July 01, 2013
Those heading to Trinidad's carnival are already anticipating the fetes and the carousing, the calypso tents and the pan yards, the masquerade and the music. J'ouvert beckons and the posse at the dam that's been religiously running at 5:30 on mornings had better hope their legs are in...
July 01, 2013
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 freedom...
July 01, 2013
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 recalls some...
July 01, 2013
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...
July 01, 2013
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 to...
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