Oct 3, 2026
The Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Allfrey is a challenging novel to describe. It is a story about a White family on the Caribbean island of Dominica grappling with a rapidly changing colonial landscape following the end of the Second World War. They find themselves in...
Feb 15, 2025
The second and final part of my visit to the Kalinago Territory in Dominica involved a tour of Kalinago Barana Autê (i.e., the Carib Cultural Village by the Sea). When we arrived in the hamlet of Salybia in the mid-afternoon it seemed rather quiet, with a mere handful...
Feb 8, 2025
The highlight of my first ever trip to Dominica was without a doubt my visit to the Kalinago Territory (formerly known as the Carib Territory), an area established for the indigenous Kalinago people who inhabited the region prior to European colonization and...
Jan 25, 2025
In yet another adventure in Dominica, I went to visit the village of Massacre, which is widely perpetuated in Dominica as “Massac.” As the name indubitaly alludes, this was the site of a massacre of indigenous Kalinago Indians by the British way back in...
Jan 18, 2025
Happy new year to you🎉! It’s been a while since I posted a blog and boy do I have some exciting news to share. The past three weeks I have been on a whirlwind (mostly) holiday trip to the Caribbean, in which I visted four beautiful islands: Trinidad, Barbados,...
Kiran Dellimore
