Say it loud
Ten years ago, when Caribbean Beat last highlighted the spoken-word scene in Trinidad and Tobago, a young, bearded university student was...
Froudacity: a riposte to racism
The Caribbean has endured more than its fair share of foreign experts and commentators over the centuries. Some have come in search of the...
Politricks and power
They certainly don’t make Caribbean politicians like they used to. I remember once watching the late Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of...
Drowned
The endless rain comes every day at the same time, torrential rain that pours in sheets, accompanied by claps of thunder and flashes of...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Peacocks Dancing Sharon Maas (HarperCollins 2001, 485pp, ISBN 0-00-711737-X) Rita Maraj, our heroine, lives in a...
Melanie Abrahams: “I like Jamaica, but I’m more Trini-minded”
There were always books around the house growing up — Anansi’s fables, Enid Blyton, Winnie-the-Pooh, fairy tales about soucouyants and...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2015)
The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake, by Dany Laferrière, trans. David Homel (Arsenal Pulp Press, 192 pp, ISBN...
Death in the tropics
The British crime writer Agatha Christie was, and remains, a publishing phenomenon, with over four billion books sold, making her the...
