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Close encounter: whale-watching in Dominica

For many visitors to Dominica, a whale-watching trip is an unforgettable experience — more than a dozen different cetacean species have...

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Culture, Travel, Festivals and Events, Lifestyle, Dominica

Saving the Sisserou

A mid the branches of the huge gommier trees, on the flanks of the sleeping Morne Diablotin volcano in Dominica, there is a flash of green;...

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Literature, Reviews, Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago

Bookshelf (May/June 2000)

BOOK OF THE MONTH For the Love of my Name Lakshmi Persaud (Peepal Tree Press 2000, ISBN 1-900715-29-5, 336pp) Lakshmi Persaud’s third...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominica

Time stands still in Touna Auté, Dominica

Irvince Auguiste, architect of the Touna Auté project, invites me into his kitchen, where his wife Louisette greets me with a big smile...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominica

Gardening in the tropics

Polly Pattullo’s “Gardening in the Tropics” is reproduced from Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan...

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Music, Reviews, People, Dominica

Nasio Fontaine: hear his cry

At the end of a crackling telephone line, Nasio Fontaine is in high spirits. “We just coming from Africa,” he says with obvious mirth....

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Culture, Literature, Arts, People, Dominica

Jean Rhys: voyager in the dark

On a cold spring day in 1847, Charlotte Brontë sits at her writing-desk in her father’s parsonage. She looks out of the window, across...

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Culture, Music, Arts, Dominica

Kweyol Greetings

Sakafet? No this isn’t a misprint for sack of fate, so don’t adjust your eyeballs, contact lenses or even your reading glasses; your...

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