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Printed issues of Sweet TnT Magazine

Trinidad and Tobago’s “culture for so” has been published in the printed issues and digital versions of Sweet TnT Magazine in 22 full colour glossy magazines by Culturama Publishing Company from 2011 to 2016.

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Printed issues – from annually to quarterly

On November 1, 2011, the first issue of Sweet TnT Magazine was launched with a circulation of 5,000 copies.

On November 1, 2012, the second issue of Sweet TnT Magazine was published and distributed.

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In 2013, 2014, 2015 and half of 2016, the magazine was published quarterly – January, April, August, and December.

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The printed magazines were distributed freely across Trinidad and Tobago in national libraries, universities, and the lobby area of hotels, and other businesses.

Culture of Trinidad and Tobago

The content produced was solely based on the culture of Trinidad and Tobago written by local writers and visitors to the twin-islands who shared their personal experiences about life in T&T.

Categories:

Lifestyle
Food
Creole Corner
Places

Over 50,000 fans on social media

The colourful images in the printed issues were plastered on social media, mainly Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+, Tumblr and VK with a fast-growing fan base of over 50,000 followers with the majority being women between the ages of 18 and 65.

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From limited readers to a global audience online

In June 2016, most of the articles and photographs in the printed issues of Sweet TnT Magazine were published on sweettntmagazine.com.

The website quickly evolved with a fast-growing global audience of up to 13,000 viewers per day. Added to the local content, the website features trending topics around the world and advertorials daily.

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10-year anniversary – 2009 to 2019

In 2019, Culturama Publishing Company celebrated its 10-year anniversary of publishing. The company commemorated this event with two publications, a cookbook and a novella.

From 2009 to 2011, Sweet TnT Magazine was in the planning and mock-up phase until its first publication. Many cultural stories and photographs were gathered to be published in several issues of the magazine.

Some of the recipes and short stories in these books appear in the printed issues of Sweet TnT Magazine. These books are available in e-book and paperback formats on Amazon.

Sweet TnT 100 West Indian Recipes

Categories:

Breads
Fillings
Chutneys and Sauces
Soups
Main Dishes
Salads
Drinks
Desserts
Sweet Snacks
Savoury Snacks

Sweet TnT Short Stories

Categories:

Lifestyle
Superstition
Fauna

22 Printed issues of Sweet TnT Magazine

Here’s a look inside the 22 printed issues of Sweet TnT Magazine from 2011 to 2016.

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #1

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Island Club takes away the blues
American visitor loves T&T
Southern sliver fingers
Crab collector
Guys’ day out at Salybia
Life at Milner Hall, UWI

Creole Corner:

Dictionary of TT Creole Language
Creole for beginners
Superstitions
The tourist trap

Food:

Doubles for breakfast in Arouca
Salty, sweet, and sour things
Breadfruit anyone

Places:

Argyle Waterfall
Trinis lime in Tobago
Lopinot
Beauty from San Fernando to POS

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #2

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Pierrot Grenade and his country
East Indian fashion
A day at Shark River

Creole Corner:

Language war
Maracas Beach Excursion

Food:

Baker’s home kitchen
Lady G’s food stall

Places:

Gasparee Caves
Tobago Family Trip
Nature Park in Valencia

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #3

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Maritimers on the runway
Canada Hall, UWI
Economist in the make-up industry

Creole Corner:

Dr Beverley Ann Scott’s book review
Poem: Late for Work

Food:

Cook-off in Woodbrook
The great food import bill debate

Places:

Palo Seco Beach
Santa Rosa Park
T&TEC staff in Tobago

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #4

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Curry duck explosion
Identity and belongingness
Healthy fun in the Savannah
My happy-go-lucky life

Creole Corner:

Caribbean books on one site
Study tips from an after-school limer
Poem: Excursion Down South

Food:

Producing world-class hospitality graduates
Get your cassava here!
Folksong: Mangoes

Places:

Vision for youth of Morvant/Laventille/Beetham
Breezing on the Ocean Spirit… Down the Islands
Tobago sand and sea

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #5

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Restoring the missing part of myself
Preserving T&T’s culture through literature
Danielle’s art
Me and my crew

Creole Corner:

