Follow their footprints By Dylan Kerrigan | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Follow their footprints: T.O.K.'s album Unknown Language finds a new way to talk about contemporary Jamaica
Heart of Steel By Kris Rampersad | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Derek Walcott's Steel makes its Port of Spain debut
The Big Picture By Alex Smailes | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Ramleela, the annual re-enactment of the Hindu epic the Ramayana, photographed by Alex Smailes
Cover stories: celebrating 75 issues of Caribbean Beat By Caribbean Beat | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) To celebrate the magazine’s 75th issue, seven members of Caribbean Beat’s editorial team choose their favourite covers
Losing it By Jeremy Taylor | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Jeremy Taylor remembers the Caribbean Beat editor who went to Venezuela and lost his pants
Rex Nettleford: “Running a university is like running a dance company” By Annie Paul | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Rex Nettleford, founder of the Jamaica National Dance Theatre Company and former vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies
Lyrics man: David Rudder By Garry Steckles | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Garry Steckles on the reign of “King” David Rudder
À la recherche: Monsieur Toussaint by Edouard Glissant By James Ferguson | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) In his play Monsieur Toussaint, Edouard Glissant poignantly captures the complex character and historical dilemma of Haiti’s revolutionary hero
Father Carl Abrahams By Annie Paul | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Annie Paul remembers Jamaican artist Carl Abrahams and his gentle visions of redemption
Brooklyn crush By Kellie Magnus | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) With perhaps half a million residents born or with roots in the islands, the New York borough of Brooklyn may be the world’s biggest Caribbean city
Brooklyn Carnival: Breakaway on the Parkway By Kellie Magnus | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Photographer Sol McCants captures the energy and spirit of Brooklyn’s Labour Day Carnival
Currency notes By Richard Costas | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Heard the one about the man who wrote a cheque on the side of a cow? Richard Costas takes a light-hearted look at a serious subject: money. Plus more
Hot hot pot By Various Contributors | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) The recipe couldn’t have looked simpler — so Anu Lakhan set out to make casareep, the key ingredient in Guyanese pepperpot • Plus more
David Dabydeen: Guyana Don By John Mair | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) The success of David Dabydeen’s 2004 novel Our Lady Of Demerara — winner of the Guyana Prize
What the Caribbean is talking about this month By Various Contributors | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Follow their footprints: T.O.K.’s album Unknown Language finds a new way to talk about contemporary Jamaica and more