Create Caribbean: tech to the people | Plugin
Founded by scholar Schuyler Esprit, Dominica’s Create Caribbean was well on its way to making tech tools for education available to all. Then Hurricane Maria hit. Lisa Allen-Agostini discovers how the digital humanities project is putting the pieces back together
The Just Because Foundation — a promise to JB
The wall beside Chevaughn Joseph’s desk at Mt Hope Paediatric Hospital in Trinidad is covered with pictures. One is a child’s...
Karen de Souza and (Red) Threads that bind
Today, the Guyanese women’s advocacy group Red Thread is one of the Caribbean’s best known in the area of gender justice and equality,...
The man Brian MacFarlane
Last Carnival, Brian MacFarlane won a beaver trick for the Band of the Year (Large) at the mecca of mas, the Queen’s Park Savannah,...
Marlene NourbeSe Philip: “Paradise comes with a price”
I was born (in 1947) in Tobago, in Woodlands, Moriah, and went to school there until I was eight. Then my dad moved us to Trinidad. He was...
Grenada’s brown gold: organic cocoa
Grenada is known as “the Spice Isle”, but the island’s artisan organic chocolate has won awards – and fans – among lovers of the...
School in the sun: Grenada’s St George’s University
Taking a visitor on a tour of St George’s University (SGU), communications officer Prudence Greenidge observes, “We’re in a...
Rhythms of our people
They walk on stage in a tinkling, shimmering shower of bells, and then there is silence. The lights come up. “Ta-ta-ta-te-ta….”...
