By Various Contributors ● Issue 48 (March/April 2001)
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...
Culture, Music, Festivals and Events
By Various Contributors ● Issue 48 (March/April 2001)
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...
Literature, Reviews, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By James Ferguson and Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 54 (March/April 2002)
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...
By Caribbean Beat ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 54 (March/April 2002)
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...
Literature, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Simon Lee ● Issue 54 (March/April 2002)
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...
Culture, Film and Television, Lifestyle
By Mark Wilson ● Issue 54 (March/April 2002)
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...
Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 53 (January/February 2002)
Banyan — Caribbean eye
Later, the company became closely identified with the television magazine Gayelle, which opened many a Trinidadian’s eye to the true...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 132 (March/April 2015)
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...