A Sip of Suriname
It’s one o’clock in the morning in Paramaribo. I’m in the back of a taxi piloted by a Guyanese man, flying through the puddles in...
Welcome to Suriname
Judging from the faces and the food, you might be in Africa, Asia or Indonesia. Looking at the architecture in the capital no one would...
Mountains of memory: Jamaica’s Cockpit Country
Viewed from above, it’s immediately apparent why this region was dubbed “The Cockpits” by British soldiers in the seventeenth...
Marcel Pinas: the art of presence
Because of the available flight connections from Trinidad, I always arrive in and depart from Suriname nodding between sleep and waking,...
Caribbean Datebook (March/April 2013)
AROUND THE REGION Rally round Sports bring people together like nothing else, and in the Caribbean no game incites stronger emotions than...
Happenings (January/February 2010)
Madness everywhere: T&T mas There’s something for everyone in the weeks leading up to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. Whether you’re...
Tacky and his freedom fighters
The system of slavery that blighted the Caribbean region for the best part of 400 years aimed not only to exploit its victims but also to...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 1998)
FICTION One Bright Child Patricia Cumper (BlackAmber Books, UK, 1998: ISBN 1901969002) This is the first title from a new publisher...
