Island Beat (Autumn 1995)
BARBADOS’S NEW GOLF RESORT AIMS FOR THE TOP Barbados’s new Royal Westmoreland Golf & Country Club is up and running. And...
Special Assignment: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica
Agent 007 – alias James Bond, the bane of international terrorists, megalomaniac scientists and nefarious drug barons – was...
Shadow: The Uncrowned King
The name Shadow is enough to light up the face of any true calypso fan. No other singer is more mysterious, mesmerising or controversial....
A Letter From Tobago
I am sitting on a balcony in Tobago, facing the ocean. Breakfast in the open-air dining room is over, and Mr Braithwaite, the wise ancient...
Winston Branch: The Precarious Life of Art
“You’re standing on my paaaaaaintings,” wailed Winston Branch indignantly. I looked down. What I had perceived to be a...
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 1995)
Music Bachata: A Social History Of Dominican Popular Music Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1995) When the...
Island Beat (Nov/Dec 1995)
Come On Down Write this dates in your diary right away: February 19 and 20, 1996. Carnival in Trinidad. Already the masquerade bands are...
Recipes: Going Dutch
Continuing our sojourn through the remarkably diverse islands of the Caribbean, it is time to move away from the mainstream to a group of...
