By David Katz and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 162 (March/April 2020)
Need to know | Events calendar (Mar/Apr 2020)
Essential info to help you make the most of March and April across the Caribbean — from a film festival in
St Vincent to Carnival in Jamaica
By David Katz and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 155 (January/February 2019)
Need to know | Events calendar (Jan/Feb 2019)
Essential info to help you make the most of January and February across the Caribbean — from jazz in Haiti to reggae month in Jamaica to a film festival in Barbados
Arrive, Culture, Music, Travel, Lifestyle
By David Katz ● Issue 150 (March/April 2018)
São Luís do Maranhão — Brazil’s reggae city | Travellers’ tales
Founded in 1612 on Brazil’s Atlantic coast, the city of São Luís do Maranhão is a treasurehouse of historic achitecture, encrusted with ornate blue tiles, and has a long tradition of avant-garde poets. It’s also — as unlikely as it sounds — a hotbed of reggae music. David Katz pays a visit, to investigate how this city more than two thousand miles from Kingston has adopted reggae as its very own, with a new museum celebrating the cultural link
By David Katz ● Issue 143 (January/February 2017)
Word of mouth (January/February 2017)
House of Tosh Three decades after the violent death of Peter Tosh, a new Kingston museum remembers the legacy of the reggae superstar....
Immerse, Literature, People, Jamaica
By David Katz ● Issue 141 (September/October 2016)
Jean “Binta” Breeze: memories from the verandah
Jean “Binta” Breeze stifles a laugh as she ponders the genesis of her latest book, The Verandah Poems. “I got very ill in England,”...
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...
Immerse, Culture, Music, Arts, Jamaica
By David Katz ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Dubbing is a must
If you don’t have your own car, getting to the weekly Kingston Dub Club requires a significant commitment, since there is no public...
By Nicholas Laughlin, Robert Clarke and David Katz ● Issue 53 (January/February 2002)
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Peacocks Dancing Sharon Maas (HarperCollins 2001, 485pp, ISBN 0-00-711737-X) Rita Maraj, our heroine, lives in a...