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.
Photography captures a moment in time.
Oil has been a mixed blessing for Trinidad.
In the early 1900s, the Princes Building (now the site of Napa) was the venue for the first moving pictures shown in the island.
In an era when even the most humble mobile device boasts an MP3 player capable of accessing global music libraries, the time when a piano was the equivalent of the home stereo seems very distant in
My uncle Julius pointed out recently that a frequently heard lament in this era of high inflation and the low purchasing power of money runs similar to this: “When ah was small you couda take five
The coalpot and canaree were once fixtures of every kitchen, large and small, rich and poor, from at least the 18th century right up until proper gas stoves and cylinders became available after the
Personally, I find the greatest loss to diversity can be felt during Carnival when one compares the mass market “beads and bikini” phenomenon with the inventiveness of yesteryear’s ole mas. There i
In the sugar cane fields of the Naparimas in south Trinidad, the Colonial Company, owners of Usine Ste Madeleine, built the largest sugar refinery in the British Empire in 1870.
For a tiny village with just over a couple hundred inhabitants, San Jose de Oruna (St Joseph) was a place with more than its fair share of trials.
On the street corner south of First National Park in St Joseph, there is a rather odd relic. It is an old bronze cannon of English make that is stuck muzzle-first into the pavement.
A little over a year ago, a motley crew met to comb the southland for remnants of railway history.
In early 2013, His Grace Archbishop Joseph Harris took the momentous decision to close the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in order that longstanding restoration works might be accelerated.
In 1904 Point Fortin and Guapo were wildernesses.
South of San Fernando, in a belt of rolling country bordering on the Oropouche Lagoon mangrove swamps was the district of South Naparima.
In 2009 I was invited to be part of a project by my friend David Maharaj which was facilitated by the University of T&T and spearheaded by novelist Lawrence Scott.
The controversy which surrounded the investigation into the theft of two Cazabon paintings from the National Museum last year only served to highlight the extent to which mismanagement and neglect
The pioneering days of the Trinidadian oil industry of the early 20th century were filled with incidents of heroism and toil which laid a foundation for the economic prosperity with which we are bl
Perched on top of a windy ridge with some of the most awesome views of Trinidad is the village of Tortuga.
People tend to forget that just under a century ago, we were an agrarian economy. The mixed blessing of the oil dollar has practically exterminated the food security of the country.
