Culture, Environment, Science, Barbados
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 106 (November/December 2010)
The garden on the rocks
With a name like hers, you might have predicted that Iris Bannochie would have developed a passion for flowers in her lifetime and even...
Culture, Environment, Travel, Dominica
By Paul Crask ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
A day with Bertrand “Dr Birdy” Jno Baptiste
Bertrand Jno Baptiste, affectionately known as Dr Birdy (it’s plastered across the windscreen of his car, in case there are doubters), is...
Culture, Environment, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sharda Patasar ● Issue 112 (November/December 2011)
The battle of Little Tobago
In the distance, off Speyside, Tobago, beyond the yachts docked at the jetty, an island comes into view. This is Little Tobago, a...
Culture, Environment, Lifestyle
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 2 (Summer 1992)
Saving Caribbean Rainforests
The tropical forests of the Caribbean give visitors some of their most lasting memories. Who can fail to be impressed by the giant silk...
Environment, Arts, People, St. Lucia
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 2 (Summer 1992)
St. Lucia’s Llewellyn Xavier: Turning Green
Llewellyn Xavier is slicing an avocado. It is not just a chore. “Look,” he says, “if you cut it across and not...
Culture, Environment, Lifestyle
By Peter Rickwood ● Issue 4 (Winter 1992)
Requiem for the Monk Seal
The blood of the heavy animals stained the blue water around the open wooden boats. Grunting sailors, fearful of sharks, dragged the beasts...
Culture, Environment, People, Science
By Eden Shand ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
Global Warming and the Caribbean
For the Caribbean, there was much at stake when the Earth Summit — the United Nations Conference on Environment and...
Environment, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Anne Hilton ● Issue 8 (Winter 1993)
Safe Haven: Trinidad’s Wildfowl Trust and Nariva Swamp
It must be the most original setting for a nature centre in the entire Caribbean, if not in the world. The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust...