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...
Gardening in the tropics
Polly Pattullo’s “Gardening in the Tropics” is reproduced from Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
