By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 128 (July/August 2014)
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...
Culture, Travel, Festivals and Events, Lifestyle, Dominica
By Peter Rickwood ● Issue 44 (July/August 2000)
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;...
Literature, Reviews, Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago
By Vaneisa Baksh, Jeremy Taylor and Simon Lee ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
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...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominica
By Paul Crask ● Issue 97 (May/June 2009)
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...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominica
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 83 (January/February 2007)
Gardening in the tropics
Polly Pattullo’s “Gardening in the Tropics” is reproduced from Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan...
Music, Reviews, People, Dominica
By David Katz ● Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
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....
Culture, Literature, Arts, People, Dominica
By Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 70 (November/December 2004)
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...
Culture, Music, Arts, Dominica
By Simon Lee ● Issue 57 (September/October 2002)
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...