Clean lines: Trinidadian jewellery designer Janice Derrick By Alia Michele Orane | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Trinidadian designer Janice Derrick creates elegant jewellery with clean lines
Take twenty: cricket, that is By Garry Steckles | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Garry Steckles previews the 2014 Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament, which starts sports lovers’ pulses racing in July
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 2014) By Philip Sander and Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) This month’s fiction and poetry reading picks
Caribbean Playlist (July/August 2014) By Nigel Campbell | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) New releases to get you in the groove
Beer essentials: what’s brewing at Grenada’s West Indies Beer Company By David Katz | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) As the international craft beer trend spreads to the Caribbean, the popular ales made by Grenada’s fledgling West Indies Beer Company are brewing up a quiet storm. David Katz finds out more
Caribbean Datebook (July/August 2014) By Mirissa De Four | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Events around the Caribbean in July and August
Word of mouth (July/August 2014) By Various Contributors | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Dispatches from our correspondents around the Caribbean and further afield
Icah Wilmot: star of the surf By Michael Robinson | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) For Icah Wilmot, Jamaica’s only pro surfer, his championship career is both a family enterprise and a vehicle for moving his sport ahead. Michael Robinson visits Jamaica’s first family of surfing at their Jamnesia headquarters in Bull Bay
Diamonds are forever By Geoffrey Dunn | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Sixty years ago, as a young calypsonian named Andrew Marcano made his tent debut, no one could know he would become calypso’s living conscience. Geoffrey Dunn recounts the life and times of the inimitable Lord Superior
What he brought for me By Loretta Collins Klobah | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) A poem by Puerto Rican writer Loretta Collins Klobah, inspired by Notting Hill Carnival
La Vaughn Belle: big art from a small place By David Knight Jr | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) For artist La Vaughn Belle, coming from a “small place” — St Croix — doesn’t restrict her imagination or her ambitions. David Knight, Jr, investigates the social impact of Belle’s questioning artistic practice
Buccoo tales — explore Tobago By Elspeth Duncan | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Not all travels require you to stray far from home, Elspeth Duncan discovers. Sometimes, with open eyes and the right company, the pleasures of wandering are right under your nose. Plus a concise guide to some of Tobago’s best adventures
The other side of Haiti By Shannon J. Effinger | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) In the aftermath of Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake, reconstruction is still a work in progress. Even so, writes Shannon J. Effinger, the country’s rich culture makes Haiti a life-changing destination for the right kind of traveller
Finding the centre in Mexico City By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Nicholas Laughlin arrives in Mexico City, and realises his whole notion of geography is wrong. The Aztecs thought this was the centre of the universe — maybe they were right
Earthy delights By Caribbean Beat | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) The Caribbean’s public gardens are places to enjoy the pleasures of nature — and centres for research and conservation as well
Ready, set, read By Erline Andrews | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) In the quest to encourage reading habits in the Caribbean, books aimed at young adults have been in short supply. As Erline Andrews finds out, the new Burt Award for Caribbean Literature aims to change that
Save our sharks By Nazma Muller | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Bake and shark is an essential Trinidadian delicacy, but the appetites of seafood lovers take a heavy toll on marine ecosystems. Nazma Muller investigates. Plus a handy guide to sustainable Caribbean seafood
On the home front: World War I and the Caribbean By James Ferguson | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) A century after the outbreak of World War One, James Ferguson looks back at the global conflict’s impact on the Caribbean’s political and social landscape
Close encounter: whale-watching in Dominica By Caribbean Beat | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Only a handful of divers are lucky enough to see eye to eye with Dominica’s amazing whales
