Whaling, the bloody pursuit of the leviathan is something more often associated with Nantucket and the novel Moby Dick—strong men plunging deadly harpoons into the side of a massive humpback or spe
Almost every schoolchild in Venezuela, the Bolivarian Republic, according to the late president Hugo Chavez, is schooled in the lore of the revolution in the early 19th century known as the Venezue
In the last two episodes of Back in Times we looked at how Trinidad played a pivotal role in the Venezuelan War of Independence even after the island severed ties with Spain as it became a British
On October 21, voters will go to the polls to select their representatives for the various regional corporations in the local government elections. The event promises to be one of the most keenly c
In Pasea South, Tunapuna, last Wednesday, workers busily worked to repair the rough, uneven and pot-hole covered road, used by Carmini Ramroop and her neighbours for
Chaguanas in the past few decades has grown from being a sleepy village set amidst sprawling canefields to being a borough and potential
Local government in T&T is a vague and sketchy concept, eclipsed by blaring music trucks and much heated talk without either the electorate or the candidates fully grasping the true portent of
In the rich pantheon of local folkore, it is the fusion of French and West-African identities which gave us the colourful characters which have danced in the stories of our forefathers, handed down
In this the final instalment of this series, we will look at how the ancient festival of Divali found its home in Trinidad and Tobago and evolved. In the past two episo
The diverse potpourri of our culture means that even a staid and solemn occasion like the observance of All Saints’ Day or All Hallows Eve cannot remain mundane for long. The institution of commemo
When one thinks of the term “concentration camp,” images of the Holocaust and the atrocities of Hitler’s Nazis immediately come to mind.
Caroni is Amerindian in origin (there is another river bearing the same name in Venezuela) and the great stream though diminished in status to a flooding hazard, was once the very important lifelin
Trinidad is the home of the world famous Pitch Lake, which has provided surfacing material for so many renowned roads the world over, yet right here we can boast of some of the worst motorways in t
In 1854 a cholera epidemic struck Trinidad which left thousands of Trinidadians dead, with Port-of-Spain being the worst hit. The primary cause was the abysmal sanitation conditions, which saw cess
The shopping mall craze which began in the late 1970s in the final golden years of the oil boom and defied the recession-crippled 1980s is still very much alive.
Christmas is a time for family and friends and is largely associated with goodwill and much festivity.
For nearly a century, the premiere event on San Fernando’s social calendar was the New Year’s Day Regatta at King’s Wharf.
One of the great agricultural potentials of Trinidad is its ability to produce cocoa of the highest quality.
If I had any purpose in life in 2013, it was probably that I needed to live through the year to see the second instalment of Peter Jackson’s blockbuster, The Hobbit:
In the last column we looked at the early origins of Trinidad’s cocoa industry up to the time of the British conquest in 1797 and the early 1800s.
