The beating heart of Suriname
On the bank of a slow sliding brown river, Javanese gamelan musicians play the halting melody of the Jarakapang, or Horse Spirit Dance....
Trinidad and Tobago: a tale of two cities
Trinidad Trinidad is transformed by its people. Dramatically. One person may come and be whisked from airport to hotel to conference room...
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...
An alphabet of Caribbean beaches
Anse La Roche, Carriacou To get to this secluded bay at the foot of the High North Range, you’ll need to hike through the woods or hire a...
Antigua for adventure
Let the wind take you It’s probably the most daring of watersports, a cross between windsurfing, wakeboarding, and aerial acrobatics....
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2015)
Sounding Ground, by Vladimir Lucien (Peepal Tree Press, 73 pp, ISBN 9781845232399) The narrator in one of St Lucian Vladimir Lucien’s...
Trinidad’s leatherbacks: a place to nest
She would have been easier to spot under a full moon. The use of flashlights on this protected beach is restricted, and at this late hour...
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...
