The People Before Columbus
Kim Johnson goes in search of the people who lived in the Caribbean before Columbus’ caravels sailed over the eastern horizon
Columbus’ Cross
From the air it looks like a giant cross. At ground level, it takes on the appearance of a distant, oversized office building. Only on...
Island Beat (January/February 1996)
BARBADOS AIMS FOR A NATIONAL GALLERY A major new art gallery opens in Barbados this year, and could become the centre of a national art...
Skywatching in Tobago
You can drive around Tobago in a day. You can fly there in the morning – the first flight from Trinidad puts you on the ground before...
Christo Adonis: 21st Century Carib
The forest-hardened arms of this man gently cradle the head of his granddaughter as they swing in a hammock under an open shed. Kada is two...
How to Name a Hummingbird
From the first, Europeans thought them quite startling. “Little birds,” remarked Columbus in 1492, when he first arrived in the New...
