Toronto: summer in the city
They may not have written any soulful ballads about it (yet) — but Toronto in summer is well worth singing about. For one thing, it’s...
The Queen’s kaiso
When British calypsonian Alexander D Great heard calypso for the first time, it wasn’t in Trinidad, where he was born in Belmont, the...
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...
Georgia Popplewell: “I need to live to one hundred”
Founded in 2004, the international citizen media NGO Global Voices plays a crucial role in amplifying the voices of online communities...
Eastern elegance: Dhisha Moorjani’s House of Jaipur
For ten years, Trinidadian designer Dhisha Moorjani worked in the retail business, selling handicrafts and home décor from India. Then in...
Word of mouth (July/August 2015)
On Haitian earth Philip Sander explains the historic significance of Carifesta’s visit to Haiti There’s a sad disproportion between...
Eid-ul-Fitr: the end of the fast
Celebrating the end of the Ramadan fast, Muslim women prepare to pray in the Onafhankelijksplein, the park at the heart of Paramaribo’s...
Faustin Wirkus: for king and country?
More or less exactly a century ago, on 28 July, 1915, the first contingent of United States Marines disembarked in Port-au-Prince to begin...
