Cyril Sammy: Caribbean Chef of the Year
It was Plantain Pie that made Cyril Sammy the 1992 Caribbean Chef of the Year. Each year, chefs in Caribbean hotels are invited to send in...
Aubrey Williams: Tapping the Source
The first I heard of Aubrey Williams was through a friend of mine who had completed his diploma project–based on carnival forms from...
SuperBlue: the Pied Piper of Soca
Rip the shirt off SuperBlue’s back. Take the sequined cap off his head. Strip him to the bone if you have to. But don’t you...
Caribbean Christmas Recipes from Khalid Mohammed
Last July, the Caribbean’s best chefs and bartenders gathered in Miami for the Caribbean Hotel Associations’s “Taste of the...
Money Man: Carlton Ellington Cushnie
A Caribbean man has made history as the first black businessman to be listed among Britain’s 100 wealthiest people. Reclusive millionaire...
Derek Walcott’s Nobel Works
for what else is there but books, books and the sea, verandahs and the pages of the sea, to write of the wind and the memory of...
Mister Theatre: Ken Corsbie
A million tourists do it every year. Columbus did it in 1492, and Ken Corsbie did it in 1971. Yet many people who should do it, haven’t....
Phyllis Alfrey: The Art of Living Together
When the Dominican writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey died in 1986, her coffin was draped with the flag of the West Indies...
