“Worrell not for captain”
No more than three months after the historic tied Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, Australia, CLR James would aggressively insist that Frank...
Ice cream dreams
I may not have crossed endless burning deserts for it, but that’s only because I live in a place that is small and tropical. I suspect if...
Barbados: Total Vacation
What is it about Barbados that keeps pulling people back? “Come Back to Barbados”, the slogan used to say, and that’s what people do....
Destination Focus: Grenada
ON THE ROAD If a rastafarian is identified by dreadlocks, what happens when he loses his hair? I wondered about this as a tall, balding man...
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 1998)
FICTION The Ventriloquist’s Tale Pauline Melville (Bloomsbury,1997; ISBN 0-7475-3150-1) The Ventriloquist’s Tale contains 166 pages of...
Barbados’ Obadele Thompson
His name is Yoruba, meaning “The King arrives at Home,” and for Obadele Thompson, the 22-year-old Olympic runner, it will be an uneasy...
Ancestral Kitchen
Diners at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre are experiencing a sweet hand with a distinctly Caribbean touch. Recently...
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 1998)
TRAVEL Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among The Converted Peoples V. S. Naipaul (Random House 1998: ISBN 0-375-50118-5) One gets used to...
