Golf in the Caribbean: Cream of the Crop
Jamaica is very special to me. I started my Test career there in 1954, and scored my maiden Test century at Sabina Park against Pakistan a...
A Season of Steel Pan
Two of the premier events in the world of pan are the Trinidad and Tobago Pan Jazz Festival and the Steelband Music Festival. These events...
Artists Gather in Cuba
In the United States they have pop culture and Madonna, in the Caribbean we have Fidel and Bob Marley. Several of my friends: born in the...
Trinidad Mas: Carnival of the World
In Toronto, a vulture in a paratrooper’s jumpsuit, with wings of black cotton hung like washing on a bamboo pole, wearing a Gulf War...
Island Beat (Summer 1995)
A ST LUCIA FRIDAY NIGHT Ten pm On Dauphin Street, the first fragrant plumes of smoke float starward from Mrs Hector’s wood-fired...
Trinidad Carnival Preview
Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival is not a newly-invented tourist festival: it is a deeply-rooted ritual that goes to the heart of the...
Island Beat (May/June 1996)
Tobago’s Heritage Festival In the early 1980s, while other islands promoted carnivals and crop-overs, Tobago decided to be different....
Carnival in Grenada
The Dimanche Gras calypso contest the previous evening had kept us out late, and we were sleeping soundly in the cool, pre-dawn darkness...
