You Live and Lime
It takes only five hours to fly from Trinidad to Jamaica; but for a Trini leaving home to spend a year in Jamdown, it would take months to...
The Barcelona Olympics: Hunting Caribbean Gold
Ace cyclist Gene Samuel of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey are the Caribbean’s best medal prospects for the...
Tobago Diving: Landscape of a Dream
It’s a bright, hot October day: the sky an intense blue, the sea deep green. The 55hp Evinrude engine cuts a foaming white swath...
Warning: Carriacou is Addictive
You may not know it, but there is more to Grenada than Grenada. Grenada always tries to outdo the other islands: first woman Governor,...
Wayne Berkeley: Trinidad’s King Carnival
Take a peek inside Wayne Berkeley‘s mas camp, famous throughout Trinidad and Tobago for its organisation and its wide variety of...
St. Lucia’s Llewellyn Xavier: Turning Green
Llewellyn Xavier is slicing an avocado. It is not just a chore. “Look,” he says, “if you cut it across and not...
Dancing To A Single “Dub” Beat
I have this theory that the islands and territories of the West Indian archipelago were once all joined together. Without any sea between...
Beaton at his own game
Norman Beaton arrived home to be interviewed precisely at the appointed time in a stately white 1940s Bentley. His man of business, who was...
