At its core, this is a story about The Departure Contract. It posits that migration in the Caribbean is rarely an individual act of ambition, but rather a collective family investment. When one person leaves, they carry the survival of the entire bloodline in their suitcase. The narrative follows the physical evolution of this help: starting with the heavy, blue plastic shipping barrels packed with flour and soap in the seventies, moving to the predatory wire-transfer booths of the nineties, and ending with the cold, instant pings of digital wallets today.
U‑Roy’s microphone changed Caribbean history. Long before rap blazed through the Bronx, the Kingston deejay known as “The Originator” revolutionized Jamaican sound‑system culture with...
Step into the sacred shadowlands of Jamaican folklore — where ancestral memory hides behind every ghost story, every duppy tale, every whispered warning about...
In 1990, a televised coup attempt brought Trinidad and Tobago to its knees. But the smoke from the Red House was only the beginning....
