Embark, Community, Culture, Environment, Festivals and Events, Lifestyle, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
By Shelly-Ann Inniss and Amanda Choo Quan ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
Need to know | Event calendar (Mar/Apr 2021)
Essential info to help you make the most of March and April — even in the middle of a pandemic
Embark, Music, Reviews, United States, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
Playlist (Mar/Apr 2021) | Music reviews
This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring new music by Kalpee; Payge Turner Music; Natiruts, Ziggy Marley & Yalitza Aparicio; and Will the Wolf & X.O. Drew
Arrive, Leisure, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nixon Nelson ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
Paria Bay bound, Trinidad | Offtrack
Trinidad’s north coast, where mountains tumble down to the sea, is home to popular beaches like Maracas and Las Cuevas — but also to little-known bays accessible only by hiking, plus forest trails, waterfalls, and some of the island’s most dramatic scenery. Nixon Nelson heads out to Paria Bay, one of the gems of the north coast
Immerse, Literature, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Andre Bagoo ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
The Miseducation of Merle Hodge | Backstory
Trinidadian writer Merle Hodge began her career by publishing what would become a beloved Caribbean classic, Crick Crack, Monkey, in 1970. Five decades later, as she prepares to publish her third novel, Hodge tells Andre Bagoo what took so long — and what drives her interest in capturing the often confusing experience of Caribbean childhood on the page
Immerse, Culture, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● January/February 2021
The Carnival photo I can’t forget | Portfolio
February brings T&T’s annual Carnival, and 2021 — with the physical festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — is a year to reminisce about Carnivals past. We asked three photographers — Jason C. Audain, Maria Nunes, and Shaun Rambaran — to choose one favourite image from their respective Carnival archives, and tell us the story behind it. As it turns out, the photos they chose all had something in common
Arrive, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Attillah Springer, Georgia Popplewell and Amanda Choo Quan ● January/February 2021
Carnival is love | Backstory
T&T Carnival is tradition and originality, ritual and rebellion, the sacred and the profane — and a million love stories. Here are three of them, from Attillah Springer, Amanda Choo Quan, and Georgia Popplewell
Embark, Travel, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● November/December 2020 • Digital Issue
Great Icacos Lagoon, Trinidad | Wish you were here (Nov/Dec 2020)
Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places
Arrive, Leisure, Travel, Cuba, Curacao, St. Martin, Suriname, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago
By Caribbean Beat ● November/December 2020 • Digital Issue
The good life | Round trip
Even in hard times — and 2020 brought more than its fair share — the Caribbean is one of the sweetest places on earth, thanks to beautiful landscapes, vibrant culture, and warm, generous people