Windwardside, Saba
Streetscape Clinging to a steep saddle between Mt Scenery and Booby Hill, Windwardside has more steps than pavements. The classic Saba...
Sapto Sopawiro: man of shadows
A wayang performance starts with a number of banana-tree stems (the Earth) and a large screen of white cloth (the Universe), behind which...
Market day
San Antonio Green Market Santa Cruz, Trinidad In the lush valley north-east of Port of Spain, organic farmers and artisanal food producers...
Caribbean Datebook (September/October 2014)
New York Breakaway on the parkway You live in North America, but didn’t make it back to the Caribbean for any of this year’s Carnivals?...
Earthy delights
Andromeda Gardens Bathsheba, Barbados Near a steep cliff overlooking the island’s east coast, Barbados’s best-known garden began as the...
Paramaribo: rolling in the deep
The muscles in my upper arms were screaming, protesting at the workout they were being made to undergo, the likes of which they hadn’t...
Nicole de Weever: dancing with the stars
Nicole de Weever is a woman of many talents: dance, drama and song. But of the three, the most fulfilling is her first passion – dance....
Suriname’s rainforest: journey to the back of beyond
It is a typical afternoon in Raleighvallen, a remote area of Suriname’s rainforest, perhaps not unlike a day a thousand years ago. The...
