Music buzz (September/October 2007)
The January Transfer Window jointpop (Anarchy on the Ave. Records) When considering how studiously neglected jointpop, Trinidad’s best...
A Winter Tale: heartbreak and humour
If Frances-Anne Solomon looked a little haggard when we met, it was entirely understandable. Just a few days earlier, her film A Winter...
Bookshelf (September/October 2007)
Beyond the Islands: An Autobiography Sir James Mitchell (Macmillan Caribbean, ISBN 1-4050-1417-2, 463 pp) For the best part of 30 years,...
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2007)
The First West Indies Cricket Tour: Canada and the United States in 1886 Ed Hilary McD Beckles (Canoe Press, ISBN 13: 978-976-8125-86-6,...
The books are back: the Caribbean Literary Festival
Just in its second year, the Caribbean Literary Festival is set to return to Antigua this November. The festival was launched by...
Buljol, business and books
It started over a plateful of roast bake and buljol and evolved into a business relationship and friendship, which still includes a...
Asa Wright Nature Centre: an old house and a dream
It’s 40 years since Trinidad’s Asa Wright Nature Centre was opened at the old plantation house of Springhill, now 100 years old. To...
Rihanna: “I try to remain true to who I am”
I was in Barbados, living a normal life, going to school at Combermere Secondary School, when I was discovered. A record producer from New...
