The World of Rastafari
Imagine you’ve booked a holiday. You’re off to the Caribbean; maybe visiting friends on another island. But when you arrive you...
Carlisle Chang
Waving his slender hands to emphasise a point about painting, Carlisle Chang raises his voice slightly above the music of gongs and flutes...
The Pilgrim’s Way
On a dusty roadside in northern Spain: two journalists and a donkey. Pointed west, towards the setting sun. The story actually begins more...
Who Put the Pepper in the Vaseline?
Ever had a yearning for Pomacanthus paru or a Chaetodon striatus? Those are the Latin names for the French Angel and Banded Butterfly...
Jane Downer: Healing Art
Since the days of Walter Raleigh, the name La Brea has been synonymous with Trinidad’s Pitch Lake (La Brea means pitch in Spanish). Its...
Notting Hill Carnival: Coming from the Cold
August Bank Holiday, the last Monday in August, marks the end of the summer holiday season, and for most of Britain is the time for the...
Trinidad’s Stephen Ames: Seeing Green
Chaguaramas Public Golf Course on Trinidad’s north-west peninsula. A still, sultry February afternoon. Vultures wheel lazily under a...
Fanny Nisbet: Lord Nelson’s West Indian Widow
All the world loves a lover. The love between Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton has passed into the realm of mythology. But what...
