West Indian Migration – Final Episode

Windrush photo

Limited housing choices, was perhaps one of the reasons why some men began living with European women. Another reason was the lure of “forbidden fruit”. Back home, they would not have had the opportunity to become romantically involved with such women. In those days, the few European women in the Caribbean would have been at […]

Waves: Re-think Launches in London

TTIFS Official

LONDON, 20th February 2013 – Waves: Re-think, the Trinidad and Tobago installation of the International Fashion Showcase was launched at the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in London on Monday 18th February during London Fashion Week. Lisa See Tai, Mark Eastman and Darcel de Vlugt presented a capsule collection to a mixed crowd of fashion […]

British Reggae Industry Awards (B.R.I.A) tonight!

David Rodigan.

We would like announce the long awaited return of British Reggae Industry Awards (B.R.I.A) The British Reggae Industry Award (B.R.I.A.) was first established in 1981 to acknowledge British reggae artists for their dedication and contribution to reggae music. The mission has not changed, but has been revitalized because of the continuous interest for reggae music. […]

Saint Lucia Hosts Major International Sport Conference

Fortuna Belrose St Lucia

CASTRIES, ST. LUCIA: The Caribbean has produced some of the world’s most outstanding athletes and most recognised faces yet the business of sport remains a fledgling enterprise, despite the millions invested. Between June 10th-23rd 2013, Saint Lucia will play host to a major new initiative, the Sport in Black & White Conference and Youth Forum […]

How was your Valentines?

Valentine’s Day for me was awesome.  It was pure love; it was like what it says in Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of […]

Letter to the Government of St Lucia

British police in St Lucia

“As for a man wandering from the way of insight, he will rest in the very congregation of those impotent in death” – Proverbs 21:16  Dear Sir,  Universal greetings! It is with deep despair I write this letter to your office. My purpose for writing is twofold. First, I would like to extend my heartfelt […]

The Age of Obama

A series of stories on a complex, new, and swiftly moving global paradigm, that spells a major shift of economic power away from the North Atlantic to the Asian Pacific  Time Magazine named US President Barack Obama 2012 person of the year. This wasn’t surprising to this Observer of life in all its various forms. […]

New champions in Saint Vincent school basketball

Bequia Community High

FEBRUARY 2013; KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Bouccament Secondary School female basketball team waltzed away with the 2013 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Secondary School Girls Basketball Championship on Sunday evening with a 77 – 37 demolition of Bishop’s College. Despite as mix-up over the starting time and the attendant frustrations as to […]

Do Bajans really hate Jamaicans…?

We are well aware that many of the great wars of history weren’t started or fuelled by citizens of two or more countries hating one another but from diplomatic fallout that led to military action. The Gulf war also known as Operation Desert Storm was not provoked by American citizens hating Iraqi citizens but by […]