Category: Cultural Observations

“Forget the cold, forget the snow but bring your honey and mistletoe. We got the sun and we got the sand and we got the time to make you plenty[…]

Arguably the most popular event on the Island is the Oistin Fish Fry! Every Friday night rain or shine starting at about 7:00pm, busloads of tourist,and hundreds people from all[…]

Barbadian decedents live throughout the world. The majority of them can be found in the United States, England and Canada. The migration started in the 1960’s when men and women[…]

Sunday was an ordinary day for Victor. I saw him walking down the Scarborough gap from his Pegwell home. He was carrying a small table, a cooler with drinks and[…]

I was standing in line at a bookstore when an American tourist interrupted the cashier that was making change for a customer and asked “Where are the books in your[…]

Before sun-up at 5:00 am Sunday morning while most of us were still asleep, Chase the coconut man was awake preparing to set up his fruit-stand outside the post office[…]