Author: Jeremy Taylor

Culture, Literature, Arts, People, Dominica

Jean Rhys: voyager in the dark

On a cold spring day in 1847, Charlotte Brontë sits at her writing-desk in her father’s parsonage. She looks out of the window, across...

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Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Albert Gomes: Missing in action

Somehow, in the writing of Trinidad’s history, Albert Gomes has gone missing. There is a black hole in the record where Gomes should be....

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Culture, Literature, Arts, People, Jamaica

Jamaica Kincaid: Looking Back In Anger

One cold April day in the spring of 1974, a new writer was presented to the editor of The New Yorker magazine, William Shawn. The New...

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Literature, History, People, Martinique

Frantz Fanon: black skin, no mask

A hot December day in 1961, the sky a dazzling blue. A small column of men crosses the border from Tunisia into Algeria, alert for enemy...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, United Kingdom

Yours Sincerely, Nello

“In March 1932 I boarded the boat for Plymouth. I was about to enter the arena where I was to play the role for which I had prepared...

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Music, Reviews, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

New music from the Caribbean (May/June 2002)

PICK OF THE MONTH The Soca Switch 8: The Stars of Soca Various Artists (JW Productions, jwcl238 ) Soca Colours 4 Various Artists (JW...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, People

Errol Hill: Carnival Professor

Errol Gaston Hill, 5 August, 1921–16 September, 2003 The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre, by Errol Hill. That’s the...

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Culture, Music, Reviews

Upbeat (November/December 1995)

Calypso and Soca The Gilded Collection 2: 1990–93 David Rudder (Lypsoland CRO24)   Here is a bittersweet journey through the streets...

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