Every September, Guyana honours its Indigenous history and culture with arts and craft, cuisine, games, performances, and much more Roughly 10% of Guyana’s population is Indigenous, like Mark Andries (pictured navigating a canoe on the Essequibo River), a member of the Macushi tribe. Communities like his fish with bow and arrow; create jewellery with seeds, …
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This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring reviews by Nigel Campbell of new music by Angela Hunte; Coutain & Dwala; D-Achee; and Juss Lizz Angela Hunte Mángó (Self Released) Trinidadian-American Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Angela Hunte has released a new album that smartly incorporates the rhythms and tropes of most of the hippest music from …
With a restored, 4K version of Soy Cuba — the Soviet-Cuban propaganda film released in 1964 — having been re-released earlier this year, James Ferguson looks at why this documentary on pre-revolutionary Cuba, largely rejected by Cubans and Soviets alike, has been rescued from history and is now considered a landmark cinematic masterpiece The post …
His journey to his current position — witness his blitz against Afghanistan at this year’s T20 World Cup — was charted in the moments that he first picked up a cricket bat. “I always had one dream, to be a professional cricketer,” says Nicholas Pooran (who turns 29 this October). “I knew for a fact …
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Celebration time The skills of the world’s most exciting T20 batsmen and bowlers are on show at cricket pitches across the region during the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) tournament (29 August–6 October) — the “biggest party in sport”. For a change of pace, Campechada (31 August–1 September) — inspired by renowned playwright Victoria Espinosa and …
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My disability is a blessing on most days because it’s made me who I am. I choose it to be one. People think disabilities are a curse and get depressed because they think it’ll keep them back. The only thing that keeps me back is me. Simultaneously, I’m not so blasé to think that there …
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St Thomas, commonly referred to as the “forgotten parish”, is located in the eastern part of Jamaica, and boasts a reputation as the established home of Kumina — also known as Kalunga or Kadunga. Travelling from Kingston into the parish is a battle between humans, vehicular traffic, stray animals, heat, and dust from a highway …
Trinidadian-Canadian director Richard Fung talks to Jonathan Ali about his documentary The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo The writer Harold Sonny Ladoo — born and raised in Trinidad, later domiciled in Canada — had the briefest of careers, and lives. No Pain Like This Body (1973), his first novel — which evokes with high poetry …
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About 2.5% of the Amazon rainforest is found in Suriname, a country criss-crossed by some 3,000 miles of rivers and waterways, like the gently flowing Suriname River Tucked away between French Guiana in the east, Guyana in the west, and Brazil in the south, Suriname is home to countless beguiling species of flora and fauna …
In May of 2024, the jukebox musical on the life of pioneering female calypsonian Calypso Rose made its debut in Trinidad & Tobago. Queen of the Road: the Calypso Rose Story detailed her life and development over 40 calypsos, and — critically — showed the misogyny of rival calypsonians and a male-centred society that all …