By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 19 (May/June 1996)
Bookshelf (May/June 1996)
The Autobiography Of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996) Jamaica Kincaid was born in Antigua and is based in Vermont;...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 60 (March/April 2003)
Festival Beat: the Drums of Carriacou
On an April night, on the speck of land in the southern Caribbean that is the Grenadine island of Carriacou, the grounds of Belair Park...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
Beat People
Ready to defend his crown Barbados Crop Over 2002 belonged to Bajan soca star Lil’ Rick, who drove the masses wild on stage and on the...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
The First Carifesta
The first Caribbean Festival of Culture and Arts, Carifesta I, was celebrated in Guyana in 1972. For the English-speaking Caribbean, this...