WE LIVE IN A WALL HOUSE Stephen Braffit was around eight years old and lived in a modest chattel house in the village. He was
Month: March 2016
HE PUT A LI’L MAN ‘PON SHE Thani was an East Indian immigrant to Barbados and, like many of the other East Indians did an
JOE COMIN’ IN TOWN TONIGHT It’s Friday night in Baxters Road in Bridgetown. Baxters Road is festive with street vendors cooking fishcakes, shark, and flying
SHE NAME PIN ‘PON SHE Dialect is a funny thing. In Barbados, before independence, if one spoke dialect it generally indicated someone with little education.
UNLIKELY HERO It was a rainy, gloomy day, around hurricane season. Everyone was inside because they knew that a storm was on its way. Some
DO, DADDY, DO! I EN’ GINE DO IT AGIN! Henry was a mischievous red kid with freckles who loved to play pranks on the other
YOU EN’ TO PLAY IN DE STREET The village of Chimborazo sat atop the highest point on the island by the same name, Mt. Chimborazo.