Woman Power: Jamaica’s Etana
In Jamaica’s crowded musical landscape, Etana has stood out from the moment she first stepped on a stage. It’s not just her flawless...
Early Blooming: Bahamian designer Phylicia Ellis
Speak to any fashion-forward woman in the Bahamas, and one of the first names she’ll mention is Phylicia Ellis. Only twenty-four years...
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2013)
What Things Are True, by Jackie Hinkson (Paria Publishing Company, 316 pp, ISBN 9789768054968) Tempting as it is to term this book...
Caribbean Playlist (May/June 2013)
Santiman, by The Creole Choir of Cuba (Real World) With this follow-up to their 2011 album Tande-La, the Creole Choir of Cuba...
Oonya Kempadoo: “I keep writing even when I’m trying not to”
Growing up in Guyana, I did live in a village like the one my first novel Buxton Spice is set in, and the political background was a huge...
Waiting for the monsoon
August. A sweltering England. I pack a pair of floral Wellington boots and fly to Bombay. “Come to visit during the monsoon,” my friend...
The Jacmel Ciné Institute: changing the story
There are countries that tell their own stories, and countries whose stories have been told for them. Haiti has long been one of the...
Dominica’s great frog rescue
Leptodactylus fallax was always going to have it rough. Of all the places on the planet for this giant frog to call home, it picked the...
