Carnival Countdown (Part 2)
Children’s Carnival Kids show them Most children love to play dress-up; in Trinidad and Tobago, however, they have an official forum for...
Have internet, will travel
It’s difficult — and probably futile — to determine which, among all human activities, has been most altered by the Internet, but...
Carnival Countdown (Part 1)
It’s Carnival Time Again It seems like only yesterday we were being swept along on the tide of Sanell Dempster’s The River and...
Holding pattern — Jamaica’s Michael Holding
“So. When you’re in Jamaica you’re —” My brain, numbed from an early-morning wake-up and the five-hour flight between Port of...
A taste of Cebu
It’s the third Sunday in January, and I’m walking south along Gorordo Avenue in Cebu City. There’s a buzz in the air, the strain of...
Upbeat (May/June 2001)
CALYPSO/SOCA Hot Caribbean Hits Various Artists (Victory World, VR 129) This first release from world music label Victory World is a...
Adonal Foyle: in the big league
By the standards of makeshift courts in the Caribbean, the basketball court at Ashton isn’t bad. It’s walled in, there are ample...
Take me to Jamaica
If Jamaica were a drink, it would be one of those heady, multi-ingredient cocktails, with notes of both sweet and bitter, pungent, yet...
