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...
Versia Harris: once upon a dream
How much can our fantasies shape our reality? In Walt Disney’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora is certain she will...
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...
Rosalind Gabriel: the kiddies’ queen
It is the day before Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of National Security finally — after weeks of public panic and heated debate over...
Bunji Garlin: send dem riddim crazy
From the mid-1980s through the early 90s, Jamaican dub, and later dancehall, dominated the musical landscape in Trinidad and Tobago outside...
Caribbean Playlist (January/February 2015)
Calypso Craze: 1956–57 and Beyond Various artists With Trinidad Carnival upon us, we need to be reminded that modern soca music had a...
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...
Stella Jean: culture chameleon
Stella Jean has captured fashionistas’ hearts around the world with her impeccably crafted clothing. Inspired by her Haitian and Italian...
