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Freedom: The Class of 2021

Taking on the world in leaps and bounds: The Translator, a COVID-19 hero of The Gathering. Artwork Copyright © 2020 by Tré Greaves.…

Robert Edison Sandiford·October 17, 2022
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The Light of Dawn

Saint Lucian children's author Dawn French and her good friend Peanut. AMONG THE JEWELS that make up the Caribbean archipelago is Saint…

Zoanne Evans·May 5, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.

Winning Words: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister, Re: #NelsonMustGo

In plenty and in time of need When this fair land was young Our brave forefathers sowed the seed From which our pride is sprung A pride…

Alex Downes·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.

Winning Words: On Race and Whiteness from the Context of Barbados #1

IN THIS GLOBAL #BlackLivesMatter moment, we are seeing a shift in conversations about race and it feels like a tipping point. White people…

Annalee Davis·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.

Winning Words: Heinz 57, Maybe?

MANY BARBADIANS consider me white. At CBC, the late Terry Mayers said no matter what I do or how I think and feel I’ll always be treated as…

Ian Bourne·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.

Winning Words: Government’s shameless power grab on back of COVID-19

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Sir Winston Churchill told the people of the Empire at the height of World War II they were not fighting for glory…

Albert Brandford·January 19, 2022
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Freedom: The Class of 2022

Robert Edison Sandiford·January 18, 2022
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BOOKS, RACE AND POLITICS

“Mutual understanding in the world being nearly always, as now, at low ebb, it is comforting to remember that it is through art that one…

Robert Edison Sandiford·August 17, 2021
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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
Cover of The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2017/2018.

Winning Words: Ode to the Bajan Blackbirds

BARBADOS' FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY celebrations come and gone and nobody ain’t say yuh cat, yuh dog, ’bout we. Sometimes yuh have to wonder if…

Jeffrey Walcott·May 11, 2020
Image of Kendra by Dean Currency, March 2020.

Freedom: The Class of 2020

The mighty Kendra. Illustration Copyright © 2020 by Dean Currency. Comments courtesy of the 2020 graduating class of BFA graphics students…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 11, 2019
Writers Ink Barbados, From the Cover of Bazaar, Vol 1, 2007.

Mapping Barbados’ LitScape

MAPPING BARBADOS’ LITSCAPE is an ArtsEtc project to track and document Barbados’ very rich and diverse literary tradition. At our house,…

Robert Edison Sandiford·June 27, 2019

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