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...
Trinidad & Tobago stages the Under 17 Football Championships
Come September, the eyes of the world’s football fans will be trained on Trinidad and Tobago. From 14–30 September, the country plays...
Ganna’s Burden
I wanted to speak to her again. At Christmas she’d appeared to be so much older; her face deeply wrinkled, her voice low and halting, and...
Jewels of the Caribbean
Meet some of the Caribbean’s finest “private jewellers”, who take pride in producing one-of-a-kind hand-crafted pieces. Using...
Woman is boss
“It was the pick of the draw!” says Monique Nobrega. Last November 9, she and Captain Wendy Yawching piloted a BWee Express Dash-8 from...
Hot! Hot! Hot!
You can call it scientific research, but I was scared. “Come on, you can do it,” one of my friends urged. In my hand, I was holding the...
A simple man
I is a simple man. I does fish, go in mih garden, cook some food, drink some rum and mind my own business. Even when the fellas by Sampee...
White Weddings with a Caribbean Tan
Newly-weds long ago discovered the idea of Caribbean honeymoons. What better way to give married life a good start than with blue skies and...
