Stories about Trinidad & Tobago from June, 2008
Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica: Calabash Highlights
Nicholas Laughlin at Antilles blog does a retrospective of the recently-concluded Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica.
Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Colombia: Duppies
“The silk cotton tree…is traditionally associated with duppies and jumbies, spirits who inhabit its vast, buttressed trunk, and who exact their revenge on anyone foolish enough to take an axe to the tree, or otherwise inflict damage”: Trinidadian blogger Nicholas Laughlin is a duppy for a day.
Trinidad & Tobago: Hurricane Season
Caribbean Beat Blog has the 411 on this year's hurricane season.
Dominica, Trinidad & Tobago: The New Cricket?
Dominica Weekly links to a BBC Caribbean interview with FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner on the future of football in the Caribbean: “Mr. Warner feels that football has taken over from cricket and that it has a more promising future.”
Trinidad & Tobago: The Colour of Survival
Blogging from Trinidad and Tobago, Grounding says that “what much of this – Go Green/Save the Planet/Environment Day thing – is really about is attempting to ensure the survival of the human race.”
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Remembering “Ratty”
“Perhaps…Ratty had in fact been a part of the hotel’s amenities, a way of reminding guests that the chic, pricey establishment they were staying at was in fact part of a community…”: Caribbean Free Radio remembers the 12-year-old boy who had been a fixture at Jake's on Jamaica's Treasure Beach.
Trinidad & Tobago: No Hope
Trinidad and Tobago blogger Attillah Springer laments the murder of an 8-year-old girl, and with it, “our capacity to guarantee the brightness of our future.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Dog Lover
Blogging from Trinidad & Tobago, This Beach Called Life says: “You can tell more about somebody by their attitude to dogs, and by extension animals, than their attitude to money, sex or butt tattoos.”
Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: Writers’ Feud
Both Caribbean Free Radio and Geoffrey Philp link to Christopher Lydon's report on the Walcott-Naipaul feud that got even more nasty at the recently-concluded Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica.
