Guyana’s Wai Wai: Friends in the Forest
As we finally broke through the thick cloud, I peered down from the small, shuddering Islander plane at the endless green forest. For two...
Mamiku Mystery
Deep in the green interior of St Lucia, in Praslin, high above the sea, a project is under way to save a small fragment of history. It...
Snapshots of St Vincent
The breeze hit me as soon as I stepped out of the airport in St Vincent. It was the sort of breeze that said “mountains”. I...
Portraits of Trinidad
Alex Smailes is a photojournalist with the international photo agency Corbis Sygma. He has covered assignments in the Middle East, Papua...
In love with St Lucia
St Lucia is the perfect place to christen your new camera. If ever an island could be described as photogenic, this is it. Apart from the...
Symphony in green: a guide to Dominica
From the air, this northern Windward island is a mass of densely forested mountains, scored by river valleys. On the ground, it overwhelms...
Grenada grace
Up here, on the ramparts of Fort George, you can see everything. The little town of St George’s spreads up the hill above the harbour,...
Oxford blues
“Step up! Step up!” The voice was loud, male and aggressive. Nah, it couldn’t be — “He must be Jamaican,” I said to Richard. He...
