This interview was done for and published in full on Discover Trinidad & Tobago, and formed the basis of another article in Caribbean Beat magazine. It took a while, but I finally caught up with Heather Headley for a proper interview in late January 2012, just a few weeks before Whitney Houston’s passing. We talked about her memories of …
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Originally written for and published in Discover Trinidad & Tobago magazine in 2012 The twins behind K2K Alliance, Kathy and Karen Norman, have generated a lot of buzz around their new medium-category, all-inclusive 2012 Carnival band “The Waters – Seas of Consciousness”. They talked to Caroline Taylor about the story behind their designs; the journey to making …
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We're fairly tree-huggy over at my day job at MEP Publishers. Over the last few years, we've slowly moved closer and closer to being as green a publishing company as one can be in Trinidad and Tobago. We donate as many working electronic items as we can to schools and nonprofits. We've recycled paper for …
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Happiness isn't a state you acquire by luck. It takes hard work and relentless concentration. You have to rise up and rebel against the nonstop flood of trivial chaos and meaningless events you're invited to wallow in. You have to overcome the hard-core cultural conditioning that tempts you to assume that suffering is normal and …
It's 2012 (my birthday, actually!), and we've started the year with a bang! At Discover Trinidad & Tobago's website, we've just added a new interview with debutante mas band designers Karen and Kathy Norman (K2K), the ladies behind the new medium-category, all-inclusive Carnival band "The Waters – Seas of Consciousness". Read all about them here. …
Continue reading Interview with Kathy & Karen Norman (K2K) on Discover, and new issue of Beat
This is something someone on the Animal Welfare Network (AWN) Facebook Page just posted, and part of what gets me so angry about Trinidadians' excessively setting off fireworks (often illegally, since it's against the law to do so within the municipal boundaries of cities like Port of Spain and San Fernando, which often include suburban …
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Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2011 The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is one of the most impressive historical landmarks in Trinidad & Tobago’s capital of Port of Spain. With a foundation stone laid back in 1816, this magnificent Roman Catholic minor basilica was completed and consecrated in 1851. But after nearly …
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Set for an premiere on 20th October at the historic Little Carib Theatre, Tony Hall’s Lordstreet Theatre, in association with Trevor Jadunath, presents one of the most anticipated local plays in recent memory: Miss Miles – the Woman of the World. Written and directed by veteran actor, playwright and director Tony Hall, the one-woman play Miss Miles …
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Caroline Taylor 