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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
