Burning and a looting
Ever illegally downloaded a song from the Internet or burned a CD for a friend? Garry Steckles explains how music piracy hurts Caribbean musicians
Issue 70 (November/December 2004)
Georgia Popplewell takes a look at Ras Shorty I, the Love Circle, and the talented Blackman clan; Jeremy Taylor profiles Dominican writer, Jean Rhys; Dylan Kerrigan guides us through the beauties of Tobago; Bruce Paddington takes a look back on the iconic Trinidadian film “Bim” in its 30th anniversary; James Ferguson on Frank Collymore’s short story collection; Garry Steckles on the plague of music piracy in the region; Richard Costas on the new wave of telecom liberalization in the Caribbean; the latest island Buzz; Caribbean cookup, and more!
Colly’s follies
James Ferguson on Frank Collymore’s wry, sly short story collection The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals
Total mobility
Richard Costas on the consequences of telecom sector liberalisation and the explosion of mobile phone sales in the Caribbean
Sweltering Santa | Classic | Last word
Jolly St Nick’s red wool suit wasn’t designed for tropical heat . . .
Originally published in 2004, this Beat classic was reproduced in the November/December 2018 issue
Bim, Bim, Sink or Swim…
It’s agreed to be a landmark in Caribbean cinema, maybe the best film ever made in Trinidad and Tobago. It's now 30 years since the release of BIM...
A Christmas log
Faced with the crisis of Christmas shopping, Anu Lakhan realises the solution lies once again in her kitchen • Plus a guide to the sweets that appear
Jean Rhys: voyager in the dark
Gwen Williams never felt like she fit in — not in Dominica, where she was born and grew up, not in Britain, where she worked as an actress, not in Europe...
The Blackmans: all in the family
When calypsonian and soca pioneer Lord Shorty (Garfield Blackman) reformed his flashy lifestyle and retreated to rural Piparo in the late 1970s, Trinidadian music would change forever...
Time for Tobago
Absolute peace and quiet — isn’t that why visitors go to Trinidad’s sister island? Actually, Tobago is buzzing with action, says Dylan Kerrigan.
What the Caribbean is talking about this month (November/December 2004)
Watch out, Spike: Jamaican director Ras Kassa is an up-and-comer in the music video business, but his sights are set even higher • Buzzworthy: Rheann
Andrea Levy: “This was not a small story”
British writer Andrea Levy on exploring her Jamaican roots in her novel Small Island — as told to Marina Salandy-Brown
