Engage, Environment, Travel, Lifestyle, Antigua and Barbuda
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 139 (May/June 2016)
Barbuda — precious blue
The people of Barbuda are culturally connected to the sea, depending on it for food, recreation, and their livelihoods. Coral reefs and...
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 38 July/August 1999)
Sporting chance
Security around the West Indies cricket team’s dressing room was as tight as if the Pope himself were batting. The Barbados Cricket...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, Martinique, Barbados, Jamaica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 138 (March/April 2016)
Easter fare
Christianity — Roman Catholicism in particular — has played such a huge role in the history of the Caribbean that five centuries after...
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 41 (January/February 2000)
Jamaica: the Romancing Rock
Before the summer of 1995, all I knew of Jamaica was Bob Marley, Blue Mountain coffee and dancehall songs on Trinidad’s radio stations....
Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, People
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
Pelau vs Pelau
Pelau is to Trinidadians and Tobagonians at Carnival time what hot dogs are to Americans on the Fourth of July — but much healthier. The...
Engage, Environment, Business, Haiti
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Castor oil, please
Castor oil. Two words that used to strike terror in the hearts — and stomachs — of Caribbean children. In the old days, at the end of...
Embark, People, Sports, Jamaica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
Dustin Brown: Ride, Natty, Ride
The news came, as it often does these days, via Facebook. One after another, posts lit up my timeline, with a high proportion of Jamaican...
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
The garbage problem: the Caribbean tackles recycling
Although recycling technology has become so advanced that some companies can now take garbage as unpromising as old cigarette butts and...