Wide Sargassum sea
On my last flight to Barbados, I looked out of the aircraft window and saw scattered masses of brown matter floating on the sea. For a...
Tip of the rock: Barbados’ north coast
Flying into Barbados, if the plane approaches from the right direction and elevation, you can see the whole island spread out before you...
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...
Kathryn Cleghorn and Animals Alive: dogs’ best friend
The quiet of a Sunday morning in a south Trinidad village is broken by the sound of many dogs barking. The clash of high-pitched and deep...
Tobago: green as an island
Driving through Tobago’s rainforest is like meditation. Free from human noise, the silence is filled instead with the heartbeat of life...
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...
San Pedro, Belize
Streetscape One of those laid-back Caribbean towns where no building is taller than a coconut tree, San Pedro has grown in recent decades...
Jeremy Tilokee: raw passion
I have many Caribbean friends who used to vigorously resist the idea of raw seafood. “I eh eating dat!” But after some coaxing, and a...
