Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Isaiah James Boodhoo: Poet of the Plains
At sixty, Isaiah James Boodhoo is enjoying one of his most successful periods as an artist. At his last major exhibition, all the paintings...
Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Jamaica
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Sunsplash: Reggae to Go
Sunsplash. Mention the word today and there’s an automatic prefix: reggae. The two go together like saltfish and ackee, Ramadhin and...
Travel, Lifestyle, Sports, English Caribbean, Spanish Caribbean
By Marlon Miller ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Surf’s Up! The Caribbean’s Best Surfing
The search for the perfect wave has taken surfers all around the world. These days, plenty of them are packing their boards and heading for...
Culture, Lifestyle, Sports, Barbados
By Valerie Jones ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Why Warri
It is Saturday afternoon in a narrow alley next to a modest home in the suburbs of Bridgetown. Shaded by a rusted iron paling, several men...
Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
Peter Minshall: Lord of the Dance
“Barcelona has honoured the art form of a little island,” says Peter Minshall. Minshall is a great talker, but he does not...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports, Jamaica
By Sir Garry Sobers ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
Golf in the Caribbean: Cream of the Crop
Jamaica is very special to me. I started my Test career there in 1954, and scored my maiden Test century at Sabina Park against Pakistan a...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Antigua and Barbuda
By Sheldon Charles ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
First Stop Antigua
If you had to dream up the classic holiday island, it might look pretty much like Antigua. There’s hardly a day without sunshine, the...
Culture, Food and Cuisine, Guyana
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
Betty Kissoon-Singh: Doctor Betty in the Kitchen
Betty Kissoon-Singh, a Guyanese doctor who had practised medicine for almost two decades in Canada, was far from amused when medical...