Forty-four year old Camille Selvon-Abrahams is indeed a trailblazer in the field of Animation in Trinidad and Tobago, and certainly the Caribbean. As one of the country’s well known animators, she now juggles many hats of Program Coordinator and Le
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CASTRIES, St Lucia, Thursday
St Lucia has beaten out its CARICOM neighbours, including long-established international financial centre The Bahamas, to be recognised within the World Bank International Financial Corporation’s Doing Business 2012: Doi
After last week’s nerve-wracking episode of Project Runway Anya Ayoung-Chee supporters have come out in full force to ensure she receives the $10,000 people’s choice prize. Anya had revealed she would use the money to start a micro-credit fund for y
A sample of the photographer and filmmaker Roberto Chile "Images of everyday Afro-Cuban" opened in New York under the auspices of the embassies of Venezuela and Cuba in the United States.
The idea came from the exposure of African Descent, consistin
Heather Henderson-Gordon in early days as a professional dancer with the Julliard School, the La Chapelle Douglas Dance Company and the Noble Doulgas Dance Company.
Dancer and choreoghapher Heather Henderson-Gordon’s first full
The SHE Caribbean team in Trinidad (Anya 2nd from right and Mae Wayne front seated) last year for the making of the Autumn issue.
Trinidadians have been watching closely season nine of the Lifetime Reality TV show Project Runway with good reason. Th
In his address to the people, Holness, the first prime minister to be born after Jamaica gained inde
It has happened to you or someone you know. Traipsing through Castries city, your eyes widen in disbelief. You bow your head in amazement. Utter shock fills your being. Ladies, the strap on your shoe popped or guys the sole of your shoe is laugh
The Trinidad and Tobago Women with Disabilities Network (TTWDN) is calling for equal opportunities and full participation of women with disabilities in the national life. They are urging relevant stakeholders to remove all barriers and social injust
When one thinks of Kelly Ann Charles’s story, the only word that comes to mind is ‘courage’. The thirty-three year old Trinidadian actress is living the quintessential Hollywood tale of trying to make it to the big screen as an actress. Unlike many
Looking for heaven on earth? The warm azure waters of The Caribbean Sea have a magnetic pull that very few (if any) can resist. Just looking at the ocean will tempt you to dive right in and Jamaica has some of the best beaches for you to enjoy the be
Capogiro, a Philadelphia gelateria, has unusual flavors of the smooth treat, handcrafted each day.
Photograph courtesy Capogiro
From the National Geographic book Food Journeys of a Lifetime
Capogiro Gelato, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Made with the
For the first time since the 1959 revolution, all Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell their cars, the latest in a series of reforms that are slowly opening up the island nation's tightly restricted economy.
The law was part of a package approved
By John Fleming
Presented in Oratorio San Felipe Neri, a 17th century church that was later a bank and then converted into a theater, the quintet's concert was the opening episode in a multiyear cultural exchange with Cuba that has raised the orchest
By Katie Neal.
The WFU Cuba Project (which raises awareness about Cuban issues through cultural events), the Provost's Office, the Romance Languages Department and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program are sponsoring the troupe's visit. Inte
By Maia Chung
Quinn Garren James Smith is the last of my three sons. He was diagnosed with severe Autism at the age of 3 years old. We live in Kingston Jamaica in the Caribbean. He just turned 11 in May 2011. He attends the Adonijah Group of Schools
Damion Blake of Portmore, Jamaica, a doctoral student in Virginia Tech's Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought program in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences,
