Author: Nazma Muller

Engage, Environment, Travel, Lifestyle, Antigua and Barbuda

Barbuda — precious blue

The people of Barbuda are culturally connected to the sea, depending on it for food, recreation, and their livelihoods. Coral reefs and...

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Sports

Sporting chance

Security around the West Indies cricket team’s dressing room was as tight as if the Pope himself were batting. The Barbados Cricket...

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Embark, Food and Cuisine, Martinique, Barbados, Jamaica

Easter fare

Christianity — Roman Catholicism in particular — has played such a huge role in the history of the Caribbean that five centuries after...

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Culture, Travel, Jamaica

Jamaica: the Romancing Rock

Before the summer of 1995, all I knew of Jamaica was Bob Marley, Blue Mountain coffee and dancehall songs on Trinidad’s radio stations....

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Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, People

Pelau vs Pelau

Pelau is to Trinidadians and Tobagonians at Carnival time what hot dogs are to Americans on the Fourth of July — but much healthier. The...

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Engage, Environment, Business, Haiti

Castor oil, please

Castor oil. Two words that used to strike terror in the hearts — and stomachs — of Caribbean children. In the old days, at the end of...

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Embark, People, Sports, Jamaica

Dustin Brown: Ride, Natty, Ride

The news came, as it often does these days, via Facebook. One after another, posts lit up my timeline, with a high proportion of Jamaican...

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Engage, Culture, Environment

The garbage problem: the Caribbean tackles recycling

Although recycling technology has become so advanced that some companies can now take garbage as unpromising as old cigarette butts and...

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