Rihanna: just getting started
Bajan R&B artist Rihanna first showed up on the Caribbean Beat radar back in 2005. At the age of sixteen, she’d just signed with Def...
Christian Campbell: dreaming again
Tall, broad in the chest, and quirkily stylish, Christian Campbell might look more like a fashionista than one of the Caribbean’s fastest...
Fr Gregory Ramkissoon: “The basis for development is care”
I was born in Trinidad, in San Fernando — Trinidadian by birth, Jamaican by boat. My family is from a staunch Hindu background, and I...
Clem Seecharan: history man
He’s from Berbice, I am a Demerara boy. Yet here we are, meeting on a wet spring day in a pub in the English Midlands. Not roti and...
Culture warrior: Joseph Hill
It’s 1993, Montego Bay, Jamaica, the final night of that year’s Reggae Sunsplash. The high-powered lineup — Saturday night,...
Terry Gajraj: “I miss Guyana so much”
Being on the stage is what I love the most. I love being in the studio as well, but to see how the fans react to the music, that means more...
Remembering Miss Lou
Louise Bennett-Coverly, 7 September, 1919 — 26 July, 2006 Louise Bennett-Coverley (“Miss Lou”), who died in Toronto on 26 July, was...
Joseph Zobel: voice of Martinique
The early and formative years of the novelist Joseph Zobel, who died aged 91 in June, remind us how far his native Martinique, now a...
