Calabash 08 will bring some of the most accomplished authors and performers from Jamaica and the wider world to its famous stage at Jakes in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, this Labour Day Weekend— Friday, May 23–25.

If the measure of a writer’s success is the ire he provokes, then V. S. Naipaul is a spectacular success in Trinidad.

It was the wind that woke her, bringing a cloud of dirt and the revolting odour she now realised had come from her own putrid limbs.