Errol Hill: Carnival Professor
Errol Gaston Hill, 5 August, 1921–16 September, 2003 The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre, by Errol Hill. That’s the...
Rebel with a camera: Carlos Lechuga
Melaza, the debut feature film from Cuban writer and director Carlos Lechuga, opens with a shot of a sun-drenched field of sugarcane, the...
Gaiutra Bahadur: enigmas and arrivals
On 4 November, 1903, a British merchant ship named The Clyde pulls into the mouth of the Demerara River, the harbour of Georgetown, capital...
Tessanne Chin: a star is made
It’s the stuff of fairytales. On a starlit Sunday night in January 2014, Tessanne Chin took the stage at a free concert on Kingston’s...
Make it new
New writers don’t just sprout up overnight. Hence the adjective “emerging,” now in common use: it implies process and progress, and a...
Flying lessons: Debbie Jacob’s Wishing for Wings
Jahmai Donaldson was a troubled teenager so enamoured of rap stars that he had his teeth replaced with false ones made of gold and...
Dave Chadee — mosquito man
Consider this: mosquitoes kill more people (and livestock) than any other animal on the planet. The Dracula of the insect world transmits a...
Thoroughly modern Millie Small
March 1964 was a dull month in Britain. The swinging 60s had yet to really arrive, the Cold War loomed ominously in news bulletins, and...
