The adrenalin comes in rushes. Glorious Caribbean mornings and nights packed with possibilities pump some sort of cosmic energy into everyone. A party becomes a celebration of life. Music brings moods that change the psyche forever.
Carnival is a certain kind of consciousness where...
Haitian Writer Edwidge Danticat and the Caribbean's Extreme
By Anu Lakhan
Edwidge Danticat remembers all the women whose ghosts fill her past and her blood. Her memory is a vivid recording of Haitian women's history, with each of its multiple layers colouring the next. She...
Two University of the West Indies departments at Mona have received US$50,000 for licensing a software package to a United States software manufacturer. The money is the first installment in a contract worth US$115,000 over five years for a programme called the JCAMP-DX viewer. It is licensed to...
Summer's here again, and the usual frenzy has already begun for those still trapped in teenage years. School is out and all their angst is on the loose. Exactly what to do in the next possibly boring two months is the main concern. It's the biggest and perhaps the most difficult decision...
Errol Miller, Green Lizard Press, 1997
BY Sharon Kelly-Stair
If our children are ill-mannered, disrespectful, foul mouthed bullies.....blame the system! If our children are greedy, grasping ne'er do wells....blame the system! And who may the system be, one might ask, why...