Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Looks at Barbados’ Cropover, Jamaica’s Sunsplash and Trinidad and Tobago’s Great Race events; the insider’s guide to surfing in the Caribbean; the life and work of artist Isaiah Boodhoo, Dominica’s writer-politician Phyllis Allfrey, and Jamaican writer and performer Ken Corsbie; the wonders of Guyana; playwright Mustapha Matura’s London; warrie warriors; and much more!
Meiling: Shirts For All Seasons
Recent work by Meiling, the Trinidad-based designer who successfully exports her garments across the Caribbean and beyond, photographed by Steve Cohn
Buying Caribbean
A new campaign to boost regional products in consumers' minds is being supported by this year's annual Caribbean trade fair in Barbados. Jo Kingsley reports
Charging by the Head
Paul Keens-Douglas seeks out a quiet beach and gets embroiled in a furious dispute about the economics of hair-braiding
Guyana Gold: A New Tourism
A vast land of forest and mountain, river and waterfall, Guyana is developing a kind of tourism new to the Caribbean.
Ian Thomson: Hooked on Haiti
Kathryn Topham meets Ian Thomson, the author of a new full-length book on one of the Caribbean's most intriguing countries - Haiti
Mister Theatre: Ken Corsbie
Broadcaster and performer, writer and storyteller, Ken Corsbie wants people to discover each other through theatre.
Mustapha Matura: My London
The Caribbean-born playwright Mustapaha Matura settled in London three decades ago. He explains what he loves best about his adopted home
Phyllis Alfrey: The Art of Living Together
Polly Pattullo looks back at the achievement of Dominica's writer-politician, Phyllis Alfrey
Pick of the Crop: Barbados’ Crop Over
Once the feast that marked the end of the sugar harvest, the Carnival-like Crop Over festival is now the biggest event in Barbados' calendar
Isaiah James Boodhoo: Poet of the Plains
Boodhoo doesn't paint single pictures: he produces a series at a time, on anything from Derek Walcott's poems to the life of Trinidad's Caroni plains
Sunsplash: Reggae to Go
Jamaica's annual Sunsplash festival has become one of the world's great musical events and the nerve centre of reggae music
Surf’s Up! The Caribbean’s Best Surfing
The Caribbean islands offer some of the best surfing in the world. Learn about the next surfing season and where to find the most exciting breaks
Why Warri
Rooted in Africa, warri is a board game of fiendish complexity, and is still played in Barbados and Antigua. Meet the last of the warriors
