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Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Grenada

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...

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Culture, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, People, Dominica

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...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Barbados

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...

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Culture, Technology, People, Barbados

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...

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Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Literature, People, United Kingdom, St. Kitts and Nevis

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...

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Community, Culture, Guyana

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...

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