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The young revellers of Kiddies’ Carnival portray some of the festival’s most elaborate visual fantasies with innocent enthusiasm. Photo by Jason Audain

T&T Carnival may be the world’s greatest street party, but among the glamourous bikini bands and shimmering sequins, some traditional masquerades offer a defiant take on the darker side of our history

Dean’s Blue Hole, the Bahamas The limestone landscape of Long Island is dotted with caves and sinkholes, eroded over many centuries — the latter forming distinctive “blue holes,” flooded with fresh or sea water, almost perfectly circular, and eerily deep. Most impressive of all is Dean’s Blue Hole, in a bay west of Clarence Town, with a depth measured at 663 feet — the perfect location for the celebrated Vertical Blue freediving competition, running annually since 2008. Photo by Shane Pinder / Alamy Stock Photo

Arrive, Travel, Cuba, Curacao, Suriname, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago

By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 155 (January/February 2019)

All about blue | Round trip

Is any colour more distinctive of the Caribbean? Take a tour of the region through our many hues and shades of blue

Photo by Danita Delimont / Alamy Stock Photo

Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, British Virgin Islands

By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 155 (January/February 2019)

Road Town, Tortola | Neighbourhood

A year and a half after the devastation of Hurricane Irma, the capital of the British Virgin Islands is back in the business of welcoming visitors

Little Tobago in the distance, behind Goat Island, off Tobago’s northeast coast. Photo by courtesy the Tobago House of Assembly

Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 155 (January/February 2019)

Little Tobago | Bucket list

A wildlife sanctuary off Tobago’s northeast coast, this tiny island has an unlikely history — and numerous seabirds

A leisurely drift down the picturesque White River is a standard in the itineraries of most visitors to Ocho Rios on Jamaica’s north coast — and you’ll understand exactly why, after you’ve floated through bamboo groves and perhaps taken a bracing dip, encouraged by your chatty guide. Photo by LBSIMMS Photography/Shutterstock.com

Embark, Jamaica

By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 154 (November/December 2018)

White River, Jamaica | Wish you were here (Nov/Dec 2018)

Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places

Rodney Bay, St Lucia’s tourism epicentre, has a spectacular beach and upscale restaurants and resorts, but it holds on to a relaxed vibe, with fishermen’s boats lined up near the old jetty (#sun #sand #sea #timeforaswim). Photo by Danielle Devaux

Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, St. Lucia

By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 154 (November/December 2018)

Picture-perfect St Lucia | Escape

Is there any place in the Caribbean more ready for Instagram? As our photo album shows, St Lucia has photogenicity to spare

Embark, Travel, Curacao

By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 153 (September/October 2018)

Willemstad, Curaçao | Wish you were here

Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places

The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury with 1,027 passengers — more than eight hundred of them West Indian immigrants, considered UK citizens under the British Nationality Act. Contraband Collection/Alamy Stock Photo

Immerse, History, United Kingdom, Caribbean Diaspora

By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 153 (September/October 2018)

Remembering Windrush

When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948, its West Indian passengers didn’t know their arrival would become a historical watershed. A new exhibition at the British Library explains how the Windrush generation changed Britain for good