By Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Symphony in green: a guide to Dominica
From the air, this northern Windward island is a mass of densely forested mountains, scored by river valleys. On the ground, it overwhelms...
Arts and Architecture, History, St. Lucia
By Simon Lee ● Issue 42 (March/April 2000)
Potted history
Caribbean handicrafts — from canoe building to basket making, lace embroidery and vaudou flags — combine function, aesthetics and...
History, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Alex de Verteuil ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Spirit of the Americas
In a cramped room at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, amid a clutter of biological specimens, a...
Immerse, Culture, Arts, United States
By Alexandra Chang ● Issue 148 (November/December 2017)
Tracing Circles and Circuits | Panorama
A new exhibition spread across two museums in Los Angeles uses artworks and archival materials to show how different generations of Chinese Caribbean artists deal with issues of migration, diaspora, and cultural identity. Curator Alexandra Chang explains
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 147 (September/October 2017)
Lethem, Guyana | Neighbourhood
Streetscape Sprawling across a small triangle between the Takutu River, the airstrip, and the Rupununi Road, Lethem has no obvious centre...
By Nixon Nelson and Vicky James ● Issue 147 (September/October 2017)
Word of mouth (September/October 2017)
The line of victory Vicky James feels the exhilaration of the struggle at Antigua’s Francis Nunes Jr Memorial Fishing Tournament It’s...
Engage, Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Raymond Ramcharitar ● Issue 146 (July/August 2017)
Arif Bulkan: standing up for rights | Inspire
In a recent book, the US anthropologist David McDermott Hughes accused Trinidadians and Tobagonians of having a blind spot for the defining...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana
By Neil Marks ● Issue 144 (March/April 2017)
Pakaraima bound
You don’t have to be a topographer to figure out that Guyana is unapologetically part of Amazonia. But, just in case you want to be...