By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 143 (January/February 2017)
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2017) | Book Reviews
The Colour of Shadows, by Judy Raymond (Caribbean Studies Press, 200 pp, ISBN 9781626325197) Nineteenth-century artist Richard...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, History
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 141 (September/October 2016)
Dining like the ancestors
We don’t know enough about the pre-Columbian history of the Caribbean. Many believe that our island chain — formed through tectonic...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, British Virgin Islands
By Ishwar Persad ● Issue 139 (May/June 2016)
Virgin Gorda — “I could easily get used to this”
“My love affair with the Fat Virgin — Columbus’s take on the island’s geographical shape — started in March 2007, visiting an...
By Caribbean Beat and Simon Lee ● Issue 49 (May/June 2001)
Island Beat (May/June 2001)
CAN’T MISS THIS Simon Lee on the Caribbean’s headline events of May and June It’s hard to get the dress code wrong in the Caribbean...
By Simon Lee ● Issue 48 (March/April 2001)
Perfect Antigua
The Arawaks called it Yarumaqui, the island of canoe-making. To the Caribs it was Wadadli, a name that survives in the excellent local...
Travel, Festivals and Events, History
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 1 (Spring 1992)
Expo ’92: The Year of Seville
If you’ve always wanted to visit Spain, this is the perfect year. Madrid has been declared Europe’s cultural capital. Barcelona...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, History, Lifestyle, St. Kitts and Nevis
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 131 (January/February 2015)
St Kitts & Nevis: five centuries in two days
There are a couple of things you should know about St Kitts and Nevis before we embark on a history-steeped tour of the twin-island Eastern...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominican Republic
By James Ferguson ● Issue 44 (July/August 2000)
Walking With the Conquerors in the Dominican Republic
I had forgotten one important thing about Santo Domingo. Its ability to surprise. By that I don’t really mean to imply that...