Stories about Trinidad & Tobago from October, 2008
Trinidad & Tobago: Coconut Water
Trinidadian blogger Now is Wow Too recounts an interesting conversation she had with an coconut vendor.
Trinidad & Tobago: Caribbean Sweeps Book Awards
Antilles, the blog of the Caribbean Review of Books, notes that “the Caribbean is well represented” among the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winners: “Three of the four categories were won by Caribbean books.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Cricket & Culture
Review of the Indigenous Caribbean Center examines “the relevance of a West Indian culture forged by cricket.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Eye on the Prize
Trinidadian blogger Nicholas Laughlin understands that “literary prizes play a hugely important role in what you might call the literary economy” – which is why he's agreed to be a regional judge for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Trinidad & Tobago: In a Vacuum
This Beach Called Life writes an entertaining post about the fact that “the largest appliance parts store in Trinidad and Tobago discriminates against vacuum cleaners.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Making Connections
Trinidad and Tobago-based blogger Ramblings and Reason takes the “best taxi ride ever”.
Trinidad & Tobago: Urban Farming
“Like most countries in the world we are victim to the growing global food crisis. As an oil-producing nation our agricultural sector has been neglected and scorned for so long, that we now find ourselves unable to provide adequately for ourselves, even though we have the land, resources and know-how”:...
Caribbean: Celebrating Eid
Eid Mubarak! Muslims across the world are today celebrating Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting - and the Caribbean is no exception.
