Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2016)
The Merchant of Feathers, by Tanya Shirley (Peepal Tree Press, 64 pp, ISBN 9781845232337) A merchant of feathers sells soft things in hard...
Caribbean Playlist (January/February 2016)
Cyah Help It Jus Now — Feel Up Records There’s a new riddim happening in music today, which underscores the importance of the...
Pelau vs Pelau
Pelau is to Trinidadians and Tobagonians at Carnival time what hot dogs are to Americans on the Fourth of July — but much healthier. The...
Not your parents’ carnival
Look at photographs from the Carnival parade fifty years ago, and there are things that don’t seem to have changed much: the layout of...
The history of paradise: on Peter Minshall’s Paradise Lost
“What you wear is the work of art. You play it.” — Peter Minshall It was the masquerade band that changed things, reshaping...
St Martin: an island like a new world
Sitting at the Tropicana, my favourite bistro in Marigot’s Marina Royale, awaiting my moules flown in that day from France, sipping my...
Jacmel, Haiti
Streetscape On the eastern side of sheltered Jacmel Bay, the town stretches back from a shingly beach to a steep escarpment above Rue...
First things first: the Caribbean’s First Peoples
Long, long, long before the first Old World visitors arrived in the Caribbean at the end of the fifteenth century — triggering the huge...
