Naomi Osaka: “It was never my goal to blend in” | Snapshot By Caroline Taylor | Issue 158 (July/August 2019) For anyone who likes easy answers to questions of identity, Naomi Osaka is a conundrum: half-Haitian, half-Japanese, raised for part of her childhood in New York City, visibly hybrid. As Caroline Taylor learns, Osaka hasn’t always been comfortable with the role of mixed-race role model — but she’s learning to embrace it, on her own terms
Football holiday | On this day By James Ferguson | Issue 157 (May/June 2019) When two English football clubs toured the Caribbean fifty-five years ago, local teams in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados were no competition. Haiti was a different story, writes James Ferguson
Can Caribbean football make an impact at international level? By Mark Robinson | News & Online Exclusives Trinidad and Tobago legend Dwight Yorke recently stated that Caribbean football is on the decline. But is there any truth in his statement? Are Caribbean nations failing to produce as many top-level players? And is Caribbean football on the decline?
Arthur Wint: long before Bolt | On this day By James Ferguson | Issue 152 (July/August 2018) Usain Bolt may be Jamaica’s most famous Olympic medallist — but he was far from the first. James Ferguson looks back at the life of Arthur Wint and his extraordinary achievements both on and off the track
FIFA World Cup: Caribbean footballers by proxy | Snapshot By James Ferguson | Issue 151 (May/June 2018) For sports fans around the world, the arrival of June means the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals. No Caribbean team qualified this year, James Ferguson writes, but that doesn’t mean our region won’t be represented
A Commonwealth Games gold relay repeat? | The game By Kwame Laurence | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) As the Commonwealth Games open in Australia’s Gold Coast, can Trinidad & Tobago’s 4×400 relay team, the reigning world champions, repeat their victory? Kwame Laurence reports
The games are coming By James Fuller | Issue 98 (July/August 2009) As world-class athletes from around the region gather to compete in the region's biggest meet ever, James Fuller is there at the starting line
Cricket the way to go By Sir Garry Sobers | Issue 5 (Spring 1993) Cricket is a Caribbean passion. With the 1993 Caribbean cricket season well underway, Sir Garry Sobers — the man Don Bradman called "the greatest all-rounder I ever saw" — takes a hard look at the way the game is going and calls for some changes
Curtly Ambrose’s Comeback By BC Pires | Issue 13 (Spring 1995) After a break from the game, Antiguan fast bowler Curtly Ambrose is ready for action. A profile by BC Pires
20+ questions with Shaka Hislop By Pat Ganase | Issue 52 (November/December 2001) West Ham Unites goalkeeper Shaka Hislop
FIFA comes to Trinidad By Georgia Popplewell | Issue 51 (September/October 2001) This September, Trinidad and Tobago host the 8th FIFA Under-17 World Championship. Five new stadiums have been prepared for this grand moment, from which football lovers can expect to glimpse the next Yorke, Verón, Beckham. By Georgia Popplewell
Shaka Hislop: gentleman at the goalpost By James Ferguson | Issue 45 (September/October 2000) James Ferguson profiles one of his favourite players in English football - West Ham and Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Shaka Hislop - and discovers there's much more to him than being a brilliant footballer
Triangle treat for cricket lovers By Colin Croft | Issue 42 (March/April 2000) A preview of the cricket season
Donna Symmonds: “what she know about cricket?” By Georgia Popplewell | Issue 42 (March/April 2000) She’s Barbadian. An attorney-at-law. A cricket commentator for the past 14 years. She is Donna Symmonds, the first woman to successfully breach the hallowed walls of the commentary box. Georgia Popplewell reports
Considering Courtney Walsh By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) Younger, fitter men baulk at the pressure. The walls of West Indies cricket tumble around him. But Courtney Walsh, at 36 going on 37, remains as unstoppable as one of his own devastating deliveries. Vaneisa Baksh contemplates the brilliant career of the West Indies’s former captain and top wicket-taker
Akino Lindsay: superhero moves | The game By Kellie Magnus | Issue 149 (January/February 2018) Inspired since childhood by the Power Rangers TV show, Jamaican taekwondo champ Akino Lindsay uses martial arts to change his life and inspire other young people in Kingston’s toughest communities, writes Kellie Magnus
Go deep: six of the Caribbean’s best dive sites | Round Trip By Caribbean Beat | Issue 148 (November/December 2017) From coral reefs teeming with aquatic life to dramatic shipwrecks, from underwater canyons to sinkholes and caves, the warm waters of the Caribbean can boast some of the world’s most thrilling sites for scuba diving — like the six memorable locations in the following pages
Don’t stop the cricket: Caribbean Premier League T20 2017 | The Game By Garry Steckles | Issue 146 (July/August 2017) As the 2017 Caribbean Premier League T20 cricket tournament opens, Garry Steckles reports on some interesting moves by star players
Beyond another boundary: the Windies at the first T20 blind cricket World Cup By Nazma Muller | Issue 143 (January/February 2017) Come January 2017, the West Indies cricket team will head off to India to contest the T20 World Cup, alongside players from around the globe. Wait, you haven’t heard about this tournament? Maybe it’s time you started following blind cricket. Nazma Muller learns more
Dexter Webb: running addiction By Dexter Webb | Issue 142 (November/December 2016) When Trinidadian Dexter Webb decided to run the New York Marathon as a fortieth-birthday challenge, he knew it would be tough — but he didn’t guess it would also be addictive
Atlantic wide By Joanne C Hillhouse | Issue 141 (September/October 2016) It’s called the “world’s toughest row”: a transatlantic race from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, powered by human strength. And in December 2015, the first-ever team from Antigua and Barbuda took up the challenge. Joanne C. Hillhouse learns more
Antigua for adventure By Caribbean Beat | Issue 141 (September/October 2016) Think of Antigua, and you probably imagine lazy days on the beach, sipping sweet rum cocktails. But thrill-seekers needn’t fear getting bored — Antigua can offer more than a few ways to fill your days with adventure
