Culture, People, French Caribbean
By Caroline Popovic ● Issue 12 (Winter 1994)
Aimé Césaire: Reaching For Freedom
Aimé Césaire, the mayor of Fort-de-France in Martinique, is 81 years old. And he still shows up for work every day. His office, on the...
Culture, Music, People, St. Lucia
By Sharon Almerigi ● Issue 12 (Winter 1994)
Luther François: Hearing The Music
Jazz is in the hearts of Caribbean musicians. Luther François of the West Indies Jazz Band hears it in the music of violinists and other...
Culture, Literature, People, Guyana
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Martin Carter: The Poems Man
Martin Carter never left Guyana. He is one of the few Caribbean artists to endure the decay of a beloved society without seeking exile. He...
Culture, Arts, People, St. Lucia
By Caroline Popovic ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Hail Mary: the Art of Dunstan St. Omer
Dunstan St Omer loves women. Remarkably for a West Indian male, his interest is entirely chaste. His favourite is the Virgin Mary. As an...
Culture, Music, People, United Kingdom, Jamaica
By Michael Church ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Caribbean Cleo — the Amazing Cleo Laine
Cleo Laine was 26 when she learnt that she had been born to unmarried parents. She’d never had a passport, suddenly needed one for a...
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 15 (September/October 1995)
Brian Talma: King of the Waves
Barbadian windsurfer Brian Talma is one of the best in the world, and has been attracting plenty of international attention both for his...
By Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 15 (September/October 1995)
LeRoy Clarke: Warrior Art
On Old Year’s Night 1970, in the fading hours of the turbulent sixties, LeRoy Clarke made himself a solemn promise: that he would...
By Sharon Almerigi ● Issue 15 (September/October 1995)
Lennox Honychurch: Love for an Island
These green triangles of my destiny rise out of the boiling ocean vanish among the swirling vapours of the sky. Three-cornered crosses...