Father Carl Abrahams
Carl Abrahams, 14 May, 1911–10 April, 2005 Carl Abrahams, sometimes called “the father of Jamaican art”, was a man with a mission; a...
Brooklyn crush
Riding over the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise ranks high on my list of New York favourites. And not just because of the stunning views....
Brooklyn Carnival: Breakaway on the Parkway
Official name: The West Indian American Day Carnival Association Labour Day Parade When: Labour Day — the first Monday in September What:...
Currency notes
Some years ago a bank customer in the UK was dissatisfied with the service he was receiving from his bank and in protest he decided to make...
Hot hot pot
Consider casareep, the cassava-based Guyanese flavouring that looks like an oil spill and smells like burned sugar. Casareep itself is not...
David Dabydeen: Guyana don
Berbice, Demerara. East Indian, European. Massa’s son, indentured labourer’s child. David Dabydeen and I are firmly from different...
This month’s reading and listening picks from the Caribbean
Bookshelf The power of ten The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar Kevin Baldeosingh (Peepal Tree Press, ISBN 1-84523-000-0, 454 pp) This big...
What the Caribbean is talking about this month
Art buzz Black and white stories White Creole postcolonial feminism, anyone? (Didn’t think so.) “I know. This is not stuff that people...
