Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2015)
We Kind ah People: The Trinidad Carnival Masquerade Bands of Stephen Lee Heung, by George Tang and Ray Funk (120 pp, ISBN 9781320341851)...
Dash of colour: Jamaican Andre Rowe
After excelling in his clothing and textiles classes, Jamaican Andre Rowe knew instantly that he wanted to become a fashion designer. Rowe...
Trinidad & Tobago’s houses of history
When attorney Russell Nath decided fifteen years ago to restore one of the last remaining great houses in Trinidad and Tobago, Ortinola...
Sapto Sopawiro: man of shadows
A wayang performance starts with a number of banana-tree stems (the Earth) and a large screen of white cloth (the Universe), behind which...
Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe: “From a place of love”
Movement is intergenerational in my family. I was raised between Grenada and the United States, living in each for a few years at a time,...
Say it loud
Ten years ago, when Caribbean Beat last highlighted the spoken-word scene in Trinidad and Tobago, a young, bearded university student was...
Meet the next generation of Caribbean music stars
If we’re to believe the cynics, pop music — for want of a better expression — is going through the cultural equivalent of the Dark...
Froudacity: a riposte to racism
The Caribbean has endured more than its fair share of foreign experts and commentators over the centuries. Some have come in search of the...
