Most tourists to the Caribbean rarely venture outside the safety of their resorts to discover life beyond the fences, a world of poverty and violence. Sometimes, as happened last week in Antigua, that outside world breaks in with tragic results. Kei Miller, a Jamaican poet who teaches writing at Glasgow University, looks at what has gone wrong in Caribbean societies
If you go on vacation to the Caribbean, it is not likely you will get to see or experience it. Around the beachfront property in which you are staying, there will be a high fence. Like all fences, it keeps things out. Mainly, it keeps the Caribbean out.
