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
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
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe | Wish you were here (January/February 2020) By Caribbean Beat | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places
Need to know | Events calendar (Jan/Feb 2020) By Caribbean Beat and Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Essential info to help you make the most of January and February across the Caribbean — Carnival Kings and Queens in T&T, Barbados’s Hometown Festival, Jamaica Jamaica! exhibition, and more
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of In Nearby Bushes; Honeyfish; A Dark Iris; Another Mother; and Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Playlist (Jan/Feb 2020) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by David Kirton; Bunji Garlin; and other various artists
Q&A with Michael Lees | Screenshots By Jonathan Ali | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Filmmaker Michael Lees talks about his documentary Uncivilized, recording the six months he spent living in the rainforest of Dominica
Carnival backstage | Closeup By Georgia Popplewell and Laura Dowrich-Phillips | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Carnival is a time to shine: from performers on the soca and calypso stage to costumed masqueraders in the street and fete-goers showing off their most acrobatic dance moves. But “the greatest show on earth” wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of the many thousands who work behind the scenes — year-round or seasonally — on the organisation and logistics of the festival. Laura Dowrich-Phillips and Georgia Popplewell meet four of the people whose backstage efforts make Carnival happen
Kambule: on morning ground | Snapshot By Attillah Springer | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Early each Carnival Friday morning, before dawn breaks, crowds assemble at Piccadilly Greens in east Port of Spain for a re-enactment of a key event in the history of Trinidad — and of Carnival itself. Attillah Springer gives an intimate account of Kambule, when the spirits of the ancestors are invoked in a ritual of memory, story, song, and resistance
