Culture

Sean Paul and Busta Rhymes. Wycliffe Jean and Beres Hammond. Alison Hinds and Elephant Man. No Doubt and Bounty Killer. No Doubt and Lady...

Guyana is a place of strange contrasts, unexpected juxtapositions, curious incongruities. Start with the fact, puzzling to some outsiders,...

For 30 years Linton Kwesi Johnson has been Britain’s leading dub poet, though he prefers to call his verse “reggae poetry”. James...

Ready to defend his crown Barbados Crop Over 2002 belonged to Bajan soca star Lil’ Rick, who drove the masses wild on stage and on the...

Since the beginning of civilisation, they have served as marks of identification, spiritual protection, and decoration. Now, at the cusp of...

The first Caribbean Festival of Culture and Arts, Carifesta I, was celebrated in Guyana in 1972. For the English-speaking Caribbean, this...

The recipe called for pectin. The name sounded familiar. A kind of sugar? Pectin. Something made from fins? No. Pectin, I discovered, makes...

If you’re a “been there, done that” kind of person, you’ll grasp the impulse that took me to one of the eeriest and furthest-flung...