New music from the Caribbean (May/June 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH The Soca Switch 8: The Stars of Soca Various Artists (JW Productions, jwcl238 ) Soca Colours 4 Various Artists (JW...
Beres Hammond: soul survivor
He has maintained a healthy chart presence for many years, building a steady following through captivating live performances. He is...
Little boy blue
Stories of childhood and growing up feature prominently in the history of Caribbean literature. Maybe it’s because so many authors from...
The Queen’s Park Savannah: heart of a city
If you stand in downtown Port of Spain — the hectic, pulsing business centre of Trinidad — and start walking north, you’ll get to the...
An afternoon with George Lamming
In contrast to the idyllic Caribbean calm of Barbados’s “platinum” west coast, the sea at Bathsheba on the east coast is wild,...
Shoes for the dead
He works with quiet and arrogant indifference, the kind you grow to survive a career looked down upon by everyone; that cold exterior which...
The best of them all: great moments in reggae music
For the true music fan, there’s nothing quite like a good live concert, and over the years — more of them than I care to remember —...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/ February 1996)
Politics French and West Indian: Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana Today ed. Richard Burton, Fred Reno (Macmillan/Warwick University...
