Henri Christophe’s palace of dreams in Sans Souci
The small community of Milot is pretty much what any visitor to northern Haiti might expect to find: a few streets of wood and corrugated...
Big Bang: Owru Yari (Old Year) celebrations in Suriname
In many parts of the world, people welcome the New Year with fireworks and music. In Paramaribo, capital of Suriname, Owru Yari (Old Year)...
Guyana’s Forest Economics
Blue poison-dart frogs. Emerald tree boa constrictors. Black caimans. Three-toed sloths. Regular ole jaguars. These are merely five of the...
Great Shakes: UWI’s Seismic Research Centre
The most powerful earthquake to hit the islands of the Eastern Caribbean in recent times struck in November 2007. It was felt from Antigua...
A wild surmise: Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Few moments in history can have been more evocatively captured. On 25 September, 1513, a Spanish conquistador gazed in wonder from a...
Spice of life
Few things rouse stronger patriotic feelings than national cuisines. Every Caribbean territory boasts about its own celebrated dishes, none...
J-FLAG: Respecting difference
“ What is the fear of stones — n o, the fear of being stoned? What is it called, this expectancy some men carry in their...
The organic Caribbean way
Have we come full circle? Is the old becoming the new? From food to clothing, cosmetics to feminine hygiene products, spa treatments,...