Dropping the bomb on Aunt Freda
Single on a Saturday night
Poem: Mih Neighbour Is Trouble

Food:

A cook by the road in Las Lomas
Kerlysse’s macaroni pie
Belly full

Places:

Cool Caura River
Tobago beauty beyond words
La Brea Pitch Lake
Rural Piparo
Scenes in the city

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #6

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Act it out
Strange encounter
Nail artist – Kelly Baptiste

Creole Corner:

Local novelist: Donna Mae Greaves
Sweet TnT Magazine forums
Poem: What Went Wrong!
Book launch: Ah Trinbago Ting

Food:

Doubles man
High tea Trini style
Long time snacks

Places:

Surfs up in Maracas Beach
The Toco Lighthouse
Trip to Brasso Seco Waterfall
The Devil’s Woodyard
Top view on San Fernando Hill
Gulf City – then and now
Queen Street, Arima
Ready! Aim! Fire! – Fort James, Tobago
What to do when in Tobago
First visit to Salt Pond
What a sight at Matura Beach

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #7

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Christmas tree at Trincity Mall
Los Alumnos de San Juan
Scents of Trinbago Christmas
Halloween in Tobago
Love Thy Neighbour like a Trini would
Look good, feel good
Fashion designer’s unique touch
Joy of December
Boat racing from Trinidad and Tobago
All dressed up for Christmas

Creole Corner:

Uncle’s old cricket boots
The Coconut Counting Man
Veil of Punishment

Food:

Christmas foods
Dining on top of Port of Spain
Reshma’s Methai
Dining at TTHTI
Eat ah food

Places:

Columbus Bay: My home
North Coast drive
Landmarks

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #8

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Making mas with Zigwa
COSTAAT’s “devil” ready for Carnival 2014
Adventures in paradise
Protecting the family
Jab Jab and Jab Molassie combined
The proposal at Pigeon Point Beach
Hand of hope
Fresh flowers for me
Jazz Artistes on the Greens
The world spins in Trinidad
Have you ever been on a music truck?

Creole Corner:

Maxi taxi etiquette and tips
Fiction: Behind de mountain
Poem: It inside you yuh know
Poem: The Calypso
Poem: Be My Valentine
Poem: Why Study in Trinidad
Poem: Giraffe
Poem: Rats

Food:

Roucou
Nutrition secrets
Trinbago woman: I take my speech and food wherever I go
Vendors that make us smile
Mammy apple

Places:

Merry-go-round at MovieTowne
Relaxing vibe in Tobago
Scenes in Port of Spain
The thrill of Toco Beach

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #9

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Master of Fades
Hollywood bound Ealisa
Games we used to play
Shows we used to watch
Canadian mirrors at Maracas
Easter activities for families
Promoting a clean environment all year
Wake up, Trinbago!
Martial arts changed my child
Chipper and “De Valley”
Colourful kites in the sky

Creole Corner:

Easter Excitement
Fashion Week in Trinidad
Long Time Crime
Ah Soucouyant Suck Meh
The Mango Tree

Food:

Breadfruit tree in Barataria
Fruitilicious
Trini Treats, NY, wins food award

Places:

Be fast and furious on the water
“Mermaids” in Matura
Poui tree on the Beetham
Laventile art
Beautiful Buccoo Bay in Tobago
Zoorific time

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #10

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

My first cinema date
Graduation time
Work out, shop, dye your hair
Tobago crew
Neil: I can make anything with leather
Art in the Savannah
For the silent victims
An agent of change
Spreading joy with snakes

Creole Corner:

Launch of “Manatee has a Question”
Poem: Remembering the seasons
You’re a Trinbagonian if…

Food:

French food with a Trinidadian flavour
Roti shop in London
The sweets that make our celebrations
Watermelon: A great big juicy feast
Chow time

Places:

Hike to Paria Waterfalls
Rush hour at City Gate
Serene Knolly’s Tunnel
Strolling down Princes Town
A day at the zoo

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #11

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Chad Wilson taking the perfect shot
“One Love” on the Avenue
Independence Day quiz
Glad to be home
Ed ul Fitr – a family festivity
Family funtivities
Great outdoor water parks
Addressing rape, prostitution, child abuse

Creole Corner:

