There is an annual motorcade in Guyana for Diwali (which is supposed to be held on the darkest night of the year as it is the Festival of Lights for Hindus). This year I understand was the most engineered and lit and it was indeed impressive as the 7 or 8 huge vehicles/floats made their [...]
Category Archives: Caribbean
Friday Miscellany
October 19, 2007 – 11:47 am
Checking Voter Registration online Did you know there was a website where you could check your voter registration in Trinidad & Tobago? I don’t know who VoteTTnow is, but they say the information is based on the EBC data. It is really cool, because now I know that I am in one constituency, while the [...]
A slice of macaroni pie
October 9, 2007 – 1:01 pm
A slice of macaroni pie Originally uploaded by Lilandra. I am in Jamaica, where my room is in a strange blackhole receiving deceitful mobile signals and insufficient wireless signal for the office Dell (ohhh, I miss my HP and the dead power adapter that has had me computer and internet deprived for over a week!!!). [...]
A Visit to Curaçao
September 24, 2007 – 10:19 pm
I just returned from a completely unexpected visit to Curaçao, one of the 5 islands of the Netherlands Antilles. The Netherlands Antilles, although being part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is located in the Caribbean Sea, comprising 2 groups if islands: Curaçao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and [...]
Hurricane Dean
August 21, 2007 – 8:07 pm
Funny how it never occurred to me to postabout prayers and wellwishes for those in the region in the path of Hurricane Dean. I was worried, no doubt there, but I blogging didn’t occur to me… Saint Lucia, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica…now Belize and Mexico are getting battered by a Category 5 hurricane. [...]
Taste T&T 2007
May 28, 2007 – 3:35 pm
Well, I made it to the Taste! Reporting a bit delayed due to travel and no internet. But as Lilandra and TriniGourmet reported, we had a plan, we bought tickets and we made it on the Saturday – May 26 2007. All pictures (not with the D80, as I never had time to read the [...]
Fruits in Season
May 9, 2007 – 9:15 pm
I spent last weekend at home in Trinidad, and there were a few fruits on offer that I was fortunate to catch in season. Most of these pictures are from last weekend. Sapodillas! I love these, but I never seem to have them that regularly. Now that we have access to our tree it’s great. [...]
Caribbean Beat in May
May 7, 2007 – 2:19 pm
I have said before that I like the Caribbean Beat magazine. As a frequent traveler in the region, it’s a regular read. Sometimes it’s the only magazine I have time to read as I refuse to do work on a plane, where for a few brief moments, the world outside the plane cannot get in [...]
Cricket World Cup and Lara
April 24, 2007 – 9:57 am
I do have a food post in the works (more like in the mind!) but this is what has taken up some of my leisure and blog time. Cricket World Cup. I’ve now been to the refurbished Kensington Oval for 3 matches and was going to do a post similar to that on Guyana’s National [...]
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