A bank in your pocket, Haitian style
Mobile phones can do such impressive things these days that the ability to talk to another person seems almost secondary. Voice calls?...
Martha Watkins-Gilkes: a tale of two ducklings
Early last June, an employee at the West Indies Oil compound in Antigua noticed a disturbance at the pond where the company stored waste...
A tweet in need
Much like its predecessors in print and broadcast media, the Internet has been derided for a host of apocalyptic shortcomings. But in...
George Simon: in search of lost time
Like the hummingbirds he loves to paint, George Simon is hard to catch up with. At the age of sixty-five, the Guyanese artist and...
Jamaica’s Nature Conservancy: guardians of the sea
The location of one of the Nature Conservancy’s Jamaican projects has been in the news lately, and not in a good way. The buzz is that...
Caribbean memes: meme what you say and say what you meme
Mass media capitalising on topics of discussion in wider society? It’s hardly unprecedented. Take one long-running 1990s advertising...
A Green [Organic] Valley in Grenada
“Try the goat’s cheese. It’s amazing.” Shadel Nyack Compton, managing director of Belmont Estate, is buzzing with enthusiasm. She...
Akilah Jaramogi: green days by the river
“I always start my day with bush tea,” says Akilah Jaramogi. This is her time to meditate, to prepare herself mentally for a long...
