Minnows’ hope
As if you didn’t already know, there are no teams from the Caribbean in this year’s FIFA World Cup finals. Jamaica could only manage...
Karl “Cannonball” Bryan: the joy of sax
The last thing I expected to hear when I was wondering around the weekly farmers’ market in downtown Toronto on a recent Saturday was...
The shot at the mercy gate
The Haitian Revolution, a titanic thirteen-year struggle that ended slavery in the Caribbean’s most prosperous colony, has rightly been...
Henri Christophe’s palace of dreams in Sans Souci
The small community of Milot is pretty much what any visitor to northern Haiti might expect to find: a few streets of wood and corrugated...
A wild surmise: Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Few moments in history can have been more evocatively captured. On 25 September, 1513, a Spanish conquistador gazed in wonder from a...
Panama’s Casco Viejo: jamming in the old town
My first impressions of Panama City’s Casco Viejo, or Old Town, are comforting. It’s odd how this unknown place — I’ve never...
Houses of the spirits
In islands like Jamaica and Barbados, the great sugar plantocracies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spawned imposing mansions...
Cuba: Revolution time
Like him or loathe him, you can’t deny the fact that Fidel Castro is a survivor. As I write this, Cuba’s compañero comandante is...
