Another World: Barbados
Barbados has an often overlooked secret, hidden beneath its turquoise sea. It’s another world, every bit as beautiful and exotic as the...
David Rudder: The Breakthrough
No doubt about it. David Rudder has booked his place in the history of Caribbean music since his dramatic debut in 1986. “Almost...
Ras Ishi: Son of Thunder
At the first Caribbean and Central American Biennial, held in Santo Domingo in 1992, 275 artists from 30 countries submitted 450 paintings....
Merlene Ottey: The Golden Lady
World Champion, Ambassador-at-Large, Her Excellency, Golden Lady. These are some of the lofty titles that have been attached to a humble...
Play it Again Sam — Remembering Samuel Selvon
By the middle of the afternoon a Caribbean classroom can be a sweltering place, with the temperature in the mid thirties and 45 adolescents...
The Cricket Match by Sam Selvon
The time when the West Indies cricket eleven come to England to show the Englishmen the finer points of the game, Algernon was working in a...
Going for the Birds
Until last December there were 431 recorded species of birds in Trinidad and Tobago, an extraordinary range for such small islands. Then,...
The Bellairs Research Institute: Finding the Answers
It is late at night. Savage waves pound the shoreline of Barbados’s rugged Atlantic coast. Emerging from the turbulence, a l80-pound...
