History, Lifestyle, Antigua and Barbuda
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Greencastle Hill, Antigua — A Tropical Stonehenge?
Once upon a time I was an ardent rock-climber with my eyes on the Matterhorn. So when I started married life in Antigua, one of the...
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 44 (July/August 2000)
Starwatch: Star Showers
Although two partial solar eclipses occur in July- on the 1st and 31st – they are not visible from the Caribbean region. Visitors...
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Starwatch
To many people, May spells potential doom because of the multi-planet alignments which occur this month and which are mistakenly believed...
Culture, Environment, Lifestyle
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 59 (January/February 2003)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
To me, the full moon is at its ultimate, beautiful best when it rises over a Caribbean beach on a clear, star-filled night. Magnificent, a...
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 58 (November/December 2002)
Celestial Manoeuvres
At the time of writing this article last July, the Earth had just had three relatively close shaves with asteroids. An asteroid named 2001...
Culture, Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 57 (September/October 2002)
Roses Are Red, Roses Are Blue…
Love songs and Valentine cards celebrate what we know — roses are red, violets blue. But, to some people, this suggests the question:...
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 56 (July/August 2002)
Is there anybody out there?
When I found a copy of Carl Sagan’s Contact in a secondhand bookstore, and somebody gave me another Sagan book on extraterrestrial life...
History, Science, Antigua and Barbuda
By Maura Imbert ● Issue 55 (May/June 2002)
Arawak astronomers
The possibility that Greencastle Hill in Antigua may be a “tropical Stonehenge” dating back to the Caribbean’s indigenous,...