Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Grenada
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 112 (November/December 2011)
Cooking for Mount Cinnamon
I was born in the road. My mom was hurrying to go to the hospital and she didn’t reach, so I was born in the road. I was born in 1971. My...
Culture, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Rodney Granado ● Issue 112 (November/December 2011)
Sheldon Bissessar: the Trinidad Rocket races ahead
Sheldon Bissessar is known as the Trinidad Rocket, and no wonder – he drives cars that roar down the drag strip at over 200 miles an...
By Raymond Ramcharitar ● Issue 112 (November/December 2011)
Lennox Honychurch: icon of the island
Driving around Dominica with Lennox Honychurch can be a little disconcerting. If he’s driving, he stops every few minutes to give someone...
Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 29 (January/February 1998)
Chef Hans Schweitzer
Hans Schweitzer’s five-by-seven-foot office in the main kitchen of the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados harbours everything from a computer...
Culture, Technology, People, Barbados
By Lorraine Jones ● Issue 29 (January/February 1998)
Going Solar: Oliver Headley’s Sun Traps
One night in 1957, the calm of a district in Barbados known as Mile And A Quarter was shattered by the launch of a home-made rocket...
Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 28 (November/December 1997)
Bachacs: No Surrender
My tiny garden in England gave me few problems. If it looked parched in the summer, that was because of the hosepipe bans, and it always...
Culture, Literature, People, United Kingdom, St. Kitts and Nevis
By James Ferguson ● Issue 27 (September/October 1997)
Caryl Phillips: Playing Away
“Yes, there are meant to be two-line breaks between the paragraphs here.” “OK, Ismael, we’ll discuss that next time.” “Well, if...
By Janette Forte ● Issue 27 (September/October 1997)
Amerindian Guyana
It’s the height of the rainy season, in July, and several Makushi women are talking about the uniforms their children need for the new...