Miss Bobby and the Tarantula
When I first met Miss Bobby I took her for a Trini. But when she opened her mouth I decided she was a Nowherian. We started going around...
Songs of the drum: Caribbean music
Heading to Dominica’s inaugural World Creole Music Festival in 1997, I was anticipating a reunion with zouk superstars Kassav, live...
Island Beat (May/June 2001)
CAN’T MISS THIS Simon Lee on the Caribbean’s headline events of May and June It’s hard to get the dress code wrong in the Caribbean...
Missing Ravi Coltrane
I left Trinidad for New York early one summer Sunday morning, warnings reverberating in my head. I’d been admonished not to venture...
Perfect Antigua
The Arawaks called it Yarumaqui, the island of canoe-making. To the Caribs it was Wadadli, a name that survives in the excellent local...
Oonya Kempadoo: the excitement of writing
Even in polo shirt and shorts, she looks more like a model than a writer. Tall and svelte, with a face that mirrors her mixed Caribbean...
Time to thaw out in the sun
As dear, departed George Harrison would have sung: “Here comes the sun”, and a blazing Caribbean welcome to all you frostbitten...
Bel Sent Lisi: discovering St Lucia
In a T-shirt-warm Saturday night, while guests in luxury resorts sip cocktails and fishermen mend their nets, Miriam Makeba, South...
