Natalie Reis: flamenco flame
Natalie Reis always knew she had rhythm. A Trinidadian of Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Scottish, African, Carib, and Dominican...
Volcano is boss: Montserrat after the Soufrière Hills eruption
“It came upon us very suddenly one night — 18 July, 1995. It sounded in Plymouth as though a big jet was landing. It was roaring,”...
A Sip of Suriname
It’s one o’clock in the morning in Paramaribo. I’m in the back of a taxi piloted by a Guyanese man, flying through the puddles in...
Bachacs: No Surrender
My tiny garden in England gave me few problems. If it looked parched in the summer, that was because of the hosepipe bans, and it always...
Caribbean Christmas Recipes from Khalid Mohammed
Last July, the Caribbean’s best chefs and bartenders gathered in Miami for the Caribbean Hotel Associations’s “Taste of the...
Winston Nanan and the Caroni Swamp
When he was 11, Winston Nanan’s father pulled him out of school and sent him into the swamp. It should have been an inauspicious...
Trinidad’s Stephen Ames: Seeing Green
Chaguaramas Public Golf Course on Trinidad’s north-west peninsula. A still, sultry February afternoon. Vultures wheel lazily under a...
Tropical Chocs
Only during the short, frenzied feeding days of Easter do we eat even more chocolate. At this time of year, even after the saturation...