Poem: Trini Woman
A Bad Hair Day
Is Trini We Typing
Talk Nah
Poem: Eid

Food:

Tasty Eid treats
Yogurt: Good for the health and sweet for the tummy!
Fish broth
Turn up the heat
Pomegranate perfection

Places:

El Dorado scenes
Busy Tunapuna
The beaches of South Trinidad

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #12

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Republic Day quiz
Mehndi – yesteryear’s body art of today
Family adventure to Matelot
Arima drifters
A boat cruise kind of life
Artist Richard Rampersad
Sommer nails it
Independence Day celebrations

Creole Corner:

Poem: I Cannot Swim, My Dear
Poem: Righteous Robbery
The Dream
Signs you find in maxis

Food:

Mini mart and meat depot in Arouca
Chef Kel with his team
Souse
Arima soup man
Tableland food fiesta

Places:

Scenes around UWI
The Oval
On Wrightson Road

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #13

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

You know it’s Christmas when…
Christmas at Trincity Mall
Birthday lime at Clifton Hill
Talented Joyce
Congratulations, Kielon
Date night
Fun at Chuck E Cheese
Independence Day celebrations

Creole Corner:

Poem: Folklore?
Anita’s paradise
Poem: Christmas Oh Christmas

Food:

Ready to eat
Christmas with Marina
Food trucks in San Fernando
Green fig for the Trini soul
Tableland food fiesta

Places:

Chip chip – jewels of Manzanilla
Manzanilla scenes
Cruising “Down de Islands”
Chacachacare – come to my island
“Down de Islands” scenes

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #14

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Faces of Carnival
La ta Caille Kidz founder’s dream
Valentine gifts on a budget
A gentleman’s advice to men
On the road
The allure of a Trini woman
Musician Juliet Robin’s story
Cricket, sweet cricket

Creole Corner:

The accent thing
Ole Mas
Now that’s superstitious
The one that got away

Food:

Trinbago food in Fort Lauderdale, USA
Who is a pepper mouth like me?
China’s alive in Trinidad

Places:

From Trinidad to China and back
Carnival on “de Avenue”
Our journey to Biche
Eastern Main Road in Manzanilla
IJump on Tragarete Road
Animals at the Emperor Valley Zoo

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #15

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Camping for Easter
Easter activities for the family
Let’s go fly a kite
Kite flying season
Gospel music at Little Carib Theatre
Dangerous beauty of a bushfire
All that jazz in Tobago
Curepe hairdresser, Theresa
The selfless principal, Kezia
My lovie pies
Meet Cici, TTSPCA kitten

Creole Corner:

Beverley Ann Scott: The Stolen Cascadura and Is America She Gone?
Poem: My Dog Life
Poem: Man and Me

Food:

So, the man could “bubble a pot”?
Cuisine In Ah Pot
Good Friday foods

Places:

Easter fun at Maracas
Art at the Oval
Wondrous display on Tragarete Road

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #16

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

The big day
In love since 2000
Matching couples with advertisers
Birthday fiesta at Rango’s
Honouring the great fathers
A hike to remember
Interview with Barber-Q
UWI graduate to launch first art exhibition
Mahalia – A Gospel Musical a success
Caterpillar invasion

Local Writings:

When teachers used to run things
Story – The Lord is my Shepherd
Interview with author from Lion to Lamb
Story – The messenger
Poem – An Artist Reborn

Food:

Grow your own food – tomato and pumpkin
Sunday lunch at Ramona’s
Friday food
Corpus Christi a day for planting

Places:

Scenes from Fort King George
Scenes from Moruga
Scenes from Port of Spain
Scenes from Tacarigua

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #17

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Winta in Trinidad
Visit to the zoo
Electric Breakers dancing against crime
Down memory lane to Granville Beach
Summer splashing in Debe
Caiman in the backyard
Pet-sitting Mother Hen
Iftar – a Muslim gathering to break fast
August events – Emancipation, Independence, Great Race in Tobago

Local Writings:

Commentary – a look back on July/August vacation
Interview with journalist Ann Marie Amante
Short Story – The Great Julie Mango Battle

Food:

Down memory lane with chow and chicken
Winta in Trinidad enjoying local cuisines
Grow your own food – melongene and celery

