Artists of a new world
“The works are not afraid to admit, and admit to, the mental and physical space we have always inhabited. The artist is moving between...
Snapshots of St Vincent
The breeze hit me as soon as I stepped out of the airport in St Vincent. It was the sort of breeze that said “mountains”. I...
Jungle fever: discover Iwokrama
A gift to the world In Guyana, the natural world overwhelms. It is unimaginably vast, the rainforest in many places unbroken as far as the...
Fondes Amandes, Trinidad: It takes a village
The month of March is when Trinidad’s dry season, at first so welcome, becomes fierce, turns the vegetation yellow, and parches the...
Destination Focus: Grenada
ON THE ROAD If a rastafarian is identified by dreadlocks, what happens when he loses his hair? I wondered about this as a tall, balding man...
On the Beat: Skye Hernandez on Beat’s 20th anniversary
Like many others, I consider Caribbean Beat the best in-flight magazine I’ve ever come across. It is an encyclopaedia of Caribbean life...
Battleground Tobago: Raising ghosts from a watery grave
Tiny, peaceful Tobago was once the scene of one of the bloodiest sea battles ever fought – one that saw 20 ships destroyed and sunk to...
Feast from the East
When I was growing up in Port of Spain during the Seventies, we knew nothing about Arabic food. It was not part of the national culinary...
