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Nelson vs. Wilberforce [in Barbados]

Workmen removing the statue from its base ahead of its removal within the next hour; the ceremony is expected to begin at 4PM; Lord Nelson…

Trevor Marshall·November 24, 2020
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A Review of Unraveling

Unraveling, the new novel from World Fantasy Award nominee Karen Lord, is on one level a mystery: a serial killer, Walther Grey, murdered…

Ceridwen Christensen·November 8, 2020
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A Review of Canouan Suite and Other Pieces

Paintings can sometimes speak words; poems will occasionally offer vistas. These aren’t contradictions, but conclusions that St…

Shivanee Ramlochan·November 8, 2020
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A Review of Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow

Christine Barrow, who made Barbados her home for nearly fifty years, delivers a masterclass in short fiction’s powers of subtlety with her…

Shivanee Ramlochan·November 8, 2020
Photo by John Robert Lee for "Collage" poem--"socially distanced," November 2020.
Poetry

Collage

Photo Copyright © 2020 by John Robert Lee—socially distanced. for Ann-Margaret Lim “To the saints who are in Ephesus.” Ephesians 1:1…

John Robert Lee·November 8, 2020
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A Review of Pick of the Crop

Nailah Folami Imoja's novel Pick of the Crop (Heinemann, 106pp., paperback, 0-435-98966-9) opens with a familiar, Bajan, boys-on-the-block…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 8, 2020
ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane pointing toward the Statue of Nelson in Bridgetown, St Michael, June 2020.
Blog

Tek de brute down—Barbados’ Nelson must fall, and how

At last! Bajans seem up for the takedown of the statue of Lord Nelson. Photo of ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane pointing the way copyright ©…

Linda M. Deane·July 28, 2020
The Gathering, Part 1, Aquarina, Jenisa Reed, 2020.
News

THE GATHERING: Barbados’ strike force against the COVID-19 pandemic  

PROLOGUE: NEVER RETREAT, NEVER SURRENDER Story, Script and Illustrations by the Research Methods Class of 2020 Jaleel ARTHUR Taaj deRUSHE…

2020·June 20, 2020
AE Editor Linda M. Deane with her children, Izora and Anderson, at a Black Lives Matter demonstration held in Bridgetown June 13, 2020.
Blog

What black mothers go through every George Floyd time

Our Global Spring: ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane (right) and her children, Andy and Izora, march in Bridgetown June 13, 2020, for what…

Linda M. Deane·June 14, 2020
Zoanne Evans, founder of Kids in Action, with her kids at Queen's Park.
Studios

Zoanne Evans: The Kids in Action Story

IT WAS twenty-three years ago that I stood before a class of students at the start of the Michaelmas term and breathlessly asked them what…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 31, 2020
Past Issues

Nos 23 & 24: Vanishing times ’n’ signs

Published: March/April 2008 Theme: Barbados…The Change Issue Cover: Stand-pipe 1, Vol. 1, Rono Weekes, 48” x 60”, acrylic on canvas, 2007…

May 21, 2020
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Poetry

Castles

Keep watch over her. She will sculpt sandcastles on the shores of her mind And give way for the sun to solidify them. She will expect the…

Racquel Griffith·May 20, 2020
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