Last year, sensing that the Christmas season might be the last one where all the family would be in one place, I got a bit carried away.Abandoning prudence, I declared an open house and set about
One of the events featured in the Bocas Lit Fest last weekend was Gordon Rohlehr in His Own Words. Rohlehr, who was born in Guyana and who lectured at UWI’s St Augustine campus for many years, was a scholar, critic, friend and mentor to many. He died on January 29. The Bocas event included three
THE EDITOR: In my sleepless hours between 3.13 am and 4.30 am I am thinking about Head Space. Anu Lakhan’s Head Space. Not of her undeniable expertise in her chosen profession, but in her exquisite use of words and her style of writing. It would be difficult to find another writer so brilliantly combining the
Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize winner, once lamented: “Colonials, we began with this malarial enervation: that nothing could ever be built among these rotting shacks, barefooted backyards and moulting s
This national public holiday (30 May) commemorates the arrival in Trinidad of the first indentured labourers from India on the Fatel Rozack in 1845. Their arrival completely changed the island's demographics, and its economic and sociopolitical landscape