Culture, Arts, People, United Kingdom, Jamaica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 65 (January/February 2004)
Yvonne Brewster: “I only do what I want to do now”
When I was about 16, my father took me down to the Ward Theatre in Kingston to see a French play, called Huis Clos, written by Jean Paul...
Embark, Film and Television, Literature, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 127 (May/June 2014)
Tell it on the blue mountain: Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau
It’s got to be their Jamaican swag. In a galaxy of celebrity chefs, Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau shine bright like diamonds. The hosts...
Engage, Culture, Environment, People, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nazma Muller ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020), Issue 126 (March/April 2014)
Dave Chadee — mosquito man
Consider this: mosquitoes kill more people (and livestock) than any other animal on the planet. The Dracula of the insect world transmits a...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Science, Bonaire
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 125 (January/February 2014)
Keys to the coral kingdom: protecting Caribbean reefs
A pinhead. Worth US$375 billion. Annually. This is the magical mathematics of coral: a microscopic organism, invisible to the naked eye,...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Science, Dominica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 124 (November/December 2013)
What lies beneath: geothermal energy in Dominica
Dominica’s Valley of Desolation is actually a place of great hope — if you know what you are looking at, that is. This desolate,...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Business, Guyana
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 123 (September/October 2013)
Guyana’s Forest Economics
Blue poison-dart frogs. Emerald tree boa constrictors. Black caimans. Three-toed sloths. Regular ole jaguars. These are merely five of the...
Engage, Culture, Environment, Science, Dominica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 121 (May/June 2013)
Dominica’s great frog rescue
Leptodactylus fallax was always going to have it rough. Of all the places on the planet for this giant frog to call home, it picked the...
Culture, Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 117 (September/October 2012)
Muhammad Muwakil: A world to change
Listening to Muhammad Muwakil can be painful. And it’s not because of his singing. Even when he does spoken-word poetry you want to cover...