Lights, Camera, Animals: Christopher and Leizelle Guinness
When the great American comedian W.C. Fields quipped that one should never work with children or animals, he likely had both his tongue in...
Alan Emtage: The Codefather
I wrote a piece of code that gave birth to a multi-billion dollar industry. I didn’t make any money off of it, but I wouldn’t change...
Kingston Beta: pitch perfect
Years before she launched Kingston Beta, Jamaican tech entrepreneur Ingrid Riley started hearing about techies holding these things called...
Forever lovin’ Bob Marley
Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader, ed. Hank Bordowitz (Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306813408, 314 pp) Recently, the BBC...
Revolution Tango
Georgia Popplewell on Dancing the Revolution, by Alma Guillermoprieto
Upbeat
CHRISTMAS Wrap It Up Panazz (BBLN 1999) If the title of Panazz Players’ latest CD seems unsubtle (wrap this CD up and give it as a gift...
The Chutney Phenomenon
To a visitor in the 1920s, Debe, in south-west Trinidad, was “almost wholly a Hindu town”. Seventy years later it’s still...
Jamaica Cool
Some years ago I took the Long Island Railroad from Penn Station in Manhattan. A few stops down the line is Jamaica in the borough of...
