Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 31 (May/June 1998)
Caribbean Football: Who the Cup Fits
For a small country, a national sports team is a potent symbol, a repository of civic dreams and aspirations. If that team happens to be a...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports, US Virgin Islands
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 33 (September/October 1998)
Taking on the America’s Cup
Out of a late-night drinking session in the island of St Thomas came a most challenging proposition. Shooting the breeze during the annual...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 35 (January/February 1999)
Fields of Dreams
The International Test Cricket season is always awaited with eagerness by cricket-mad West Indians. And with the top-rated Aussies as...
Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Haiti
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 60 (March/April 2003)
Raoul Peck: A Vision of His Own
One of the landmark moments in Caribbean cinema took place in Martinique in 1988. The occasion was the first Images Caraïbes Film...
Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
André Tanker: Music Beyond Measure
André Tanker’s death from a heart attack was announced during the Soca Monarch competition broadcast in Trinidad and Tobago on...
Culture, People, Sports, Barbados
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
Tony Cozier: a Voice & a Vision
“Why, you’re Tony Cozier,” said the rental car man. Cozier, you see, had spoken. Until he opened his mouth, he had simply...