Engage, Culture, History, People, Haiti, Jamaica
By James Ferguson ● Issue 138 (March/April 2016)
Voyager among gods
Eighty years ago, on 14 April, 1936, a forty-five-year-old African-American woman arrived by boat from New York City in Kingston, Jamaica....
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, St. Martin
By Montague Kobbe ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
St Martin: an island like a new world
Sitting at the Tropicana, my favourite bistro in Marigot’s Marina Royale, awaiting my moules flown in that day from France, sipping my...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Haiti
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
Jacmel, Haiti
Streetscape On the eastern side of sheltered Jacmel Bay, the town stretches back from a shingly beach to a steep escarpment above Rue...
Arrive, Leisure, Travel, Cuba, Guadeloupe, The Bahamas
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Secret islands: the “undiscovered” Caribbean
There are more than seven thousand different islands in the Caribbean, according to the reference books, most of them tiny by any standard....
Engage, Environment, Business, Haiti
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Castor oil, please
Castor oil. Two words that used to strike terror in the hearts — and stomachs — of Caribbean children. In the old days, at the end of...
Embark, Festivals and Events, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Word of mouth (November/December 2015)
Traveller’s tree What’s a miniature butterfly-winged skeleton doing on a Christmas tree? Philip Sander explains the origins of a...
Arrive, Travel, Lifestyle, French Guiana
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
Cayenne, French Guiana
Streetscape Located at the mouth of the Cayenne River, the city’s modern suburbs now sprawl onto the mainland, but its historic centre is...
Embark, Festivals and Events, Haiti, United Kingdom
By Philip Sander and David Katz ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Word of mouth (July/August 2015)
On Haitian earth Philip Sander explains the historic significance of Carifesta’s visit to Haiti There’s a sad disproportion between...