The Calabash runs dry
The news that the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica will not be happening this May was greeted with disappointment not...
Ziggy Marley: R is for reggae
There’s a small kindergarten in a rural parish of Jamaica called Chepstowe Elementary School. It looks like any other kindergarten, with...
Top 10 Jamaica: land of wood and water
As a child, listening to reggae on the radio in Trinidad, I dreamed of Jamaica; a land of great adventure, it seemed to me. All that...
Festive favourites: five Caribbean celebrities on their Christmas food favourites
David Rudder The Trinidadian singer is a former Calypso Monarch and the composer of classics that include “Calypso Music”, “Bahia...
You Live and Lime
It takes only five hours to fly from Trinidad to Jamaica; but for a Trini leaving home to spend a year in Jamdown, it would take months to...
Hunting for Fidel
I am no great pillar of capitalism. But you see communism? I can’t afford it. One night of socialist fever almost killed my feeble...
New Music from the Caribbean
CALYPSO A Tribute To The Mighty Spoiler, Vol. 1 Various artists The Mighty Spoiler was one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most beloved...
Jammin’ in Jamaica
I had a rahtid good time, as Jamaicans would say. It may have been the free Red Stripe beer but even now, sober, I have only good (if...
