Arts and Architecture, People, Jamaica
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 48 (March/April 2001)
Gloria Escoffery — Miss G
Gloria Escoffery calls herself “a crazy old lady” and a “country bumpkin.” Nothing could be further from the truth. She is not only...
Travel, Culture, Lifestyle, Dominica
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 83 (January/February 2007)
Gardening in the tropics
Polly Pattullo’s “Gardening in the Tropics” is reproduced from Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan...
Environment, People, Arts, St. Lucia
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 2 (Summer 1992)
St. Lucia’s Llewellyn Xavier: Turning Green
Llewellyn Xavier is slicing an avocado. It is not just a chore. “Look,” he says, “if you cut it across and not...
Culture, Literature, People, Dominica
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Phyllis Alfrey: The Art of Living Together
When the Dominican writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey died in 1986, her coffin was draped with the flag of the West Indies...
Culture, Film and Television, People
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 10 (Summer 1994)
Horace Ové: Coming Home
One moment Horace Ové was busy filming on a Caribbean beach, solving the sort of intellectual and technical problems that beset any...
Culture, Environment, History, Montserrat
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 32 (July/August 1998)
Montserrat: Mountains of Ash
It was difficult to grasp the fact that it was possible to walk across the verandah and through the shutters straight into a first-floor...
Travel, Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 33 (September/October 1998)
Off the Beaten Track: Macuro, Trinidad
When you arrive at the village of Macuro, your hosts bring their wheelbarrows to meet you. There is no other transport. Your bags are...