Culture, Music, People, United Kingdom, Jamaica
By Michael Church ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Caribbean Cleo — the Amazing Cleo Laine
Cleo Laine was 26 when she learnt that she had been born to unmarried parents. She’d never had a passport, suddenly needed one for a...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Niala Maharaj ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Matelot, Trinidad: Behind God’s Back
“Matelot,” people in Trinidad say. “That’s behind God’s back.” By which, of course, they mean that the...
By Marcia Erskine ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Butch’s Baby: Sandals Resorts
In a way, you could say that Gordon “Butch” Stewart has his head in the sand, a lot of sand. So much, in fact, that one can...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Grenada
By Various Contributors ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Postcard From Grenada
Dear Jackie, They say Grenada is the “original Caribbean”. You can see why. The place oozes history. St George’s, the...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Grenada
By Sharon Almerigi ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
The Grenada Travel Cop | Last Word
In Grenada, all visitors know the handsomely-uniformed policemen who direct traffic through the narrow streets and crowded intersections of...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana
By Abigail Hadeed ● Issue 14 (Summer 1995)
Postcard From the Rupununi, Guyana
After the Caribbean islands, Guyana seems huge about size of Britain, with only 700,000 people. This is where the Caribbean invades South...
Culture, History, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago
By David Dabydeen ● Issue 14 (Summer 1995)
A Passage From India
On May 30, 1845, a small sailing ship of 415 tonnes, the Fatel Rozack, tied up at the lighthouse jetty in Port of Spain, Trinidad after a...
Culture, Business, Trinidad and Tobago
By David Renwick ● Issue 14 (Summer 1995)
Trinidad: The Big League
Trinidad and Tobago is rapidly emerging as one of the most sought- after locations for energy-related industrial activity in the western...