Ready for Arts-in-Action
There’s a small arts revolution taking place in Trinidad and Tobago, with roots in the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts (CCFA) at...
Holy macaroni | Last word | Classic
Taylor gets homesick for her Tantie’s macaroni pie. So she tries to cook it herself. Trouble now start. Originally published in 2006, this Beat classic was reproduced in the May/June 2023 issue
It’s a brown world | Last word | Classic
At home in Trinidad, Caroline Taylor’s multi-ethnic identity is no mystery; the rest of the world is a totally different melting-pot. Originally published in 2004, this evergreen archive piece was also reproduced in the September/October 2018 issue
Clockwise Grenada: touring sunrise to sunset
Like many Eastern Caribbean islands, Grenada is small enough to explore on a day-trip, taking in many of the island’s most engaging...
Word of mouth (July/August 2013)
Golden voices — Trinidad’s Marionettes Chorale Caroline Taylor on the half-century anniversary of Trinidad’s popular Marionettes...
Taking flight: Bird of Night
There is a sketch next to Trinidadian Dominique Le Gendre’s Bird of Night programme note which captures graphically her own complex...
A tweet in need
Much like its predecessors in print and broadcast media, the Internet has been derided for a host of apocalyptic shortcomings. But in...
Jeremy Taylor on 20 years of Caribbean Beat
I never thought of making a career out of it. I hadn’t even heard of freelance journalism back in the 70s. Even now, somehow I can’t...
