Issue 55 (May/June 2002)
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All business
A collection of Caribbean business websites for anyone searching for commercial contacts within the region
New music from the Caribbean (May/June 2002)
Carnival roundup. The latest Caribbean CDs including the best of this year's music from Trinidad Carnival
Beres Hammond: soul survivor
Even as a pre-teen Beres Hammond had the voice. But it was his involvement with the business side of the recording industry that brought him financial success. A profile by David Katz
The Queen’s Park Savannah: heart of a city
The Queen's Park Savannah is the heart and lungs of the Trinidad and Tobago capital, Port of Spain. A huge open space between downtown and the Northern Range, it is the favourite haunt of joggers and walkers, footballers and cricketers, connoisseurs of coconuts, roast corn and oysters, skateboarders and kite- flyers. A former sugar estate preserved for the people, the Savannah is to Port of Spain what Central Park is to New York. Marlon Rouse captures some of its many moods
Sweet St Vincent
Writer and lawyer Kathy Ann Waterman visits St Vincent, in search of something special — not the tourist spots or the sailing waters of the Grenadines, but the country village where her mother was born and the life she once lived there
St Pierre: mountain of death
Once, St Pierre was a centre of French elegance and pleasure, the pride of the French Caribbean, “the Paris of the Antilles”. But one morning the mountain behind the town blew apart, wiping out the town and killing almost all its 30,000 people. James Ferguson revisits the volcano, exactly 100 years on
All this and racing too? Tobago’s Angostura Sail Week
Marlon Miller explains why Angostura Sail Week in Tobago is a must on the sailing calendar. (Despite his memories, the Regatta provides some excellent ocean racing)
Arawak astronomers
Further research in Antigua suggests that the stones on Greencastle Hill really may have been used by Arawaks a thousand years ago to track time and season
The best of them all: great moments in reggae music
Garry Steckles remembers some of the greatest moments in the history of reggae music
