NOV, 2021 Bookshelves the world over owe a debt of gratitude to the Caribbean literary tradition. The region’s writers, Nobel Laureates, hometown heroes et al, continue to share the West Indian experience from a variety of vantages, languaging something that’s better off lived. Cindy Allman probably includes a prayer for the health of our giants […]
A few days in Grenada leave only impressions like snapshots taken from a speeding vehicle. There is just enough time for your eye to click the shutter and capture the image, but not enough to really understand the world around you. Grenada seems like the Caribbean we only see in postcards. There are no high-rise buildings and […]
Sometimes in the bush, you find things you did not know you were looking for. Sometimes it’s courage, laughter, wonder or pain. Sometimes it’s seeing parts of yourself that you did not know were even there. Something about walking, climbing, falling, getting up, all surrounded by wet green, not knowing how much further you have […]
Sometimes in a rare, fleeting moment on a rainy day in Port of Spain, you can be in the right place at the right time and the city looks like somewhere else. It becomes a blue, green and grey place — still with its hard edges and unyielding buildings, but somehow soft. In these moments […]
