Back in times in the Barbados Museum
Everybody goes to Barbados for fun in the sun, but there’s more to the island than white-sand beaches and water sports. There’s a rich...
On the Beat: Skye Hernandez on Beat’s 20th anniversary
Like many others, I consider Caribbean Beat the best in-flight magazine I’ve ever come across. It is an encyclopaedia of Caribbean life...
Battleground Tobago: Raising ghosts from a watery grave
Tiny, peaceful Tobago was once the scene of one of the bloodiest sea battles ever fought – one that saw 20 ships destroyed and sunk to...
Soufriere: Beautiful…but deadly
Twenty major volcanic eruptions occurred around the world in 2011, produced by some of an estimated 64 active volcanoes on earth. At any...
The icon of an age
In his recent biography of the Wailers, Colin Grant tells of his disenchantment as he considers a statue in Kingston that is meant to be...
When steelband took London by storm
On July 26, 1951, some black men unloaded a pile of rusty steel drums in Southbank, London. It looked like junk. Garbage cans. The...
Rafael Trujillo: boss of a banana republic
It might seem hard to believe these days, but 50 years ago the Caribbean was one of the United States’ biggest foreign-policy headaches....
House of history: St Nicholas Abbey
Step back in time to the seventeenth century and discover the history and intrigue of St Nicholas Abbey, one of the oldest working sugar...