Places:

Lookout at Mount St Benedict
Scenes Tobago
Temple in the sea in Waterloo
Statues in Port of Spain and San Fernando

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #18

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Cycling fun for everyone
Entertaining night of music and dance
Central’s carefree crapaud
My dad, the young farmer
The farm bird
Trip to Punta Cana representing T&T
Women in Art exhibition
Red carpet worldwide premiere in Port of Spain
Anissa Prescott: So much to see, so much to do

Local Writings:

Poem: The Trysting Place
Poem: Only For A Moment
Poem: Flowing
Poem: My Botanical Gardens
My weakness for Julie and Paulover mangoes

Food:

Proud to make fudge and toolum
Recipe – coconut and pineapple fudge
Grow your own food – lime
Sno-cone man in town
Successful clash of the spoons
A grilled treat at Abraham’s

Places:

Trip to Manzanilla
Natural cathedral in Chaguaramas
Uptown scenes
Downtown scenes

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #19

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Parang in Lopinot and Chaguaramas
To do list for Christmas
Glamour galore at Hasely Crawford Stadium
In love with doing makeup
Thoughtful handmade gifts
Accessories for sale at the Stadium
Vox pop: Have a Trini Christmas
6 simple ways to maximise your holiday budget
Drive safely after paranging
Reunited – Class of ’97 at “Eldo Brown”
Phones and tablets under the tree
Iguana in my backyard

Local Writings:

“Angel Hair” on a Mango Branch
Books to look out for this Christmas
Tricia David – singer/songwriter/poet on a mission

Food:

Grow your own food – sorrel
Love is my secret ingredient
My first try at hops bread
Scrumptious fruit cakes for all my customers
Lentil Cakes and Buffalo Cups

Places:

Parlatuvier a must-stop place in Tobago
Picturesque Vessigny
Runaway to Salybia

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #20

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Conserving water during the Dry Season
Real Carnival babies
Kiddies ready for 2016 Carnival!
Beauties raise AIDS awareness at UWI
Coping with a tight budget
Junior Panorama at the Savannah
Buying a new phone
Plan for a successful Carnival

Local Writings:

Teaching poetry to teenagers
Calling all writers and readers
From the catalogue of caribbeanbooks.org

Food:

Grow your own food – pigeon peas
My creative sister’s sushi rolls
Pelau and cole slaw
Pigeon peas lunch
Rum chow for feters to enjoy
Cake decorating is my passion

Places:

San Fernando Hill a natural beauty
Sweet sweet Tobago
Family trip to Tobago
Moko jumbies in South Quay

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #21

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Kite flying in Aranguez
Pro footballers in the making
Special Easter treat at Queen’s Park Cricket Club
Join the dragon boat racers in North East Trinidad
Why do I need insurance?
Twin Towers
Speeding up a slow computer
Business is easier with hivesource.me
Everyone should know about Sickle Cell
Pushing the boundaries of art

Local Writings:

Teaching the distracted student
Playing Target
Support for authors

Food:

Grow your own food – pimento
Farmer’s market at Queen’s Park Savannah
Tasty fish dishes

Places:

The mystery of Tobago
Unspoilt Columbus Bay
Around the Savannah
Kite flying in Aranguez
Family trip to Tyrico Beach

Sweet TnT Magazine Issue #22

HEADLINES

Lifestyle:

Taking a dip at Manzanilla Beach
My daddy!
Families at Trincity Mall
Pan, cello, trumpet, violin in Tunapuna
Benoit Academy of Steelpan in Diego Martin
“HomeGrown” CD launch
I am a woman – I deserve parity
Rule no.1: Respect your elders
My handmade is heart-made
“Brides and grooms” at Trincity Mall
Increasing your phone’s battery life
Our life cycles and the “ifs” in life

Local Writings:

Food:

Grow your own food – paw paw
Chow time: Mango and chenette
Split peas soup touches the spot
Tasty cocoa pod
Dark chocolate cravings!

Teaching the disruptive student
Love, Simba
Parents, let your children read to you
Give literature a chance

Places:

Behold, the Fort!
Manzanilla beauty
A walk through Palmiste Park
Breathtaking views of No Man’s Land
Chicken hawk in Petit Bourg

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