Beer essentials: what’s brewing at Grenada’s West Indies Beer Company
In the past year and a half, a quiet revolution has been slowly brewing on Grenada’s south-west coast, hatched from a glorified garden...
CD Reviews (March/April 2011)
Black Gold Toussaint As his father was a Baptist preacher, Paul Barrett grew up singing gospel in his hometown of Kokomo, Indiana, but he...
Gregory Isaacs: farewell to the cool ruler
Gregory Isaacs, who died of cancer in October, aged 59, was one of the most popular reggae singers of all time. A regular on the Jamaican...
The long song of Andrea Levy
On the other end of a crackling telephone line, Andrea Levy gives a short chortle as she considers the arbitrary beginning of her writing...
Island Life: the story of Island Records
Reggae fans have many reasons to be grateful to Island Records. In addition to Bob Marley’s best-known works, the label has been home to...
Around the world with the Skatalites
Regarded as a national treasure in their native Jamaica and revered by international audiences at their overseas performances, the...
Byron Lee: from Ska to Soca
Undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of the Jamaican music industry, Byron Lee was also a giant of the soca world....
Karen King-Aribisala: hanging in the balance
Guyanese-born author Karen King-Aribisala won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (African Region) last year for her intriguing novel The...
