Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominica
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 143 (January/February 2017)
Roseau, Dominica | Neighbourhood
History The earliest known community on this site, at the mouth of the Roseau River, was a Kalinago (or Carib) village called Sairi. Long...
Arrive, Environment, Leisure, History, Martinique, Dominica, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
Caribbean volcanoes: fire down below
La Soufrière caldera St Vincent The highest peak in St Vincent — rising to 4,049 feet above the sea, near the island’s northern tip...
Immerse, People, United Kingdom, Dominica
By Joshua Surtees ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
Patricia Scotland: “I wanted to do”
Born in Dominica in 1955, to a Dominican mother and an Antiguan father, Patricia Scotland was the last of her parents’ twelve children to...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Dominica
By Paul Crask ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Dominica: morning has broken
My home is in a small village called Giraudel, on the western slopes of the Morne Anglais volcano in the southern half of Dominica. It’s...
Embark, Festivals and Events, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Paul Crask and Sue Ann Barratt ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Word of mouth (May/June 2015)
The flower ladies Paul Crask explores his neighbours’ colourful gardens as they prepare for Dominica’s annual Flower Show Stephanie...
Food and Cuisine, Dominica, Jamaica
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Norman’s know-how
If I’ve learned anything about chefs in my years of interviewing them, it’s this: the best ones are the most creative and approachable....
Arrive, Shopping, Curacao, French Guiana, Martinique, Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 131 (January/February 2015)
Market day
San Antonio Green Market Santa Cruz, Trinidad In the lush valley north-east of Port of Spain, organic farmers and artisanal food producers...
Embark, Festivals and Events, Food and Cuisine, Sports, Aruba, Bonaire, Puerto Rico, United States, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mirissa De Four ● Issue 129 (September/October 2014)
Caribbean Datebook (September/October 2014)
New York Breakaway on the parkway You live in North America, but didn’t make it back to the Caribbean for any of this year’s Carnivals?...