Patrick Hosein: the quiet innovator
We use the World Wide Web and our cellular phones, frequently simultaneously, like recently evolved appendages. We can barely imagine going...
Show me your blue flag
It’s the last thing you want to think about while enjoying a dip in the sea, but if terms like “stormwater runoff” and “combined...
Invaders coming!
The story of Invaders Steel Orchestra One of the oldest steelbands in the world is BWIA Invaders. From their location on Tragarete Road in...
Trinidad’s Aida — Heather Headley
It was minutes before the curtain went up on the Broadway musical, Aida. Unless you count the three grapes and two strawberries she had...
The Bajan Boom
It was a glorious blood-red sunset, the light splashing pink on the white limestone rock of Barbados. The craggy mounds to the left and...
Greencastle Hill, Antigua — A Tropical Stonehenge?
Once upon a time I was an ardent rock-climber with my eyes on the Matterhorn. So when I started married life in Antigua, one of the...
Breaking the barriers
We in the Caribbean are a family split up. We live in our separate islands, separate in terms of policy and philosophy, as well as...
John King: standing for something
You can trace John King’s progress by his hair. In 1982, when he appeared as the young “Johnny Ma Boy” in Barbados’s Crop Over...
