Derek Walcott’s Nobel Works
for what else is there but books, books and the sea, verandahs and the pages of the sea, to write of the wind and the memory of...
Meet the Love BUV: A Caribbean Car
At the ripe old age of 40, American industrialist Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company and made enough money to bathe in by swamping...
A Break in Barbados
In days gone by, Barbados’s climate was one of the most famous in the world. People came visiting from England and America for...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Great Race at 25
The Great Race can lay claim to being the longest-running offshore powerboat event in the world, having not missed a beat since it blasted...
Guyana Gold: A New Tourism
A toucan nibbling gently at my big toe was a new experience. I didn’t fancy his chances of swallowing it, but he seemed determined to...
Mister Theatre: Ken Corsbie
A million tourists do it every year. Columbus did it in 1492, and Ken Corsbie did it in 1971. Yet many people who should do it, haven’t....
Phyllis Alfrey: The Art of Living Together
When the Dominican writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey died in 1986, her coffin was draped with the flag of the West Indies...
Pick of the Crop: Barbados’ Crop Over
There’s an old Barbadian expression for walking the hot midday pavement, usually on a tedious mission: “slapping tar”....
