Is there anybody out there?
When I found a copy of Carl Sagan’s Contact in a secondhand bookstore, and somebody gave me another Sagan book on extraterrestrial life...
All business
If you do business in the Caribbean, or are thinking of doing so, here’s a collection of business-related sites to keep your cash flowing...
Arawak astronomers
The possibility that Greencastle Hill in Antigua may be a “tropical Stonehenge” dating back to the Caribbean’s indigenous,...
Andros: deepest blue
Except for the briny taste of the water and the striking absence of mountains along the horizon — no matter the direction — any visitor...
Biodiversity bonanza: Guyana’s Rupununi
Guyana is one of the few places on earth where large tracts of natural habitat are still intact. And the biggest Caricom nation is...
Dave Chadee — mosquito man
Consider this: mosquitoes kill more people (and livestock) than any other animal on the planet. The Dracula of the insect world transmits a...
Keys to the coral kingdom: protecting Caribbean reefs
A pinhead. Worth US$375 billion. Annually. This is the magical mathematics of coral: a microscopic organism, invisible to the naked eye,...
What lies beneath: geothermal energy in Dominica
Dominica’s Valley of Desolation is actually a place of great hope — if you know what you are looking at, that is. This desolate,...
