People

Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, Literature, People, Barbados

Shakirah Bourne: “If we don’t tell our stories, who will?”

I have no idea where my love for reading came from, because when I was a child no one else in my family read anything. I used to read so...

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Culture, Literature, People, Barbados

Trinidad Carnival: back to the future

“I don’t play Midnight Robber — I am one” The first time Fédon Honoré performed as a Midnight Robber, he forgot half his speech....

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Culture, Literature, People, United Kingdom

Hannah Lowe: making her claim

Despite the swell of her belly, Hannah Lowe is perched, apparently comfortably, on a wide bench at the British Library in London. The child...

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Immerse, Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

DJ Christopher ‘Jillionaire’ Leacock: “You have to give them a good time every night”

My thing is, I’ve just always kinda been a lucky fella, you know. As a kid I didn’t have enough money to buy albums — I was buying...

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Culture, Travel, Arts, People, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Holly Bynoe: “I depend on the kindness of strangers”

Launched in early 2011, ARC magazine has quickly won an enthusiastic audience for its coverage of contemporary Caribbean art, with a focus...

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Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Grenada

Bittersweet: remembering Mott Green

In the past, when friends visited Grenada, they brought back quaint little packets of nutmeg and spices with some cocoa balls. We’d...

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Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Lights, Camera, Animals: Christopher and Leizelle Guinness

When the great American comedian W.C. Fields quipped that one should never work with children or animals, he likely had both his tongue in...

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Immerse, Culture, Theatre and Dance, People, The Bahamas

Nicolette Bethel: “In the theatre, you never know what’s gonna happen”

Theatre was all around me when I was growing up. Every place you went — church, school — had a performance component. My mother Keva...

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