Need to know | Events calendar (Mar/Apr 2019) By Philip Sander, Kellie Magnus and Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 156 (March/April 2019) Essential info to help you make the most of March and April across the Caribbean — from music festivals to Holi poems to Jamaica’s Champs athletics extravaganza
Every Trinidad Roach March ever — and our top 10 By Caribbean Beat, Philip Sander and Attillah Springer | Issue 149 (January/February 2018) Of the eighty-plus songs that have won the official Road March title at Trinidad Carnival, some are little remembered, some have become “back-in-times” favourites, and a few are considered landmarks — whether for their musical qualities or for trends they ushered in. Here are all the recorded Trinidad Carnival Road March winners from 1930 up to 2019 — and our picks for an all-time Road March top ten
Word of mouth (Nov/Dec 2017) By Philip Sander, Laura Dowrich-Phillips and Nixon Nelson | Issue 148 (November/December 2017) Why Jean-Michael Basquiat is a posthumous art star, how the Sunset Festival in Trinidad is changing Caribbean dance music, and where to end 2017 with a truly big bang: Paramaribo
An Aegean Sea archipelago diary | Travellers’ Tales By Philip Sander | Issue 147 (September/October 2017) The islands of the Aegean Sea are the original archipelago, which has lent its name to scatterings of islands everywhere else in the world. Under the baking summer sun, Philip Sander explores the Cyclades, from picturesque hill villages to ancient ruins to glistening bays, and feels oddly at home
Word of mouth (September/October 2016) By Philip Sander, Nazma Muller and Nixon Nelson | Issue 141 (September/October 2016) Caribbean writers star at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a new musical work remembers the Guyanese poet Martin Carter, and Trinidadians anticipate the sweet treats of Divali
Between the Pitons in St Lucia By Philip Sander | Issue 141 (September/October 2016) The resorts and nightlife of St Lucia’s north may be the biggest draw for most tourists. But the island’s more rugged south, and the spectacular peaks of the twin Pitons, attract a different kind of visitor. Philip Sander explains
Suriname: one country, four continents By Philip Sander | Issue 140 (July/August 2016) Imagine a country with a palm-fringed Atlantic coast and an interior of Amazon rainforest, where the cultures of West Africa, India, Java, and Europe meet and mingle, where it seems you can experience four continents in as many days. Come to Suriname and see the whole world
Stories of what-if By Philip Sander | Issue 138 (March/April 2016) Call it sci-fi, speculative fiction, fantasy — it’s one of the world’s most popular genres of storytelling, and a growing wave of Caribbean writers are bringing our voices, culture, and history to tales of mythical pasts and thrilling futures, lost worlds and faraway planets. Philip Sander talks to sci-fi authors Nalo Hopkinson, Tobias Buckell, Karen Lord, and R.S.A. Garcia
Word of mouth (January/February 2016) By Philip Sander and Laura Dowrich-Phillips | Issue 137 (January/February 2016) T&T’s Carnival Kings and Queens cross the stage, while regional Carnival celebrations across the two islands have all the energy without Port of Spain’s crowds and chaos
A cave of one’s own By Philip Sander | Issue 135 (September/October 2015) Near Turkey’s geographical heart, Cappadocia is a region of dramatic cliffs, gorges, and rock pillars. For centuries locals have excavated cave dwellings and whole underground cities into the rock. Philip Sander goes in search of a cave with a view
Word of mouth (July/August 2015) By Philip Sander and David Katz | Issue 134 (July/August 2015) Haiti hosts the Caribbean’s biggest arts festival, and a London exhibition celebrates the legacy of John La Rose
Word of mouth (March/April 2015) By Philip Sander, Attillah Springer and Kellie Magnus | Issue 132 (March/April 2015) The politics behind Trinidad’s Good Friday bobolees, Guyana’s Rupununi Rodeo, and the wrongs and rights of Jamaica Carnival
Are you listening? A decade of Global Voices By Philip Sander | Issue 131 (January/February 2015) For a decade, the international citizen media project Global Voices has helped break through online barriers of country, culture, censorship, and language — and the Caribbean has played a key role almost from the start. Philip Sander finds out more
Word of mouth (November/December 2014) By Philip Sander, Nicholas Laughlin and BC Pires | Issue 130 (November/December 2014) 2014’s hottest Caribbean novel, Caribbean artists on show in Santa Fe, and a celebration of food and drink in Barbados
Vieques: playing Crusoe By Philip Sander | Issue 129 (September/October 2014) For decades, the tiny island of Vieques, off Puerto Rico’s east coast, was known to outsiders — if at all — as a controversial US Navy base. But since the withdrawl of the military eleven years ago, Vieques’s gorgeous beaches and tranquil pace have attracted visitors in search of the “unspoiled.” Philip Sander finds out why
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 2014) By Philip Sander and Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) This month’s fiction and poetry reading picks
Galvanize: talking it through By Philip Sander | Issue 83 (January/February 2007) Under the theme “Visibly Absent”, contemporary artists in Trinidad stage Galvanize, an arts programmme
Bob’s blender | Classic By Philip Sander | Issue 158 (July/August 2019), Issue 83 (January/February 2007) Philip Sander visits the Bob Marley museum at 56 Hope Road and sees the most precious relic of them all. Originally published in 2007, this Beat classic was reproduced in the July/August 2019 issue
40 things to do in Trinidad & Tobago By Philip Sander | Issue 82 (November/December 2006) Racing goats in Easter, starting off the day with hot doubles, visiting a temple in the sea, exploring mud volcanoes & much much more!
Double your pleasure: Sint Maarten or Saint-Martin By Philip Sander | Issue 80 (July/August 2006) Two islands in one? Sint Maarten or Saint-Martin, part Dutch, part French, is two nations, two cultures, two experiences
Diane McTurk: “Karanambo was twice accursed” By Philip Sander | Issue 77 (January/February 2006) Diane McTurk, doyenne of Guyana’s Rupununi Savannah, on the founding of her family’s ranch, the old balata industry, and the legends of Karanambo
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2005) By Philip Sander and Jeremy Taylor | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) The new books that are reflecting the region right now
