Canary-led miner escapes harmful gas (Shutterstock)
Escaping mine gas. (Shutterstock)

Caribbean Canary

Celebrate the unique role played for centuries by the English-speaking Caribbean 

Relief

In March, 2020 the United Kingdom tested 26,000 people for  an illness that had taken six lives. Then the rate of Corona virus deaths rose. Explosively!

The country locked down. 

Like this elated mother and daughter, you survived a lockdown not seen in London since the time Britain entered the Caribbean.

immense relief at end of lockdown
Relief as lockdown ended (Shutterstock)
mountain peak seen from the sea
No place offers clarity quite like Nevis. (Shutterstock)

The Caribbean

No place quite clarifies the gap between two lockdowns in London the way Nevis does. 

No month lends clarity quite like March 2026, when Heads of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states spent a conference day in Nevis. 

First Courses

I spent most of my childhood in Trinidad. Between ages four and seven however, I lived with my grandmother, Florence and one of ny  older [...]

Leaving Home introduces this salute to four hundred years of the English-speaking Caribbean.
To show the immediate significance of its [...]

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Why wait until a fifteen-year old casually takes hundred-dollar notes out of his pocket? In full view of classmates? What if one of his classmates came to school without lunch, and with no ticket to get home? What if the act of leaving home took courage when often, that classmate did not attend school because […]