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...
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...
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,...
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.
