Tag Archives: Vaneisa Baksh

A friend asked why I love the CPL. Truth be told, the cricket itself is not the primary attraction, although the matches have been exciting and fiercely competitive. How many times have I found lumps in my throat? The sight of Sir Viv Richards at the stadium named after him …

In October 1995, I was part of a fellowship offered by the Committee to Protect Journalists. A dozen or so journalists from around the world were included and we met in Washington for a week before heading out to different newspapers. I had chosen New Orleans because I felt it …

My bossy back demands an extreme degree of planning if I am to venture out. Sitting or standing for an hour or so is about as much as it can take without making the following days painfully unpleasant. But when Jackie Hinkson sent me an invitation to the QRC Art …

When I reach into the freezer for something from my hoard of cooked dishes, I am often reminded of the origins. The oildown from when breadfruit kept calling me, and I was roasting, mashing, and cubing obsessively. A version of a shepherd’s pie with small chunks of stewed goat nestling …

She wasn’t one of my regular produce vendors—her stall was just off my usual tracks and her array of vegetables and herbs was not wide. One day, she had chataigne. I had been craving it for some time. The only place I’d seen it was selling it frozen (cleaned and …

Ask someone for help to resolve an issue and more often than not they will tell you that YouTube is your friend. It can sort out all sorts of technical things and show you how to fix or assemble gadgets and devices. Google it, they say. Today’s challenges are solved …

I was a fair way into my column when the call came. It was from one of the sharpest, most beautiful minds I know. He is not even forty, but he has accumulated wisdom far beyond his years—partly because he has lived a life that has been buffeted from all …

I have a question—a few actually. They are related to the policies at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, commonly known as Mt Hope hospital. I was genuinely perplexed at the procedures regarding patients who had been admitted through the Accident and Emergency portal. People complain about the waiting period …

Before international matches begin, it has become customary to play the national anthems of the teams. It wasn’t always so. In fact, that helped the West Indies cricket team avoid the dilemma of finding a song that represented its constituents fairly. Ours was (and still is) the only multi-national Test …

For some time, the thought of approaching a memoir as a collection of essays has been floating about. Assembling memories in the hope that they might make for useful reading means committing to candour and truth. People’s feelings have to be taken into account. What to include, what to leave …

Hard to imagine that Sade is 67. For decades, she wooed the world with her mellifluous voice and songs about passion. I suspect many people believed themselves to be madly in love at her behest. How easy it is to float away on the cloud of Kiss of Life! Listening …

For those who might have wondered about the absence of my column last week, the Express has decided that it only requires my offerings fortnightly. I had already begun writing when I was told, so I continued. I’d listened to three episodes of the Corie Sheppard Podcast on Carnival Tuesday. …