Jimmy Cliff thinks Oscar
A major Oscar for the Caribbean? I’d love to see it happen, and a combination of the wonderful movies that have come out of Jamaica over...
DVD Reviews – July/August 2010
Catching the festival on film The highlight of the year for many Londoners, Notting Hill Carnival takes place over two days at the end of...
Marlin Madness: masters of the deep
It’s 5am on a warm, overcast morning and I’m negotiating a wobbly exit from the pirogue which has taxied me out from Tobago’s Pigeon...
Ziggy Marley: R is for reggae
There’s a small kindergarten in a rural parish of Jamaica called Chepstowe Elementary School. It looks like any other kindergarten, with...
Nelly Stharre: woman of the earth
Ten years ago, when I saw Nelly Stharre on stage in Dominica for the first time, she sang songs that made the hair on the back of my neck...
Maracas goes green
If you like golf or have always wanted to try it, but you’re not ready for the big league, there’s another choice out there: miniature...
Rex Nettleford: a king among men
An ordinary man of extraordinary accomplishments – that was Rex Nettleford. An extraordinary man of ordinary life and circumstances –...
Shiva Ragoonanan: feat of clay
When he became a potter at 15, Shiva Ragoonanan learned to make deyas, small earthenware lamps (they fit in your hand) which are filled...
