Wilson Harris — into the interior
By the time Guyana celebrated its independence in May 1966, its most famous author had already been away from the country for seven years....
Caribbean classics: under heavy manners
Ghetto poverty, gangland shootings, police brutality. Jamaica’s newspapers serve up a daily menu of atrocities and tragedies. Rival...
Angelo Bissessarsingh: back in times
“He got excited about the drainpipes!” said the astonished reporter. She’d been assigned to write a profile of Angelo Bissessarsingh...
Voyager among gods
Eighty years ago, on 14 April, 1936, a forty-five-year-old African-American woman arrived by boat from New York City in Kingston, Jamaica....
The history of paradise: on Peter Minshall’s Paradise Lost
“What you wear is the work of art. You play it.” — Peter Minshall It was the masquerade band that changed things, reshaping...
First things first: the Caribbean’s First Peoples
Long, long, long before the first Old World visitors arrived in the Caribbean at the end of the fifteenth century — triggering the huge...
When London was the place
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between, published in 1953. And how...
The artist of Carriacou
I cannot really claim to be an art collector. Most of the images that decorate our house are reproductions of one sort or another, usually...
