Issue 55 (May/June 2002)

Simon Lee on the Caribbean’s headline events in May and June

Cooking with bananas

A collection of Caribbean business websites for anyone searching for commercial contacts within the region

Even as a pre-teen Beres Hammond had the voice. But it was his involvement with the business side of the recording industry that brought him financial success. A profile by David Katz

The Queen's Park Savannah is the heart and lungs of the Trinidad and Tobago capital, Port of Spain. A huge open space between downtown and the Northern Range, it is the favourite haunt of joggers and walkers, footballers and cricketers, connoisseurs of coconuts, roast corn and oysters, skateboarders and kite- flyers. A former sugar estate preserved for the people, the Savannah is to Port of Spain what Central Park is to New York. Marlon Rouse captures some of its many moods

Simon Lee talks to legendary Caribbean writer George Lamming

Writer and lawyer Kathy Ann Waterman visits St Vincent, in search of something special — not the tourist spots or the sailing waters of the Grenadines, but the country village where her mother was born and the life she once lived there

A short story by Andrew Miller

Once, St Pierre was a centre of French elegance and pleasure, the pride of the French Caribbean, “the Paris of the Antilles”. But one morning the mountain behind the town blew apart, wiping out the town and killing almost all its 30,000 people. James Ferguson revisits the volcano, exactly 100 years on

Marlon Miller explains why Angostura Sail Week in Tobago is a must on the sailing calendar. (Despite his memories, the Regatta provides some excellent ocean racing)

Further research in Antigua suggests that the stones on Greencastle Hill really may have been used by Arawaks a thousand years ago to track time and season

Garry Steckles remembers some of the greatest moments in the history of reggae music

Rosemarie Gajar learns to conquer her fear of the deep