Our top articles of 2023
Here are the top 10 Caribbean Beat articles — many from deep in our archives — for 2023
Homepage Slider, Festivals and Events
29 February, 2024
Essential info about what’s happening across the region in March and April
Homepage Slider, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
29 February, 2024
Tobago’s unique Easter goat and crab racing in Buccoo is one for your bucket list. Aisha Sylvester tells us why
29 February, 2024
Tree-planting, reforestation, and ensuring the integrity of our waterways are all critical to preserving mangroves — the remarkable forests with the power to protect us from the worst effects of climate change. Erline Andrews learns more
Homepage Slider, Travel, Festivals and Events, Food and Cuisine, People, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago
29 February, 2024
Five regional travel influencers (Cindy Allman, Samantha Gittens, Shea Powell, Stephen Bennett, and Francesca Murray) share their favourite things about Easter time across the Caribbean — as told to Shelly-Ann Inniss
By Caroline Taylor ● News & Online Exclusives
Here are the top 10 Caribbean Beat articles — many from deep in our archives — for 2023
By Caroline Taylor and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
On view: Garden of Humanity (Miami) and The Plural of He (New York)
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring reviews by Nigel Campbell of new music by Reginald Cyntje; DaWchY; Micwise; and Stephen Marley
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull; Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant; Elektrik: Caribbean Writing; and Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell
By Donna Yawching ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
Donna Yawching on the Festival de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba
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Hans Schweitzer’s five-by-seven-foot office in the main kitchen of the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados harbours everything from a computer and overstuffed bookshelves to a file cabinet and fridge. A ...
Read More →One night in 1957, the calm of a district in Barbados known as Mile And A Quarter was shattered by the launch of a home-made rocket blasting 300 feet into ...
Read More →Barbados: Thirty Years of Independence ed. Trevor A. Carmichael (Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica, 1996; ISBN 976-8123-18-4) Barbados gained its independence from Britain in 1966. Thirty years later, a leading Barbadian ...
Read More →My tiny garden in England gave me few problems. If it looked parched in the summer, that was because of the hosepipe bans, and it always recovered. Occasionally, it was ...
Read More →Unbounded Marcia Miranda (JMC, distributed by Crosby’s) This nine-track CD runs the gamut of contemporary Trinidadian music: chutney soca, slow groove calypso, dancehall, uptempo soca, it’s all here. The album ...
Read More →“Yes, there are meant to be two-line breaks between the paragraphs here.” “OK, Ismael, we’ll discuss that next time.” “Well, if there is a strike, you’re not going to be ...
Read More →Ann-Marie Whittaker slips an apron over her red sleeveless dress and scrutinises a brightly-decorated table the way a painter does a daub of paint on canvas. “You know what’s the ...
Read More →It’s the height of the rainy season, in July, and several Makushi women are talking about the uniforms their children need for the new school year. This is Annai Village, ...
Read More →The Best of Johnny King (King Charles Productions) It took a while, but finally calypsonian Johnny King found the time to release his greatest hits. They are worth the wait. ...
Read More →It takes only five hours to fly from Trinidad to Jamaica; but for a Trini leaving home to spend a year in Jamdown, it would take months to stop missing ...
Read More →Ace cyclist Gene Samuel of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey are the Caribbean’s best medal prospects for the 1992 Olympics, to be staged in Barcelona, Spain, from ...
Read More →EX-ILES: Essays on Caribbean Cinema ed. Mbye Cham (Africa World Press 1992) This is a pioneering book, pulling together the threads of an industry that has remained largely uncharted. Quite ...
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