Every June, Caribbean Heritage Month invites the world to pay proper attention to one of the most extraordinary civilisations in human history. Most years, the world gives it a half-glance…
By this point in the Caribbean Heritage Month series, we have established some things. We have established that Caribbean food is the most complex convergence cuisine in history. That Caribbean…
There is a test worth trying. Ask someone — anyone, educated, curious, engaged with the world — to name five famous Caribbean women from history. Not musicians, not athletes, not…
Here is a question that most people never think to ask: how do you talk to someone when you share no language with them? Not as a tourist trying to…
Let us put a number to this before we go any further. The entire Caribbean region covers roughly 275,000 square kilometres — about the size of New Mexico. Its total…
Here is a thought experiment. Sit down at a typical Trinidadian Sunday lunch. On the table in front of you: roti, curry chicken, callaloo, rice and peas, macaroni pie, sorrel…
There is a question that Caribbean people are used to being asked — usually at a dinner table in London, or a barbecue in Brooklyn, or a work meeting in…
On May 30, 1845, a ship named the Fatel Rozack docked in Trinidad. 225 people stepped ashore. They had been at sea for 103 days. They had crossed the Kala…
