Willemstad, Curaçao | Wish you were here

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Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places

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Michele Henderson: “I woke up with an entire song in my head”

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Singer-songwriter Michele Henderson, performing at October’s World Creole Music Festival, on her musical childhood and her transition to the international stage — as told to Paul Crask, at her home in Grand Bay, Dominica

Singer-songwriter Michele Henderson. Photo by Paul Crask

Guyana by the score | Destination

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Guyana, on an island scale, is vast: 83,000 square miles of Atlantic coast, mighty rivers, savannahs and forests stretching to the horizon. It can be overwhelming for a first-time visitor — so we’ll help you narrow it down. Here are twenty key places, events, and things that capture the true spirit of “the land of many waters”

The Rupununi River is a wild playground at the heart of Guyana. Photo by Pete Oxford

Jaws of life | Green

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Pop culture has given sharks an undeservedly scary reputation. What’s truly frightening, reports Erline Andrews, is a sea without sharks, vital for a healthy marine ecosystem. And after decades of neglect, the countries of the Caribbean are finally waking up to the importance of shark conservation — for the environment, but also for their economies

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Singer-songwriter Michele Henderson. Photo by Paul Crask
The Rupununi River is a wild playground at the heart of Guyana. Photo by Pete Oxford
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South Coast, Barbados | Neighbourhood

The sheltered south coast of Barbados is a visitors’ playground — but alongside crowded beaches and lively nightlife, you’ll find lots of history and touches of nature, too

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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

immerse 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
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A plague from above | On this day

It’s not just a story from the Bible: thirty years ago, thanks to unprecedented weather conditions, a massive swarm of locusts crossed the Atlantic and ended up in the Caribbean. James Ferguson investigates how, and what became of them

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Some like it sweet | Cookup

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It used to be that sweet-toothed Caribbean people were satisfied with a good old-fashioned sponge cake. But, as Franka Philip explains, the profusion of delectable dessert images on Instagram in recent years has raised expectations, and more sophisticated tastes. Bakers and pastry chefs across the Caribbean are keeping up, with unexpected flavours and elaborate techniques

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