Highlights Archives

The Vagrant, the Ring and the Pothound

by ap | Feb 3, 2023 | Fiction, Highlights, KIRK BUDHOORAM, PREE 10 | 0 |

No one ever chooses to be a vagrant. A beggar, maybe. Now, that’s a career choice. But a vagrant? Hell, no. That is a result of the government closing down state-owned enterprises instead of restructuring, the banks stealing from your savings account under the guise of transactional fees and the creation of second-rate tertiary-education schools that hand out degrees to undeserving students who eventually take your job.

Don’t Go Under the Coconut Tree

by ap | Feb 3, 2023 | Fiction, Highlights, LUKE ELLIOTT, PREE 10 | 1 |

I knew all my “what ifs” would be shared by my husband, and I knew they were unhelpful. Why this place to have this family? Why this land? Should we have been more open? Was it fair to have had him at all? None of these can be answered. But I take a moment’s pleasure in imagining different timelines where he’s still here, still running around, still laughing his toothy laugh, eyes full of wonder.

Beach as Plot?

by ap | Apr 19, 2020 | Annalee Davis, Art-icles, Articles 5, Highlights, PREE 5 | 0 |

In this article artist Annalee Davis draws a thread between the one-dimensional notion of tourism as the panacea for small island economies (with a particular focus on Barbados), and the potential role of contemporary visual art and artists in offering other lenses through which we can see ourselves and consider our contexts. COVID-19 will infect this text. How can it not?

ALL THAT WOULD BE

by ap | Apr 18, 2020 | Fiction 5, Highlights, Lise Ragbir, PREE 5 | 0 |

LISE RAGBIR

Long before the turtles stopped burying their eggs in the sand of narrowing beaches, and fishermen stopped dragging nets into the sea, and tourists stopped taking selfies at plantation houses…

Bullshit, Sweet-talk, and Hindu Nationalism

by ap | Apr 18, 2020 | Highlights, Kris Singh, Non fiction 5, PREE 5 | 0 |

KRIS SINGH

An extended rumination on cows, the cow’s central place in Indian culture, Hindu culture, being an East Indian West Indian and other intersecting dilemmas.

Crocodile Tears

by ap | Apr 18, 2020 | Fiction 5, Highlights, PREE 5, Roland Watson-Grant | 2 |

ROLAND WATSON-GRANT

Well look, social media more vicious than crocodile. It will hunt you. Sooner or later, once social media gets a taste of your business, it will bite into your privacy and never let go. After that, side-chick come outta hospital and start throw all kinda shade on Instagram. Crocodile Tears by Roland Watson-Grant. In which humans and a wily old croc wrestle each other for control of a once iconic beach in Jamaica

Jewellery for Re-Membering in the Afterlife of Slavery: A View From the Disappearing Beach

by ap | Apr 17, 2020 | Highlights, Maziki Thame, Non fiction 5, PREE 5 | 1 |

MAZIKI THAME

A lyrical yet hard-hitting essay about erosions–of a beach central to the lives of many Jamaicans, of ways of life, of relationships.

On Hidden Scars and the Passive Voice[1]

by ap | Apr 17, 2020 | Highlights, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Non fiction 5, PREE 5, Revisit | 1 |

NAHIR I. OTAÑO GRACIA

I was watching Spike Lee’s documentary When the Levees Broke. The most powerful scene for me was when Lee shows footage after footage of news anchors calling the people of New Orleans “refugees.”