Carnival hideouts
Trinidad Carnival is the greatest show on earth — right? But let’s be honest: some years you just can’t face the music, or the...
Datebook (November/December 2012)
BARBADOS Grab a bite… Come November, chefs across Barbados turn up the temperature for the Barbados Food & Wine and Rum Festival....
Word of Mouth (November/December 2012)
Parade of lights Neil Marks on the illuminated motorcades of Guyanese Diwali Every Diwali (or Divali, as Trinis spell it), Hindus turn...
Bookshelf (November/December 2012)
Our pick The Ladies Are Upstairs, by Merle Collins (Peepal Tree Press, 160 pp, ISBN 9781845231798) Employing short fiction to span a...
Playlist (November/December 2012)
Our pick The Return, by Morgan Heritage (VP Records) After a four-year hiatus, the other royal family of Jamaican reggae has reunited with...
The truth about eggs…and more
Behold the egg: symmetrically exquisite yet not boring; familiar but capable of surprise. The source of life, yes, but better, the source...
The buzz
Her majesty Reggaeton — a cross-cultural musical fusion of Jamaican dancehall rhythms, US-style hip-hop, Latin American vocals, and...
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2012)
Our pick Huracan, by Diana McCaulay (Peepal Tree Press, 291 pp, ISBN 9781845231965) 1986: Leigh McCaulay, a white Jamaican who migrated to...
