Annalie Prime: the prime factor | Snapshot By Laura Dowrich-Phillips | Issue 166 (September/October 2021) Raw emotion and relatable lyrics are what draw listeners to T&T singer-songwriter Annalie Prime, says Laura Dowrich
Tavares Strachan: hidden figures | Closeup By Andre Bagoo | Issue 166 (September/October 2021) The imaginative power of art meets the materials of science in the continuously innovative works of Bahamian Tavares Strachan, which meditate on history’s unsung heroes, writes Andre Bagoo
Grand Anse, Grenada | Bucket list By Caribbean Beat | Issue 165 (July/August 2021) These two miles of brilliant white sand on Grenada’s southwest coast might be the Caribbean’s most famous beach — for good reason
Natural healing | Discover By Erline Andrews | Issue 165 (July/August 2021) For generations, Caribbean people have used local plants — leaves, seeds, roots, and more — for medicine. But scientific research into these folk remedies has lagged behind. At the University of the West Indies campus in Mona, Jamaica, the pioneering Natural Products Institute is working to change that, Erline Andrews learns
Nicole Awai: out of the depths | Closeup By Andre Bagoo | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) “Multiplicities” — of subject, form, and even medium— abound in the work of Trinidad-born artist Nicole Awai. She draws on personal memory, communal history, and sites of the imagination like Trinidad’s famed Pitch Lake, writes Andre Bagoo
Cherie Jones: “I can’t imagine my life without writing” | Own words By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 164 (May/June 2021) Barbadian author Cherie Jones on her writing compulsion, and how her debut novel How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House became a safe space to process ideas about domestic violence — as told to Shelly-Ann Inniss
The Miseducation of Merle Hodge | Backstory By Andre Bagoo | Issue 163 (March/April 2021) Trinidadian writer Merle Hodge began her career by publishing what would become a beloved Caribbean classic, Crick Crack, Monkey, in 1970. Five decades later, as she prepares to publish her third novel, Hodge tells Andre Bagoo what took so long — and what drives her interest in capturing the often confusing experience of Caribbean childhood on the page
The Carnival photo I can’t forget | Portfolio By Various Contributors | January/February 2021 February brings T&T’s annual Carnival, and 2021 — with the physical festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — is a year to reminisce about Carnivals past. We asked three photographers — Jason C. Audain, Maria Nunes, and Shaun Rambaran — to choose one favourite image from their respective Carnival archives, and tell us the story behind it. As it turns out, the photos they chose all had something in common
