‘Crick Crack’ — The Season of Anansi Folklore Festival Launched in Trinidad and Tobago

By: Marcia Braveboy April 14, 2023 A Caribbean author and two corporate sponsors have come together to rejuvenate the famous Caribbean ‘crick crack’ stories of Anansi, on the twin island…

Pantheon The Exhibition After First Major Trinidad Carnival — Post Covid-19 Continue to Delight Many 

By Marcia Braveboy April 11, 2023 The PANTHEON Exhibition in Trinidad was born out of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020, and frustrating restrictions that crippled Carnival and the world.…

TT GETS NEW PRESIDENT

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan March 21, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Lucky Number seven, was how she herself, Her Excellency, Christine Kangaloo, described becoming the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s newest head…

CCJ DISMISSES PARTIAL DISCRIMINATION CASE AGAINST CL FINANCIAL

By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan March 10, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com The Caribbean Court of Justice has partially dismissed the case that the Trinidad and Tobago government discriminated against CL Financial policy holders outside…

T&T SEES MOTHER OF ALL CARNIVALS

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com February 21, 2023 Its Carnival weekend in Trinidad and Tobago, and the air is buzzed with activity across the island, marking a return to the mas,…

Forcing T&T to grapple with the Kings and Queens Carnival phenomenon.

By: Staff Writer February 14, 2023 A respected Trinidadian cultural activist is preserving the heroes of Trinidad through the Pantheon 2023 Exhibition on the King and Queen Costume Tradition in…

GORDON ROHLEHR, has died.

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan January 31, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com The Caribbean has lost another great son, Professor Emeritus Gordon Rohlehr, who died at the age of 80. His profound grasp and explanation…

TRINIDAD LAUNCHES GIANT AFRICAN SNAIL BOUNTY

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan January 17, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com A $5 bounty has been placed on the Giant African Snail in Trinidad and Tobago. With thousands of snail species wreaking havoc on…

Boogsie’s dream team craft ‘We Come out to Party”

January 13, 2023 Panorama 2023 heralds the first live Carnival since 2020—and Hadco Phase II Pan Groove maestro Dr Len “Boogsie” Sharpe is welcoming it with his own tune, “We…

TIT-E-TAT, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO’s PRESIDENTIAL PREDICAMENT POLITICS AT PLAY

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan January 10, 2022 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com With the term of Trinidad and Tobago’s current head of state, President Paula Mae-Weekes, drawing to a close, there seems to be a…

BLACK STALIN: A CARIBBEAN MAN HAS GONE

By Kimberly Ramkhalawan January 6, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Just a few days after Christmas, one of sons of the region, transitioned at the age of 81. Black Stalin was his sobriquet,…

The Paramin Experience in T&T- Pictorial essay

By: Andrea De Silva  November 29, 2022