

Issue 100 (November/December 2009)
Never mind the volcanic eruptions, these Montserrat folks have a festival to celebrate. James Fuller joined the party • The regional financial giant RBTT merged with the Royal Bank of Canada a year ago. James Fuller checks on their progress so far • Will Henley reports on efforts to help the Caribbean combat global warming • What do you do after you’ve been a superstar? Vaneisa Baksh reflects on the past and the future of former West Indies batting hero Brian Lara • The joys of motherhood can be bittersweet even for a former beauty queen, and Wendy Fitzwilliam shares some of them in her new book. Laura Dowrich-Phillips took a read • Real-life adventure or just a rollicking good yarn? Nicholas Laughlin reads between the lines of Papillon, the classic account of an escape from French Guiana’s Devil’s Island • He died a decade ago, but Laura Dowrich-Phillips finds that Merchant’s peers have not forgotten this great calypsonian • Tobago’s Signal Hill Alumni Choir has travelled the world to perform. Jonathan Ali listened to their siren song • and much more!


Edgar Mittelholzer: the Dark One

Bob Marley: Eating the Bread of Sorrow

Reviews (November/December 2009)

The Need for Speed: Caripass

More than just a pretty face

Anguilla: the Smallest Revolution

The Measure of a Mann

Island Life: the story of Island Records

Season’s greetings from a steelband

The triumph of calypso cricket

Notting Hill Carnival: Mas and the mother country

Merchant, is that you?

Signal Hill: The people’s voice

The man with the butterfly tattoo

Wendy Fitzwilliam: between a mother and a son

The heat is on: global warming and the Caribbean

Brian Lara: legend in his own lifetime

RBC & RBTT: Bank on a bigger future

Goat water in Cudjoe head
