Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

In this issue:

Devil on wheels

By Donna Yawching | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

Watch out — Donna Yawching has been learning to drive

Woman is boss

By Caribbean Beat | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

Wendy Yawching and Monique Nobrega created history as BWIA's first all-female flying crew

Wendy Yawching (left) and Monique Nobrega in the cockpit. Photograph by Trasi Jang/ Courtesy BWIA West Indies

Perfect Antigua

By Simon Lee | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

Simon Lee at large in one of the Caribbean’s most popular holiday islands

Betty's Hope windmill. Photograph by Chris Huxley

Out of the ashes

By Simon Young | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

Five years after the Soufriére Hills volcano erupted, Montserratians are getting back to a life of normalcy, despite the ever-present threat of yet another eruption. Simon Young reports

Gloria Escoffery — Miss G

By Polly Pattullo | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

Polly Patullo meets one of Jamaica’s best and least celebrated artists

Gloria Escoffery. Photograph by Fabian Escoffery

Curtly Ambrose on the bass

By Vaneisa Baksh | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

This season, the West Indies are without one of their star players, the six-foot-seven Antiguan fast bowler Curtly Ambrose, who has retired from the game. To do what? Vaneisa Baksh finds out

Curtly Ambrose. Photograph by Michael Steele/ Allsport

Cricket, oh cricket!

By Robert Clarke | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

A short story by Robert Clarke

The Cricket Crisis

By Colin Croft | Issue 48 (March/April 2001)

Requiem or resurrection? Back on their home ground after humiliating defeats in England and Australia, how will the West Indies fare against South Africa? Former Test player Colin Croft is optimistic