Anti-stoosh: Adam “DJ foreigner” Cooper | Snapshot By Amanda Choo Quan | September/October 2020 • Digital Issue From live events mixing and mashing diverse musical genres to his online Carnival Tabanca series, Trinidadian DJ Adam Cooper — also known as foreigner, based in Los Angeles — is completely reinventing what Caribbean culture can be, writes Amanda Choo Quan
The COVID strategy | The Deal By Natalie Dookie | September/October 2020 • Digital Issue The COVID-19 pandemic has already taken a heavy toll on Caribbean economies, and small businesses have been hardest hit. What can they do to survive the crisis? Natalie Dookie talks to experts in Jamaica, T&T, and Suriname for advice on how to grapple with both risks and opportunities
Maskerade | Make style By Shelly-Ann Inniss | July/August 2020 • Digital Issue It’s one of the most visible aspects of the COVID-19 era: the new ubiquity of masks, worn to slow the spread of the virus. It began months ago with practical but unflattering surgical masks, but around the world, and here in the Caribbean, designers like Trinidadian James Hackett soon got to work on more spirited versions. Shelly-Ann Inniss learns more
Ingrid Persaud: “I didn’t write the book I thought I was going to write” | Q&A By Caribbean Beat | July/August 2020 • Digital Issue Trinidad-born Ingrid Persaud, author of the novel Love After Love, talks to Caribbean Beat about her “scenic route” to a writing career and her relations with the unreliable muse
Everton Weekes (1925–2020) | Icon By Owen Arthur | July/August 2020 • Digital Issue Owen Arthur on the Barbadian cricket legend, third of “the Three Ws”
Gatekeeper | Showcase By Caribbean Beat | July/August 2020 • Digital Issue A poem by Donna Aza Weir-Soley, from the new bilingual anthology The Sea Needs No Ornament
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
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
