Arts

Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (April/May 2001)

PICK OF THE MONTH Landscape with Heron: Stories and Remembrances Wayne Brown (The Jamaica Observer 2000, 422 pp, ISBN 976-610-354-2) The...

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Culture, Music, Festivals and Events

Island Beat (April/May 2001)

Kites over Jamaica All over the West Indies, at Easter, the weather is fair and the winds are steady, the brilliant colours of poui and...

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Literature, Reviews, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Bookshelf (March/April 2002)

PICK OF THE MONTH Collected Poems 1937-1989 A. J. Seymour, ed. Ian McDonald & J. de Weever (Blue Parrot Press 2000, 303pp) Small birds...

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Culture, Literature, Arts

A simple man

I is a simple man. I does fish, go in mih garden, cook some food, drink some rum and mind my own business. Even when the fellas by Sampee...

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Literature, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Oonya Kempadoo: the excitement of writing

Even in polo shirt and shorts, she looks more like a model than a writer. Tall and svelte, with a face that mirrors her mixed Caribbean...

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Culture, Film and Television, Lifestyle

The cinema glory days are coming back

In the glory days of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, cinema-going was a grand social occasion. Great cinema-owning families — the Humphreys, the...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Banyan — Caribbean eye

Later, the company became closely identified with the television magazine Gayelle, which opened many a Trinidadian’s eye to the true...

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Embark, Music, Reviews

Caribbean Playlist (March/April 2015)

I Rise —  Etana Florida-based reggae songstress Etana’s fourth album, I Rise, bubbles with the fervour of a celebration of the...

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