ELMA NAPIER REMEMBERED It is 50 years this month since the death of Elma Napier, writer, pioneering environmentalist, and the first woman to sit in a West Indian House of Assembly. She arrived in Dominica via Scotland, her birthplace; Australia where she went with her first husband; Tahiti where she travelled with her second husband, Lennox Napier, and London. Her home in Dominica was in...

My Ti Kai, My Home. Olive Bell Olive Bell, the Dominican architect remembers life in a tikai as a child and how that experience inspired her to become an architect. Olive Bell was part of the team who collaborated on the making of the just published book, 'Still Standing', about the vernacular architecture of Dominica. She grew up in a ti kai on the island. Here she reflects on her childhood...

Making connections Women Writers Making connections... Three white women writers of Dominica - Jean Rhys, now the subject of a new and much acclaimed biography by Miranda Seymour, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, writer and politician, and Elma Napier, also writer, politician and early environmentalist. Here, superimposed on the elegant cover of the Rhys biography are the covers of books by Allfrey (The...