More than 200 pieces of archival material from the collection of late Jamaican actress, broadcaster and educator, Leonie Forbes, have been donated to the National Library of Jamaica in Kingston. The collection, comprising manuscripts, trophies,.
“If it wasn’t for reggae music I wouldn’t be sitting here today,” Linton Kwesi Johnson told his audience at last month’s Bocas LitFest, and for some of the audience that was also true, thanks to LKJ himself. His music – a spacey dub of drum and bass, with that huge, deep, deadpan, doom-laden voice booming
Roydon Salick’s Mayaro Gold: The Fiction of Michael Anthony was published this month by Ian Randle Publishers. It is one of the books presented this year at the Bocas Lit Fest, taking place from April 28 to 30, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Ken Ramchand describes the book as an “introductory study [that] understands well…
The influence of Trinidad-born, US-based Caribbeanist scholar Sandra Pouchet Paquet in shaping decades of intellectual and critical thought is impossible to understate, the Bocas Lit Fest has said. The festival is awarding her the 2023 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters, in recognition of her pioneering contributions to academia, literature and
Fifty-seven of the Caribbean’s most exceptional sons and daughters have been bestowed with the Sabga Award for Caribbean Excellence since its inception in 2006. Author Joanne C Hillhouse is the first person from Antigua and Barbuda to receive this honour. On March 1, in Port of Spain, the Chairman of…