Caribbean genocide
It was the Sunday before Christmas in the year 1511, almost 20 years after Christopher Columbus had first set foot on the Caribbean island...
Tragedy in the Dungle
When a hefty dose of existential angst collides with the dangerous ghettos of inner-city West Kingston, it can mean only one thing:...
Bookshelf (March/April 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Collected Poems 1937-1989 A. J. Seymour, ed. Ian McDonald & J. de Weever (Blue Parrot Press 2000, 303pp) Small birds...
Fédon’s bequest
It may be hard to imagine it now, but two centuries ago the tiny islands of the Eastern Caribbean were at the centre of a fierce...
Froudacity: a riposte to racism
The Caribbean has endured more than its fair share of foreign experts and commentators over the centuries. Some have come in search of the...
Politricks and power
They certainly don’t make Caribbean politicians like they used to. I remember once watching the late Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of...
Travels with islands
The Caribbean has long had its own version of the Grand Tour, the round-Europe cultural trip that was almost obligatory for young...
Death in the tropics
The British crime writer Agatha Christie was, and remains, a publishing phenomenon, with over four billion books sold, making her the...
