Telling Tales: Caribbean Storytelling
Thirty 10-year-olds are sitting on the floor with their eyes wide in rapt attention, enthralled. They’re in a primary school somewhere in...
Merlene Ottey: The Golden Lady
World Champion, Ambassador-at-Large, Her Excellency, Golden Lady. These are some of the lofty titles that have been attached to a humble...
Horace Ové: Coming Home
One moment Horace Ové was busy filming on a Caribbean beach, solving the sort of intellectual and technical problems that beset any...
Times Past: Prince William Henry
Princess Margaret has been heard to divide Britain’s royal family into stern Saxe-Coburgs or scandalous, pleasure-loving Guelphs. 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...
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 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...
What Next for Brian Lara?
In April, the 25-year-old Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies batsman scored 375 runs in the fourth Test against England in Antigua,...
