Arrive, Leisure, Travel, Lifestyle, Sports, Antigua and Barbuda
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 141 (September/October 2016)
Antigua for adventure
Let the wind take you It’s probably the most daring of watersports, a cross between windsurfing, wakeboarding, and aerial acrobatics....
Engage, Leisure, Saba, Sint Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 141 (September/October 2016)
On a clear day in St Kitts . . .
. . . maybe you can’t see forever, but you can certainly see both Saba (on the horizon at left) and St Eustatius from the vantage point...
Arrive, Environment, Leisure, History, Martinique, Dominica, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
Caribbean volcanoes: fire down below
La Soufrière caldera St Vincent The highest peak in St Vincent — rising to 4,049 feet above the sea, near the island’s northern tip...
By Denise Chin ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
On, on! Hashing in the Caribbean
There’s a group of mainly goofball types, plus a few odd normal people, who spend every other Saturday afternoon chasing chalk marks or...
Arrive, Leisure, Travel, Cuba, Guadeloupe, The Bahamas
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Secret islands: the “undiscovered” Caribbean
There are more than seven thousand different islands in the Caribbean, according to the reference books, most of them tiny by any standard....
Arrive, Environment, Leisure, Travel, Trinidad and Tobago
By Helen Shair-Singh ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Tobago: green as an island
Driving through Tobago’s rainforest is like meditation. Free from human noise, the silence is filled instead with the heartbeat of life...
Culture, Leisure, Travel, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Holetown, Barbados
Streetscape Barbados’s oldest town wears its history lightly, with a handful of historic structures sprinkled among modern shops and...
Engage, Leisure, Travel, The Bahamas
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Sea to sea: the Bahamas’ Glass Window Bridge
Near the northern tip of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, Glass Window Bridge is a narrow isthmus separating the deep blue Atlantic Ocean from the...