By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 90 (March/April 2008)
Giving us our daily bread
Plas Kassav is an oasis along a lonely stretch of road through the village of Anse la Verdure on St Lucia’s west coast. Nestled in a...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports, United States, Trinidad and Tobago
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 88 (November/December 2007)
The buzz (November/December 2007)
Tobago’s waters will be in for some extra traffic this November, as divers from all over the United States congregate on the island for...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 88 (November/December 2007)
Sunscreen and movie screens
For Monica Cooper, the idea of staging a film festival in the Caribbean was the perfect excuse to combine play with work. A filmmaker,...
Culture, Fashion and Jewellery, Arts
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 88 (November/December 2007)
It’s in the bag
Ken Williams: Retrodelic Born in St Vincent but resident in Canada since he was 10 years old, Ken Williams was working in the world of...
Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 88 (November/December 2007)
The Claire Piper of parang
When Claire Piper puts down her microphone on December 22, she won’t have many finishing touches to add to her home in preparation for...
Culture, Festivals and Events, St. Lucia
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
St Lucia Jazz returns to its roots
Jazz lovers rejoice. In the midst of growing regional debate about jazz festivals that don’t contain much jazz, if any at all, St Lucia...
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
Fertile isle
The Barbados Fertility Centre One out of six couples cannot conceive. Emma and Marcus O’Hanlon were one such couple. Frustrated at the...
Culture, Fashion and Jewellery, Arts, Jamaica
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
Fashionation
Yes, the Caribbean wears Calvin Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera and Vera Wang. But it has its own celebrity designers too:...