Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 29 (January/February 1998)
Chef Hans Schweitzer
Hans Schweitzer’s five-by-seven-foot office in the main kitchen of the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados harbours everything from a computer...
Culture, Technology, People, Barbados
By Lorraine Jones ● Issue 29 (January/February 1998)
Going Solar: Oliver Headley’s Sun Traps
One night in 1957, the calm of a district in Barbados known as Mile And A Quarter was shattered by the launch of a home-made rocket...
Culture, Theatre and Dance, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Jane Bryce ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Yarico: Staging slavery in 1999
Barbados: just beyond your imagination. The tourism slogan works by subtle provocation. We think we already know about the place —...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 5 (Spring 1993)
A Break in Barbados
In days gone by, Barbados’s climate was one of the most famous in the world. People came visiting from England and America for...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Pick of the Crop: Barbados’ Crop Over
There’s an old Barbadian expression for walking the hot midday pavement, usually on a tedious mission: “slapping tar”....
Culture, Lifestyle, Sports, Barbados
By Valerie Jones ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Why Warri
It is Saturday afternoon in a narrow alley next to a modest home in the suburbs of Bridgetown. Shaded by a rusted iron paling, several men...
Culture, Music, People, Barbados
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 7 (Autumn 1993)
No Eclipse for the Mighty Gabby
Gabby sat beside a swimming pool under an eclipsing moon on Bayley’s plantation, remembering the first day he met the owner, the...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Barbados
By Dr. Henry Fraser ● Issue 7 (Autumn 1993)
The Barbadian Beauty of Andromeda
What do a mythological maiden and a world-famous botanic garden have in common? Andromeda, in ancient Greek mythology, was a beautiful...