Nutmeg Trail (2021) portrays the widely loved Grenadian revolutionary, Maurice Bishop, who led the New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation Movement (New JEWEL Movement) beginning in 1973 and served as Grenada’s Prime Minister beginning in 1979 under the People’s Revolutionary Government. In 1983, Bishop was killed in a coup that sparked a deadly intervention by the US military six days later. Painter Denzil Forrester (b. 1956 in Hermitage; lives in Cornwall) depicts Bishop beside a boom box, a recurring motif from his signature scenes of the 1980s dub and reggae scene in London, where nightclubs provided gathering spaces for the Caribbean diaspora.
