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Feels Like I’m Home Again
“Raga Beenie children fall in line.” – Anthony “Rebel” Bailey I officially retired from the party scene in 2006 – after almost 20 years of partying and more than a decade of covering entertainment as a...
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Her Death Taught Me To Live
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ― Rose...
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Journey Beyond Paradise
As the holiday cheer heightens and the countdown to 2013 draws near, I find myself reflecting on my journey from Barbados to New York and the remarkable progress I’ve made over these past few years. I...
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My Favorite High School Teacher – A Reunion
It’s with bittersweet feelings that I write this piece. As I type, I’m sitting in my “window seat” on a Jet Blue aircraft which took off from the tropical shores of my beautiful homeland Barbados to...
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The Power Of The “V”
From the time I was a little girl growing up in Barbados, I was always told that there’s power in the “V”. Today, more than ever, I’m convinced of this. Not that I didn’t buy into it as a child. After...
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Ode To My Man
Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps had mad passion in love n basketball But lemme tell ya, dem ent want nuttin wid me and my Bajan man at all. R& R Honey Farms, Sister Marshall snow cones, nor de cane...
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To Me She Was Carolyn
Were she still alive, Barbadian calypsonian Carolyn “Tassa” Forde would have turned 44 today. I originally wrote the following tribute when she died in 2011. I am reposting now on the occasion of her...
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Doing It With Love: A Sweet Soca Story
I was a teenage student in my native Barbados when I bought my first album. In fact, it was not one, but two albums and they couldn’t be more different. One was “Tapestry” by Carole King and both the...
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I Love Her And I Don’t Care What You Think
I’ve been in love with her from the first time I laid my eyes on her. No, I’m not talking about loving my mother, or my sister, or grandmother. But she means as much to me as these special and most...
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Why I’m Not Leaving My Abusive Relationship
Some relationships are just so special that despite the trials, we fight to preserve them. This is not your conventional relationship, but if you've ever had this unconditional love for another, you'll...
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A New Chapter Begins For Me; It’s Handled
On this my “25th” (*cough*) birthday, I want to briefly testify of God’s grace in my life. I had no plans to make any of the following information public anytime soon, but I see the need to share it to...
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Doing It With Love: A Sweet Soca Story
I was a teenage student in my native Barbados when I bought my first album. In fact, it was not one, but two albums and they couldn’t be more different. One was “Tapestry” by Carole King and both the...
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It’s My 25th Birthday – Again! And I’m Happy And Thankful
Every year since I turned 25 for the 10th time, as I approached my birthday, I’ve had a tendency to get depressed. Not because I’m sorry to be aging or to be in the land of the living. Oh no, I’m...
View ArticleIt’s My Birthday: Me At 4, Er 25, Looking Back At My Sweet 16 Self
Man, if only this lil girl here (Left) at sweet 16 — looking at life through rose colo(u)red glasses — knew the challenges ahead, starting with the tragic death of her best friend a year later and how...
View ArticleHarold Hoyte: Heart Of The Nation Barbados, Thank You, RIP
This is the only photo I have of Harold Hoyte, co-founder, former editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of The Nation Publishing Ltd, Barbados and me, along with former colleague, Haydn Gill. Despite...
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