The Mighty Terror: a golden voice falls silent
Calypso connoisseurs called him the Mighty Terror, but Fitzgerald Cornelius Henry will always be remembered as the calypsonian with the...
Island hopper (July/August 2007)
We don’t call it summer, but as in most places, it’s holiday season in the Caribbean. School is out, the beaches are beckoning and...
Imagining the islands
Brooklyn has long been recognised as a melting pot of Caribbean culture in the United States. Many Caribbean migrants call the borough...
Sir Vidia Naipaul: A knight of celebrations
Sir Vidia Naipaul turns 75 on August 17, but in his homeland of Trinidad the celebrations have already begun. The St Augustine campus of...
Run, Ernest, Run
Ernest Kimeli and Jemima Sumgong of Kenya set new male and female course records last year when they completed the 13.1-mile International...
Book buzz (July/August 2007)
The Finalists, a Graphical Look back at Trinidad and Tobago’s Calypso and Soca Monarch Finals John E H Barry (ISBN 976819386-7, 148 pp)...
Up close and impersonal
Caribbean Dreams: Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, Michael Wissing, Regine Hodeige (Macmillan Education, ISBN-13: 978-1-405098-73-1,...
Eco buzz (July/August 2007)
The Caribbean: sun, sea, and…whale-watching Whale-watching may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Caribbean,...
