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Brian Lara in Manchester, England, April 2006. Photo by Georgia Popplewell, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED). Thirty years ago, at about a quarter to noon on April 18 1994, young Trinidadian cricketer Brian Lara, quickly garnering a reputation for his skill as a left-handed batsman, was in the crease at the Antigua Recreation Ground. The West Indies were playing a Test series against England. Chris Lewis bowled short, and with one whooping crack of his bat, Lara broke Sir Garfield Sobers’ record of the most runs in a Test match — 365 against Pakistan in Jamaica in 1958 — by playing the ball all the way ...
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The flowering Talipot Palm at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Port of Spain, Trinidad, April 15, 2024. Photo by Janine Mendes-Franco, used with permission. On the southern perimeter of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a palm tree is blossoming — but it's not just any ordinary tree. It's the flowering Talipot Palm (Corypha umbraculifera), known for having the largest inflorescence in the world. A bigger natural cluster of flowers on a stem you'll never see. Native to eastern and southern India as well as Sri Lanka, it is also called the Century Palm. As such, there is a miscon...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. On the night of April 8, in a house in Arouca, a town situated along Trinidad's east-west corridor, four-year-old Amarah Lallitte was found decapitated. Shortly before, her mother had fled the house, running to the nearby police station to report that her male partner, who is not Lalitte's biological father, had attacked her. She reportedly tried to get her daughter to leave with her, but told the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, “She thought we were playing, so she was laughing. When I called her to come, she was not coming, she just stayed on the bed. So I had no cho...
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Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé. Photo by MEDEF on Flickr, (CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED). Renowned Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, celebrated for her novels, plays and essays that delve into the multi-faceted and often nuanced layers of race, colonialism, gender, and cultural identity, passed away on the night of April 1 at a hospital outside Marseille, France. She was 90 years old. Rest in power #MaryseCondé (here pictured by #HenryRoy in #RegardsNoirs)#RiP pic.twitter.com/tWGWRURujj — Sarah Lawan (@SarahLawan) April 2, 2024 Laurant Laffont, her editor of many years, told The Associated Press that C...
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Feature image of malnourished puppy via Canva Pro. In April 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the black dog of Embacadere, a town on the outskirts of Trinidad’s southern city of San Fernando, pierced the hearts and minds of Trinidad and Tobago social media users after a video of three men brutally performing its hanging emerged on Facebook. Outrage was swift and widespread, with many activists calling for harsh punishment over what they felt was a needlessly cruel and despicable act. It was not, however, the only one. The websites and social media channels of any local animal N...
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Masquerader Sherry-Ann Guy (L) and Carnival designer Peter Minshall (R) with some of the trophies honouring the costume ‘From the Land of the Hummingbird,’ one of his presentations for the Trinidad and Tobago 1974 Carnival season. Capture of existing archival photo by Janine Mendes-Franco, used with permission. Fifty years ago, during Trinidad and Tobago's 1974 Carnival season, designer Peter Minshall forever changed the collective sensibility regarding what was possible with masquerade. It wasn't that the stage at the Queen's Park Savannah — the mecca of the Carnival experience in the heart o...
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UK-born, Jamaica-based educator, writer and theatre director Brian Heap. Photo previously supplied by Heap; used with permission. On March 24, England-born educator and stalwart of Jamaican theatre Brian Heap died at the age of 73. The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reported that he “had been quietly ailing since September last year [and] passed away while in hospice care.” Heap is being mourned by many in Jamaica’s theatre world and beyond. In 2020, he was selected as the Caribbean regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his powerful story of grief and family entitled...
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Image of Guyana's Kaiteur Falls and surrounding rainforest via Canva Pro. By Vishani Ragobeer This story was first published on the Cari-Bois Environmental News Network. An edited version appears below as part of a content-sharing agreement. Despite the large oil find that has been a boon to Guyana's economy, the nation is still striving for economic diversification. One strategy involves expanding its ecotourism sector by capitalising on its expansive forest cover. Guyana is situated along the northern coast of South America. Its rainforests — with over 18 million hectares of trees — are home...
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Beloved Trinbagonian nuts vendor Keith ‘Jumbo’ Martin, at Woodford Square in Port of Spain, August 11, 2023. Photo by Maria Nunes, used with permission. If you're a cricket fan and have seen a match in the Caribbean, Keith “Jumbo” Martin would be a familiar name — and face. As the cameras panned away from the field and into the crowd during slow moments of the match, international sports commentators would sometimes take to talking about Jumbo as he pelted his packs of warm peanuts — plain, salted or honey-roasted — into the stands with razor-sharp precision. His natural charisma added such lo...
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Screenshot of Vbyz Kartel (Adidja Palmer) taken from the YouTube video by Dancehall Agenda entitled ‘Vybz Kartel Final 24 Hours In Prison Possibly.’ At 11 o'clock on the morning of March 14, the Jamaican media waited breathlessly for the UK Privy Council to present its ruling on the appeal in the case of 48-year-old dancehall deejay Adija Palmer (stage name, Vybz Kartel) and three associates (Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John), hoping to be the first to break the news. Almost exactly 10 years earlier, on March 13, 2014, the four had been found guilty of the 2011 murder of Clive “...
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