Fairly progressively (and hearteningly), the Turks & Caicos government – under Premier Michael Misick – has promised that the islands will create the region's first "green island". The island in question is the 2.5-mile Salt Cay, which was once upon a time was the centrepiece of the Bermudan salt industry. The announcement was made in …
Category: conservation
Saving Trinidad’s Boissiere "Gingerbread" House
The historic Boissiere House on Queen's Park West in Port of Spain is in danger of being razed, for which a petition, website, Facebook group, and Flickr Photo Gallery have been started in an effort to save this architectural treasure. Built in 1904 and designed by the architect Edward Bowen, the house has been in …
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An ocean of trouble
Whether it's the Buccoo Reef, the Gulf of Paria, Mayaro, or Cap-de-Ville and Otaheite, there has long been concern about the delicate marine ecologies of Trinidad and Tobago's bodies of water in the wake of human activities. There was more concern today after a BBC report that stated: "the Caribbean Sea is among among areas …
Dolphin, not mahi-mahi
It's traditional in the Christian/Catholic Lenten season after Carnival that fish often replaces red and other meat in the Trinbagonian diet. This often sends the price of fish up, and sometimes puts a strain on fisherman and the islands' marine resources to keep up with the demand. For a number of environmental and ecological reasons, …
Quick, easy & free ways to make a difference
The internet is a beautiful thing. Or, rather, what we can do through the internet can be a beautiful, wonderful thing. It's very easy to get bogged down in a feeling of there being so much wrong with the world that we as individuals cannot make any meaningful difference. The fact is, though, it's not …
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Music Pirates: Time to Walk the Plank
Trinidad and Tobago has made an immense contribution to regional and international music with calypso, the steel pan, soca and more. But unfortunately, we have not done enough to support these local artists and inventors by buying legal copies of their music, from which they might actually garner some income. Instead, via illicit music downloading …
Sun, sea and whales | Caribbean Beat
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2007 Whale-watching may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Caribbean, but last December saw the formation of a new organisation, CARIBwhale, designed to change that. In the face of growing aggression from powerful pro-whaling interests worldwide, CARIBwhale is …
Michelle Kalamandeen: “It’s commitment that counts” | Caribbean Beat
Originally written (as an Own Words piece) for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2007 Shell Beach is amazing—ninety miles of mangrove and lowland swamp forests, seasonal palm savannahs, and nine beaches consisting entirely of seashells, with thousands of plant and animal species. As an undergraduate at the University of Guyana in 2000, writing an article on Shell …
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