A Place of Our Own: the University of the West Indies (UWI)
They’re so widely scattered, these Caribbean islands. More than 2,000 miles of ocean separate Belize in the west from Guyana in the...
Play it Again Sam — Remembering Samuel Selvon
By the middle of the afternoon a Caribbean classroom can be a sweltering place, with the temperature in the mid thirties and 45 adolescents...
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...
Alecia McKenzie: New Wave
It was a whole week before she mentioned the book. Alecia McKenzie and I had been thrown together on a journalistic assignment in Vienna,...
The Cricket Match by Sam Selvon
The time when the West Indies cricket eleven come to England to show the Englishmen the finer points of the game, Algernon was working in a...
Going for the Birds
Until last December there were 431 recorded species of birds in Trinidad and Tobago, an extraordinary range for such small islands. Then,...
Caribbean Eyes
They gaze from mountainsides, peek shyly from the shadows, observe you sleepily from steamy side-streets. The eyes of the Caribbean are a...
The Bellairs Research Institute: Finding the Answers
It is late at night. Savage waves pound the shoreline of Barbados’s rugged Atlantic coast. Emerging from the turbulence, a l80-pound...
