When Perry met Sally Henzell
It was 1960, and Jamaica was hopping: everyone could smell the sea breeze of great change blowing in the air. A dashing young filmmaker...
Off the beaten track in Tobago
One of the clichés of the Caribbean goes like this: cool refreshing drink in hand, you sit beachside, contemplating the waves and the...
The Calabash runs dry
The news that the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica will not be happening this May was greeted with disappointment not...
Levi Roots: singing for his supper
Green banana and celery soup; sweet lime and Angostura Bitters chicken bits with saffron rice and salad; and a dessert of boozy bananas,...
Rock steady rules
Rock steady, the music that came after ska and before reggae, ruled Jamaica for much of the mid-Sixties. It was, by all accounts, a golden...
Film Reviews – January/February 2010
Master of the mas Jonathan Ali Will Peter Minshall produce another Carnival band? Since his last outing some four years ago, Trinidad and...
The gift of the past
The bag of negatives came to me as a gift of sorts. A slice of my past, hitherto unknown except for a few small prints in yellowing family...
Harts Carnival: band of the years
This year Harts Ltd will mark a momentous anniversary, having put out 50 bands for Trinidad Carnival. In a celebration of the ephemeral it...
