Baroness Valerie Amos: Wakenaam to Westminster
The way Baroness Valerie Amos speaks — in an accent more Kentish than anything else — you get the sense that the extraordinary...
Island Beat (September/October 2000)
UWI fete for Miami Carnival It’s official. The UWI fete is coming to Miami. This is a chance for Caribbean people in the United...
Mt Roraima: “I could hardly imagine how we came all this way”
“Setting off for Mt Roraima in March 2007, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I’d read as much as I could find about the...
Iwokrama: Guyana’s green gold
In the shade of the forest, out of the burning heat of the sun, toucans are yapping to each other as shrilly as puppies. Vitus Antone...
Kaieteur dreaming
After we unload our bags from the Land Cruiser, I check our location on my map. If I draw an imaginary straight line, Pamela Landing —...
Beat destination: Guyana
Land of many wonders Guyana is the only English-speaking country on the South American continent. It is a land of tremendous waterfalls,...
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...
Karen de Souza and (Red) Threads that bind
Today, the Guyanese women’s advocacy group Red Thread is one of the Caribbean’s best known in the area of gender justice and equality,...
