Issue 37 (May/June 1999)
Annie Paul talks to Julian Henriques, director of the film Babymother; Donna Yawching takes her children on holiday in Barbados with surprising results and Dwight Yorke tells Jack Carroll about living his dream. Michael Goodwin also profiles the American pan virtuoso Andy Narrrell and Mark Meredith pens a guide on Trinidad and Tobago as it welcomes the Miss Universe 1999 pageant. Plus all the latest in Caribbean music, books and culture.
Judette Coward talks to Anne-Marie Whittaker, an “accidental historian” documenting Caribbean food
The Harder They Dance
Annie Paul talks to Julian Henriques, Jamaican-born director of the movie Babymother
Barbados for Kids
Donna Yawching finds much to be pleased about when she takes her children on holiday in Barbados
Doing It Dwight: Tobago’s Dwight Yorke
Tobago-born Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke is living out his dreams of playing football among the world’s best
Andy Narrell: Caribbean Man
Michael Goodwin profiles American pan virtuoso Andy Narrell, and his debut as an arranger at the 1999 Steelband Panorama competition in Trinidad
Island Beat (May/June 1999)
What's hot and happening in the islands
Upbeat (May/June 1999)
New Caribbean Music
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 1999)
New and recent books about the Caribbean
The Bosnian Connection
The Caribbean is worlds away from eastern Europe. But many of our people have worked in war-ravaged Bosnia as members of the UN peacekeeping force.
Beach Bummer
When is a day at the beach a nightmare? Ask Nazma Muller
Twinmills of Antigua
Lesley Hoffman on the restored Betty’s Hope, the Caribbean’s only operating sugar mill