Immerse, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Kwame Laurence ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Olympic afterglow: Trinidadian Keshorn Walcott
A year later, the track and field world is still in awe of Keshorn Walcott’s performance at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Just...
Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, Food and Cuisine, Antigua and Barbuda
By Joanne C Hillhouse ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Erna Mae Tonge: Recipe for magic
“Come in the kitchen and help me,” Gwendolyn Tonge would say to her daughter Erna Mae when she was still a girl. Now, the girl who...
Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Suriname
By Christopher Cozier ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Marcel Pinas: the art of presence
Because of the available flight connections from Trinidad, I always arrive in and depart from Suriname nodding between sleep and waking,...
Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, People, Aruba
By Melanie Archer ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Juan Francisco Pardo: Stories for the eye
It takes significant skill and perhaps even more restraint to tell a good visual story in just sixteen minutes. To lead the viewer through...
Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, People, Jamaica
By Tanya Batson-Savage ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Esther Anderson: “They said I’d snubbed Hollywood”
I was born in St Mary Parish — Highgate. I have a sister, four brothers, and other half-brothers and -sisters — my father’s children....
Immerse, Culture, Music, People, Haiti
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Emeline Michel: Queen of songs
I must begin this column with a somewhat sheepish admission: I don’t know a great deal about the music of the French Caribbean. That’s...
Immerse, Culture, Music, History, Panama
By Shannon J. Effinger ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Panama’s Casco Viejo: jamming in the old town
My first impressions of Panama City’s Casco Viejo, or Old Town, are comforting. It’s odd how this unknown place — I’ve never...
Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Angelo Bissessarsingh ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Houses of the spirits
In islands like Jamaica and Barbados, the great sugar plantocracies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spawned imposing mansions...