Engage, History, Sports, Haiti
By James Ferguson ● Issue 157 (May/June 2019)
Football holiday | On this day
When two English football clubs toured the Caribbean fifty-five years ago, local teams in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados were no competition. Haiti was a different story, writes James Ferguson
By James Ferguson ● Issue 156 (March/April 2019)
A flag on the island | On this day
When a British military force landed in Anguilla fifty years ago, it was a strangely anachronistic moment in Caribbean colonial history — but one that Anguillans welcomed with open arms, suggests James Ferguson
By James Ferguson ● Issue 155 (January/February 2019)
“Papa Doc” Duvalier: When the bogeyman is real | On this day
Sixty years ago, Haitian dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier set up a fearsome paramilitary corps to dispatch political opposition. James Ferguson looks back at the sinister history of the Tontons Macoutes
By James Ferguson ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 154 (November/December 2018)
The war after the war | On this day
Thousands of men from the British West Indies enlisted in the armed forces during the First World War, playing a crucial but often thankless role in the Allied victory. And when the fighting was over, another struggle for respect and recognition began — feeding a new wave of self-determination in the Caribbean. James Ferguson remembers the events of a century ago that set it all in motion
By James Ferguson ● Issue 153 (September/October 2018)
A plague from above | On this day
It’s not just a story from the Bible: thirty years ago, thanks to unprecedented weather conditions, a massive swarm of locusts crossed the Atlantic and ended up in the Caribbean. James Ferguson investigates how, and what became of them
Engage, History, People, Sports, Jamaica
By James Ferguson ● Issue 152 (July/August 2018)
Arthur Wint: long before Bolt | On this day
Usain Bolt may be Jamaica’s most famous Olympic medallist — but he was far from the first. James Ferguson looks back at the life of Arthur Wint and his extraordinary achievements both on and off the track
By James Ferguson ● Issue 151 (May/June 2018)
FIFA World Cup: Caribbean footballers by proxy | Snapshot
For sports fans around the world, the arrival of June means the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals. No Caribbean team qualified this year, James Ferguson writes, but that doesn’t mean our region won’t be represented
By James Ferguson ● Issue 151 (May/June 2018)
Sin city: Jamaica’s Port Royal | On this day
It was once known as “the Sodom of the New World” — until a catastropic earthquake sent it tumbling into the sea. On the 500th anniversary of its founding, James Ferguson recalls the history of Jamaica’s infamous Port Royal