Arts and Architecture, Culture, Guyana
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 5 (Spring 1993)
Graceful Georgetown Guyana
Guyana is slowly but surely opening up for tourism. Small in South American terms, it is big in Caribbean terms-Britain would fit into it...
Food and Cuisine, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Kong ● Issue 52 (November/December 2001)
Caribbean Christmas recipes
As chill winds blow up here in the north, hastening the birth of Christ, everyone around me is happily browsing or buying gifts, looking forward to a white Christmas. I, on the other hand, am yearning for the land of my birth, and a true Caribbean Christmas.
Community, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana
By Anna Nicholas ● Issue 45 (September/October 2000)
Guyana’s Wai Wai: Friends in the Forest
As we finally broke through the thick cloud, I peered down from the small, shuddering Islander plane at the endless green forest. For two...
By Oonya Kempadoo ● Issue 38 July/August 1999)
Buxton Spice
TREE In the crook of the house was the big fat Buxton Spice Mango Tree. So close-up to the house it could see everything: through the...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana
By Janette Bulkan and John Palmer ● Issue 148 (November/December 2017)
Mahaica dawn | Offtrack
Southeast of Georgetown, the lower Mahaica River runs through rice paddies and vegetable fields, but the intact native vegetation along its banks is a refuge for numerous birds and other wildlife. Janette Bulkan and John Palmer head out on an early-morning boat trip, encountering dozens of Guyana’s colourful bird species
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 147 (September/October 2017)
Lethem, Guyana | Neighbourhood
Streetscape Sprawling across a small triangle between the Takutu River, the airstrip, and the Rupununi Road, Lethem has no obvious centre...
Immerse, People, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 145 (May/June 2017)
25 Caribbean achievers under 25
25 for 25 Since the first issue of Caribbean Beat was published in 1992, we’ve profiled hundreds of our region’s best and brightest —...
Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Guyana
By Neil Marks ● Issue 144 (March/April 2017)
Pakaraima bound
You don’t have to be a topographer to figure out that Guyana is unapologetically part of Amazonia. But, just in case you want to be...