Mountains of memory: Jamaica’s Cockpit Country
Viewed from above, it’s immediately apparent why this region was dubbed “The Cockpits” by British soldiers in the seventeenth...
Keys to the coral kingdom: protecting Caribbean reefs
A pinhead. Worth US$375 billion. Annually. This is the magical mathematics of coral: a microscopic organism, invisible to the naked eye,...
Kei Miller: “On this island things fidget”
What the Mapmaker Ought to Know On this island things fidget. Even history. The landscape does not sit willingly as if behind an easel,...
A library of their own: Grenada’s Mt Zion project
As a child, Ayisha John looked forward to the days her mother took her to the library. Five blocks from where she lived in Hyattsville,...
One for the road: Trinidad & Tobago’s biggest road march hits
Hard to believe it’s that time again — it seems like just yesterday Trinidad and Tobago’s 2013 Carnival was wrapping up, and now the...
Neila Ebanks: no boundaries
Neila Ebanks’s forearm is a clue to her personality. It bears the tattooed words “integrity is freedom,” an open reminder of a...
Trinidad Carnival: back to the future
“I don’t play Midnight Robber — I am one” The first time Fédon Honoré performed as a Midnight Robber, he forgot half his speech....
Need for speed: Renée “Buttaz” Edwards and Lisa “Lisalis” Abraham
On the track, strapped in, engines revving, Antiguan drag racers Renée “Buttaz” Edwards and Lisa “Lisalis” Abraham are defying...
