Electric Avenues
Some of my fondest childhood memories involve cars. My father and I used to play a game called “guess that car” — down to the year of...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2017) | Book Reviews
The Colour of Shadows, by Judy Raymond (Caribbean Studies Press, 200 pp, ISBN 9781626325197) Nineteenth-century artist Richard...
Beyond another boundary: the Windies at the first T20 blind cricket World Cup
For blind (or visually impaired) cricket lovers in the Caribbean, the idea of representing the West Indies team was for many years just a...
Mara Made Designs — wood for life
After years of working in the corporate world, Tamara Harding kissed her nine-to-five job goodbye, to delve into her creative talents. The...
Who’s your granny?
In the 1950s and 60s, when Marxism was still fashionable, communist newspapers had suitably stirring names: Pravda (“Truth”) in the...
Caribbean “farmer-preneurs” — back to the land
You probably won’t find someone more enthusiastic about farming than Rionda Godet. In a recent interview, Godet — a Bahamian attorney...
’Tis the season to buy local
As more people become eco-conscious and embrace green living, the Caribbean’s entrepreneurs have been finding new fans for all-natural,...
Layover: Georgetown, Guyana | Layover
As headquarters for Caricom, Georgetown is already on regional diplomats’ travel maps, and with Guyana’s still-untapped offshore...
