Redemption Songs
How can you be so ungrateful/After all that God has done for you . . . Unlikely lyrics for a contemporary Jamaican smash hit? Only a year...
Skywatching in Tobago
You can drive around Tobago in a day. You can fly there in the morning – the first flight from Trinidad puts you on the ground before...
A Very True Observer: Philip Henry Gosse
Life was not easy for Philip Henry Gosse in the early 1840s. He trained for a career as a naturalist, but it was a tough way to make a...
You Must Help Him (from Earl Lovelace’s “Salt”)
She saw him on the shore, still eighteen, with the pathos of his pulled-down cap and his dark shades, his affected seriousness, and his...
The Chutney Phenomenon
To a visitor in the 1920s, Debe, in south-west Trinidad, was “almost wholly a Hindu town”. Seventy years later it’s still...
Philip Moore: It Takes a Village
I interrupted him again this morning. He was at work in a makeshift studio on the ground floor of a busy complex in central Georgetown,...
St. Lucia Sea Fever
Surf, paraglide, dive, fish, ski, or just keep on tanning? Chris Huxley looks at the tough choices that face the watersports addict in St...
Passing Cloud
Like many other West Indians, Dan had gone overseas to study, and found his world different when he came back . . . This poignant short...
