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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Dear Malcolm This is the best time of the year in the Caribbean, remember? Well, how could you forget, stuck up there in the sleet and the snow, mist swirling, ...
Read More →Travels with my Trombone Henry Shukman (HarperCollins 1992; hardback) Shukman, a young musician in love with South America and its rhythms, packed his trombone and set off to discover the ...
Read More →They have Carnival in Europe too. Spectacularly, in Germany.In Germany? Land of efficiency, diligent workers, technology and the mighty Deutsche Mark? Well, yes. As Goethe, Germany’s greatest poet, wrote: “Two ...
Read More →When you think of the West Indies, you think of sandy beaches, blue skies, stately coconut trees waving in the breeze, calypso, reggae, cricket, beautiful women of every shape and ...
Read More →The Great Race can lay claim to being the longest-running offshore powerboat event in the world, having not missed a beat since it blasted off in 1969. On Saturday July ...
Read More →A toucan nibbling gently at my big toe was a new experience. I didn’t fancy his chances of swallowing it, but he seemed determined to have a go. I had ...
Read More →Ian Thomson arrived for an interview on a wet November Sunday, with a knapsack on his back. His book on Haiti, Bonjour Blanc, had recently been published; the jacket told ...
Read More →A million tourists do it every year. Columbus did it in 1492, and Ken Corsbie did it in 1971. Yet many people who should do it, haven’t. Ken Corsbie, one ...
Read More →Satellite City and other stories Alecia McKenzie (Longman Caribbean Writers, 1992) This is a first collection of stories by one of the most interesting of the new generation of Caribbean ...
Read More →I first discovered the West London area of Ladbroke Grove during the “swinging sixties”. At that time it was a vibrant cosmopolitan community attracting those in search of its liberating ...
Read More →When the Dominican writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey died in 1986, her coffin was draped with the flag of the West Indies Federation. By then, her achievements – and ...
Read More →There’s an old Barbadian expression for walking the hot midday pavement, usually on a tedious mission: “slapping tar”. But come each August in this most easterly Caribbean island of Barbados, ...
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