Byron Lee: Soca Dragon
Jamaican bandleader Byron Lee has had an enormous influence on Jamaica's music - not least by becoming a missionary for Trinidad soca and Carnival.
Issue 30 (March/April 1998)
Reviews of new books and music; happenings around the islands; the 31st Annual Antigua Sailing Week; Barbados’ Holder’s Season; St Lucia’s annual Festival of Comedy; nesting turtles in Trinidad; places to visit while in London; master mariner Roger Paine reveals his favouite Caibbean sailing trip & his favourite islands; the life and career of Jamaican soca dragon Byron Lee; Cliff recieves honorary degree from UWI; Winston Nanan: othnologist, photographer & the guardian of the Caroni Swamp; motorsport in the Caribbean; the Caribbean’s attempts to develop its own film industry; 1998 swimwear lines from T&T design house, Casuals; and much more!
Wanted: Caribbean Film Investors with Imagination
Most film-makers still think of the Caribbean as a setting rather than a subject, and the region's own directors and producers remain obscure
Winston Nanan and the Caroni Swamp
If Trinidad's Caroni Swamp is famous for its spectacular flocks of Scarlet Ibis; Winston Nanan is its champion
Toussaint Triumph
That the Black Jacobins, one of the greatest of Caribbean histories, was ever published is thanks, in part at least, to one Henry Spencer
