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...
Jean-Jacques Fougère-Audubon: The Bird Man
Think of birds, and you think of Audubon. But who was he? Caroline Popovic finds out The founders of the Audubon Society named their august...
Jamaica Cool
Some years ago I took the Long Island Railroad from Penn Station in Manhattan. A few stops down the line is Jamaica in the borough of...
Big Mac: Barbados’ Mac Fingall
At six foot five, the Games Master at the Lodge School looks small in his cramped cubicle, which is three feet square. Paper is scattered...
Jason Apparicio: Wave Rider
As I paddle my surfboard through tepid turquoise on the remote north coast of Trinidad, it’s hard to believe this is the same ocean...
Trinidad & Tobago: Dancing To A Different Drum
“So what is Trinidad famous for?” the teacher asked. The subject was Caribbean achievements. It was a hot Friday afternoon; the...
Little Tobago: Counting the Birds of Paradise
There may or may not be a portrait of Queen Victoria looking down on the chaps at Britain’s Scientific Exploration Society, but the fact...
Barbados Crop Over
Crop Over, Barbados’s biggest festival, begins in early July and climaxes with the Grand Kadooment costume-band road march on the first...
