Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 51 (September/October 2001)
The private Eric Williams
An excerpt from The Elusive Eric Williams by Dr Ken Boodhoo, a new biography of the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago. In this...
Culture, Literature, Arts, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By James Ferguson ● Issue 77 (January/February 2006)
Doctor say: Eric Williams’ history lessons
It’s hard to imagine now — in an age of intensive academic research and publishing — that only 35 years ago there was barely a single...
Culture, Literature, History, People
By Tony Martin ● Issue 56 (July/August 2002)
Caribbean voices, Caribbean thinkers
C.L.R James, Marcus Garvey, Eric Williams, Francis Williams, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, J.B. Philippe, John Brown Russwurm, Edward...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Barbados
By Simon Lee ● Issue 55 (May/June 2002)
An afternoon with George Lamming
In contrast to the idyllic Caribbean calm of Barbados’s “platinum” west coast, the sea at Bathsheba on the east coast is wild,...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
Caribbean Bookshelf (Autumn 1992)
The Islands and the Sea John A. Murray (ed.) (Oxford University Press, hardback, 1991) Subtitled Five Centuries of Nature Writing from the...