Caribbean Datebook (July/August 2015)
Don’t miss . . . Mango season It’s without debate the Caribbean’s favourite fruit, and across the islands the start of mango season...
Faustin Wirkus: for king and country?
More or less exactly a century ago, on 28 July, 1915, the first contingent of United States Marines disembarked in Port-au-Prince to begin...
Patrick Hosein: the quiet innovator
We use the World Wide Web and our cellular phones, frequently simultaneously, like recently evolved appendages. We can barely imagine going...
Show me your blue flag
It’s the last thing you want to think about while enjoying a dip in the sea, but if terms like “stormwater runoff” and “combined...
Steal of a deal
My new car was formerly owned by a Japanese. I’d like to believe he or she was a decent type, and that the car was never party to...
Invaders coming!
The story of Invaders Steel Orchestra One of the oldest steelbands in the world is BWIA Invaders. From their location on Tragarete Road in...
Trinidad’s Aida — Heather Headley
It was minutes before the curtain went up on the Broadway musical, Aida. Unless you count the three grapes and two strawberries she had...
The Bajan Boom
It was a glorious blood-red sunset, the light splashing pink on the white limestone rock of Barbados. The craggy mounds to the left and...
