Woman business
Early, early December, Fritzie get a call from Sandy asking her to find somewhere for her to stay as she coming for Christmas. Fritzie ask...
Richard Fung: no easy readings
My conversation with Richard Fung doesn’t begin with the most pleasant of topics. It’s only a few days after the horrific incident in...
Sean Leonard: “Artists, this space is available”
My great-grandmother Alice Gittens died shortly after I was born, so my information about her has come through the reports of others....
Jean “Binta” Breeze: memories from the verandah
Jean “Binta” Breeze stifles a laugh as she ponders the genesis of her latest book, The Verandah Poems. “I got very ill in England,”...
The Just Because Foundation — a promise to JB
The wall beside Chevaughn Joseph’s desk at Mt Hope Paediatric Hospital in Trinidad is covered with pictures. One is a child’s...
Trinidadian Laurie Voss: unbreaking the internet
In March 2016, the Internet shook, when a small, fairly straightforward, but widely used snippet of JavaScript code disappeared from the...
Historic gold: the earliest Caribbean Olympic heroes
Who would dare to guess what will happen to the athletes from the Caribbean at the Olympic Games in August? Will Jamaica’s Usain...
Pastor Bobby Wilmott: Trench Town Triumph
Nine years ago Sir Nooshie became a gunman in Trench Town: he had just turned 14 years old. Thanks to the songs of Bob Marley, who grew up...
