writes Attillah Springer, reporting on...
Trinidad & Tobago: Photos
US-based German photographer Stefan Falke posts a lovely series of photos of various aspects of Trinidad, taken in December 2005 as part of an assignment to do with the Trinidad...
Trinidad & Tobago: Carnival designer
Nicholas Laughlin reports on a lecture by Carnival designer Peter Minshall, an artist he ranks “in the select company of [C. L. R] James, [V. S] Naipaul, [Derek] Walcott, [Lloyd]...
Caribbean: Plantains & film
The Caribbean Beat Blog links to a NY Times article about an ingenious new plantain peeler, and reports that the 1957 film “Island in the Sun”, which was filmed in...
Caribbean: where to put “Caribbean”?
“A little while ago, I corrected someone who called me “a writer of Caribbean science fiction.” I said that it would be more accurate to call me a Caribbean writer...
Caribbean: Countdown to Cricket World Cup
The West Indies Cricket Blog notes on February 4 that there are “exactly 400 days left until the opening ceremony of World Cup 2007“
Trinidad & Tobago: Adventure & masquerade
Francomenz pays tribute to her brother Ryan Mendes, the only Caribbean athlete ever to participate in New Zealand's famous Speights Coast-to-Coast Multi Sport Race. And both Francomenz and Richard Bolai...
Trinidad & Tobago: Say no to chutney
The Trinidad & Tobago World Cup Blog analyzes the request by the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) to have the word ‘chutney’ to be added to the...
Caribbean: Bloggers invited to tourism press conference
Don Dunnigton at the IAOC Blog reports that bloggers have been invited to attend a press conference hosted by the Caribbean Tourism Organization in New York, which causes the Caribbean...
Trinidad & Tobago: Embracing Carnival
Nicholas Laughlin recounts the story of how he learned to stop worrying and love Carnival.
Trinidad & Tobago: Faux-Westminster
In the aftermath of the Blair government's humiliating defeat over a bill to combat religious hatred, Jonathan Ali compares Trinidad & Tobago's political system with that of Great Britain, calling...
