Artists Gather in Cuba
In the United States they have pop culture and Madonna, in the Caribbean we have Fidel and Bob Marley. Several of my friends: born in the...
The Cricket Match by Sam Selvon
The time when the West Indies cricket eleven come to England to show the Englishmen the finer points of the game, Algernon was working in a...
Going for the Birds
Until last December there were 431 recorded species of birds in Trinidad and Tobago, an extraordinary range for such small islands. Then,...
The Bellairs Research Institute: Finding the Answers
It is late at night. Savage waves pound the shoreline of Barbados’s rugged Atlantic coast. Emerging from the turbulence, a l80-pound...
The Battle of the Saintes
If you stand at Capucin or Point Jacquot, on the northern tip of Dominica, you can see the little French islands of the Saintes. They look...
Aimé Césaire: Reaching For Freedom
Aimé Césaire, the mayor of Fort-de-France in Martinique, is 81 years old. And he still shows up for work every day. His office, on the...
Trinidad Mas: Carnival of the World
In Toronto, a vulture in a paratrooper’s jumpsuit, with wings of black cotton hung like washing on a bamboo pole, wearing a Gulf War...
Luther François: Hearing The Music
Jazz is in the hearts of Caribbean musicians. Luther François of the West Indies Jazz Band hears it in the music of violinists and other...
