Skywatching in Tobago
People who spend time there find something very special in its atmosphere and way of life, something peaceful and serene...
Issue 22 (November/December 1996)
Skywatching in Tobago by Pat Ganase; Caribbean Christmas by Skye Hernandez; The Chutney Phenomenon by Georgia Popplewell; It Takes a Village by Rupert Roopnarine; A Very True Observer by Mary Adam; You Must Help Him by Earl Lovelace; Cinema Paradiso by Pat Ganase; and much more!
Caribbean Christmas
Christmas is a big celebration in all the Caribbean islands, with plenty of partying, visiting and festivity. But each island celebrates uniquely
A Very True Observer: Philip Henry Gosse
Mary Adam explores the life and work of Philip Henry Gosse: "the father of Jamaican ornithology"
You Must Help Him (from Earl Lovelace’s “Salt”)
In a land of competing cultures and peoples, how to create roots and idnetity, how to weld together conflicting visions? Earl Lovelace explores in an excerpt from "Salt"
The Chutney Phenomenon
The Indian Caribbean is making itself heard outside its own communities, especially in the lively idiom called chutney
Philip Moore: It Takes a Village
Guyana's great sculptor Philip Moore has quietly created an astonishing body of transcendent art. A profile on this undervalued Caribbean artist
Cinema Paradiso
Interactive film? You must be joking. The Caribbean has had that for years. Just go to the cinema in Trinidad and Tobago, for instance
