Immerse, Music, People, Dominica
By Paul Crask ● Issue 153 (September/October 2018)
Michele Henderson: “I woke up with an entire song in my head”
Singer-songwriter Michele Henderson, performing at October’s World Creole Music Festival, on her musical childhood and her transition to the international stage — as told to Paul Crask, at her home in Grand Bay, Dominica
By Paul Crask ● Issue 152 (July/August 2018)
Clearing the trail | Escape
Dominica’s Waitukubuli National Trail is the jewel in the Nature Isle’s ecotourism crown. 2017’s Hurricane Maria devastated the trail — along with the rest of Dominica — but now an unusual breed of “voluntourists” are helping restore it. Paul Crask meets two of them
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020), Issue 151 (May/June 2018)
Create Caribbean: tech to the people | Plugin
Founded by scholar Schuyler Esprit, Dominica’s Create Caribbean was well on its way to making tech tools for education available to all. Then Hurricane Maria hit. Lisa Allen-Agostini discovers how the digital humanities project is putting the pieces back together
By James Ferguson ● Issue 42 (March/April 2000)
The Orchid House — end of an era
In 1953, a novel entitled The Orchid House was published by the reputable firm of Constable in London. It was a modest success, received...
Festivals and Events, Dominica
By Simon Lee ● Issue 39 (September/October 1999)
The comic, the thief and the Commissioner of Police
I wasn’t too pleased when I found out I’d have to share my guesthouse room in Dominica. I was there to cover the World Creole Music...
By Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Symphony in green: a guide to Dominica
From the air, this northern Windward island is a mass of densely forested mountains, scored by river valleys. On the ground, it overwhelms...
By Paul Crask ● Issue 149 (January/February 2018)
What follows the storm in Dominica | Green
In September 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated Dominica’s houses, businesses, and infrastructure. But the storm also took a toll on the Nature Isle’s forests and wildlife — a major blow for an economy that depends on eco-tourism. Paul Crask reports
Embark, Community, Environment, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, St. Barts, St. Martin, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 148 (November/December 2017)
After the storm | Perspective
For people of the Caribbean, the start of the annual hurricane season in June is a time of watchfulness, if not anxiety. Hurricanes are a...