Talk Yuh Talk By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) The conscious lyrics of 3 Canal's hit song
The Basseterre beat By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) The St Kitts Music Festival is becoming one of the Caribbean’s most attractive music events. Patricia Meschino reports from this year’s venue in Basseterre
The comic, the thief and the Commissioner of Police By Simon Lee | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) Simon Lee learns that comedy can be dead serious
Patrick Chamoiseau: Return of the Creole By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) James Ferguson talks to the novelist Patrick Chamoiseau whose controversial ideas have fuelled a raging debate on Martinique’s future
Natalie Reis: flamenco flame By Mark Meredith | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) Mark Meredith talks to a Trinidadian who found her feet in Australia — teaching flamenco
The beating heart of Suriname By Simon Lee | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) Diverse in people and culture, Suriname is an undiscovered treasure of the Amazon. Simon Lee explores
Caribbean insurance comes of age By David Renwick | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) An industry review by David Renwick
Gateway to Liberty By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) Jeremy Taylor on Ellis Island, the place where the American experience began for so many thousands of people
Considering Courtney Walsh By Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) Younger, fitter men baulk at the pressure. The walls of West Indies cricket tumble around him. But Courtney Walsh, at 36 going on 37, remains as unstoppable as one of his own devastating deliveries. Vaneisa Baksh contemplates the brilliant career of the West Indies’s former captain and top wicket-taker
Turning point By James Ferguson | Issue 39 (September/October 1999) James Ferguson on In The Castle Of My Skin, George Lamming’s masterpiece about a civilisation in the throes of social revolution