Author: Philip Sander

Embark, Literature, Reviews

Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 2014)

Coolie Woman, by Gaiutra Bahadur (University of Chicago Press, 316 pp, ISBN 9780226034423) Guyanese-American journalist Gaiutra Bahadur...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Galvanize: talking it through

Last September, as final preparations for Carifesta IX were reaching fever pitch in Trinidad, and the local press reported on the festival...

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Engage, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Jamaica

Bob’s blender | Classic | Last word

“This was the great Bob Marley’s favourite shirt. He often wore it on stage and always took it with him on tour.” The small, faded...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

40 things to do in Trinidad & Tobago

1. As all the guidebooks will tell you, there are over 250 bird species in Trinidad and Tobago, thanks to diverse habitats and proximity to...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Sint Maarten, St. Martin

Double your pleasure: Sint Maarten or Saint-Martin

In or around March 1684, the story goes, on the island Columbus is supposed to have named for St Martin of Tours (the indigenous...

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Culture, People, Guyana

Diane McTurk: “Karanambo was twice accursed”

My great-great-grandfather Sir Michael McTurk came to British Guiana in the early 19th century — he was a medical officer. He was the...

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Literature, Reviews

Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2005)

The isles are full of noises The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse  ed. Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt (Oxford, ISBN 0-19-280332-8, 405 pp)...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Jamaica

The Marley Tour

For serious fans of Bob Marley, the map of Kingston is full of sacred stations. Marley pilgrims here to commemorate the man’s...

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