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The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.

Simon Lee reviews Roydon Salick’s Ismith Khan: The Man and His work for Trinidad’s Guardian. As Anglophone Caribbean publishing and literature finally begins to secure a slot in the World Literature market, releasing more authors from obscurity (though possibly not penury) in the last decade than the previous 50 years, Roydon Salick’s recently published Ismith…

It was an evening of fine poetry and folk music - January 30, 2024.  A cool Tuesday evening on the little knoll nestled between the Chaussée..

Here we share a touching obituary piece by Lisa Outar (JWIL) for Trinidadian-British writer Lakshmi Persaud, who passed away last month. JWIL mourns the passing on January 14, 2024 of the Trinidadian-British writer, Lakshmi Persaud, one of the first and most influential writers to narrate the complex experiences of Indo-Caribbean women both in the region and…

IN an Author’s Note to his new collection IKONS: new and selected poems, John Robert Lee writes a rationale to the publication of this book:.

Lisa Outar reviews Lakshmi Persaud’s Daughters of Empire in this article from the Stabroek News. Born in Port Mourant, Guyana and living in the US since 1985, Dr. Lisa Outar has a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches at St. John’s University in the…

WELCOME to the latest installment of the Bocas Book Bulletin, a monthly roundup of Caribbean literary news, curated by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival,

Amavasya holds a special connection with our ancestors, and engaging in rituals like lighting incense, meditation, and offering tarpan (water oblation) is a way to bring joy to these ancestral deities. Check astrologer advice about Kaalsarpa Dosh, remedies and more.  

Goodbye Bay, the final and posthumously published novel by Trinidad & Tobago author Jennifer Rahim, will be officially launched by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, in partnership with the Faculty of Humanities and Education and the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies of The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, on Saturday, January…

In an interview with Caribbean Writers and Poets, John Robert Lee (JRL) characterises his latest collection, Belmont Portfolio...