Pierre Toussaint: from slavery to sainthood
The search for the Caribbean’s first saint began 70 years ago, in December 1941, in a dark and overgrown New York churchyard. Leading the...
The doomed flight of Jesse Seligman
Dozens of flights arrive at and depart from Jamaica’s two international airports every day, bringing thousands of tourists, Jamaicans...
Saving the soul of the city
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is one of the most impressive historical landmarks in Trinidad & Tobago’s capital of Port...
At Sea with the Caribs
A square sail sliced the channel between St Vincent and Bequia. But it was not a yacht. It belonged to a craft that had not been seen in...
Learning the Caribbean Language
English is not the national language of Trinidad and Tobago. Nor is it the native tongue of Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica and a...
Joshua Slocum’s Journey
Almost one hundred years ago, Captain Joshua Slocum, in his beloved little ship Spray, sailed through the West Indies at the end of an epic...
The Christopher Columbus Question
How should the Caribbean deal with Christopher Columbus, who set foot in the New World 500 years ago this October? Was he a hero, a...
Christophe’s Citadelle
It is one of Caribbean history’s cruellest ironies that its first, and possibly most important, revolution degenerated so quickly into...
