Make way | On Caribbean innovation By Nicholas Laughlin | Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020) A note to our readers from editor Nicholas Laughlin, as we present our second specially curated online-only edition of Caribbean Beat
Tobago sends messages of hope to German travel trade By Tobago Tourism Authority Ltd | News & Online Exclusives The Tobago Tourism Agency Limited (TTAL) partnered with Germany’s leading travel trade publishing house, FVW, to launch a digital and print campaign that facilitates a platform for sharing positive, encouraging messages from travel partners across the globe, while keeping Tobago relevant as a premier holiday option for future travel
“To remind you of life” | On Caribbean resilience By Nicholas Laughlin | Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020) A note to our readers from editor Nicholas Laughlin, as we present our first specially curated online-only edition of Caribbean Beat
Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) | Icon By Kelly Baker Josephs | Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020) On his ninetieth birthday, 11 May, 2020, Kelly Baker Josephs explains the groundbreaking influence of the late Barbadian poet and scholar, perennially ahead of his time. An online exclusive
Angostura Holdings Ltd donates 70,000 bottles of hand sanitiser to first responders, communities, and businesses By Angostura Holdings | News & Online Exclusives Angostura has transformed its distilling capability to deliver all pharmaceutical demands while also producing 50,000 bottles of 375 ml and 20,000 bottles of 1.75 litres hand sanitiser to donate
Roger Robinson: A Portable Paradise | The Read By Caribbean Beat | Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020) Delving with equal insight into pleasure and sorrow, Robinson argues that “earthly joy is, or ought to be, just within, but is often just beyond our reach.”
Klein Curaçao | Wish you were here (Mar/Apr 2020) By Caribbean Beat | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places
Need to know | Events calendar (Mar/Apr 2020) By Shelly-Ann Inniss and David Katz | Issue 162 (March/April 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
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Everything Inside; Sun of Consciousness; Nomad; A–Z of Caribbean Art; and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Playlist (Mar/Apr 2020) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Yasser Tejeda & Palotré; Kalpee; Pressure Busspipe; and Grégory Privat
Kelly Sinnapah Mary: Riddles of survival | Portfolio By Shereen Ali | Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 159 (September/October 2019) Working across mediums, Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary creates images with a fairytale quality, mingling cruelty and enchantment, as she explores postcolonial dilemmas and the resistance of self-invention, writes Shereen Ann Ali
Q&A with Carlos Lechuga | Screenshots By Jonathan Ali | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) Cuban filmmaker Carlos Lechuga talks about his hard-hitting, sepia-hued short Generation
Nina Compton: “I’m going to do something different” | Cookup By Franka Philip | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) Chef Nina Compton discovered her passion for cooking as a teenager in St Lucia. After winning fame on the TV show Top Chef, she’s now turning heads with two restaurants in her adopted city, New Orleans
All that jazz | Closeup By Nigel Campbell | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) Musically, Trinidad and Tobago are best known for calypso and soca, but a thriving jazz scene proves there’s an avid audience for other genres. Nigel A. Campbell profiles Charmaine Forde, Vaughnette Bigford, and LeAndra — three jazz vocalists of different generations whose separate stories make a bigger narrative about paths to musical success
The rightest place | Portfolio By Andre Bagoo | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) “Art has to transform,” says Blue Curry. The London-based Bahamian artist puts unlikely objects into new contexts, writes Andre Bagoo — and sometimes out of place is where things belong
As far as it goes | Snapshot By Sheldon Waithe | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) When Grenadian Anderson Peters won javelin gold at the 2019 World Championships, it took observers by surprise. This was no overnight success, says Sheldon Waithe — but the product of steady hard work and staunch confidence. Now the young athlete is preparing for his biggest challenge yet at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Guyana: so near, so far | Destination By Nixon Nelson | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) There are parts of the Guyanese interior — in the heart of the vast Rupununi Savannah, or deep in the Iwokrama rainforest — that feel thrillingly remote. But daily air links make these wild adventures surprisingly accessible, says Nixon Nelson. And don’t forget the charms of Guyana’s capital, Georgetown
Phagwah: Rite of Spring | Album By Caribbean Beat | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) Celebrated in Trinidad since the nineteenth century, Holi — also known as Phagwah — is the Hindu spring festival, and a time to enjoy the company of friends and neighbours. At the 2019 celebrations in Aranguez, photographer Ziad Joseph captured the joyful free-for-all of colour
Bathsheba, Barbados | Bucket list By Caribbean Beat | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) World-class surfing and dramatic scenery are in ample supply on the island’s rugged Atlantic coast
Nature’s Bread | Green By Erline Andrews | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) It’s delicious, nutritious, and popular across the Caribbean. Even so, breadfruit — brought to the region from the Pacific more than two centuries ago — is still underappreciated for its potential role in increasing regional food security, and helping to green our cities. Erline Andrews learns more
Be fruitful and multiply | On this day By James Ferguson | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) March brings the 180th birthday of the man who singlehandedly created the Caribbean banana industry. James Ferguson looks back at the life and times of Lorenzo Dow Baker, Yankee entrepreneur
Easter in the islands | Did you even know By Caribbean Beat | Issue 162 (March/April 2020) Our trivia column tests your knowledge of Caribbean Easter traditions. See how many of our questions you can answer correctly
