Leading the Trend By Caribbean Beat | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Nokia Trends Jamaica creates major connections
Gimme tempo By Tracy Assing | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Find out why TEMPO is truly Caribbean
Unwelcome guests: Caribbean hurricanes By Richard Costas | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) After two devastating hurricane seasons in a row, Richard Costas looks at the impact of these meteorological disasters on the Caribbean’s economies
Sweet Calypso Dreams By Garry Steckles | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Garry Steckles on Calypso Dreams, the documentary by Geoffrey Dunn and Michael Horne that celebrates the golden age of Trinidad calypso
John Hearne: two worlds in the blood By James Ferguson | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) James Ferguson wonders if a new edition of John Hearne’s novel Voices Under the Window will revive the reputation of this pioneering Jamaican writer
Caribbean Cookup – November/December 2005 By Various Contributors | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Articles for various contributors on what's cooking in the region
Pamenos Ballantyne: “Everyone is a winner” By Kwame Laurence | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Vincentian long-distance runner Pamenos Ballantyne on discipline, success, and his plans for the future — as told to Kwame Laurence
Island Hopper – November/December 2005 By Caribbean Beat | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Dates of events happening around the Caribbean
Braving Barbados’ Soup Bowl By David Pye | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) The Caribbean’s best-known surfing event catches its biggest wave yet. All eyes on Barbados’s Soup Bowl
Rawle Gibbons: breaking down the Ivory Tower By Gerard Best | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Rawle Gibbons explains how the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts at UWI’s St Augustine campus rethinks the nature of arts education
Marooned? Guadeloupe’s Jean-Claude Flamand By Georgia Popplewell | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Guadeloupean Jean-Claude Flamand’s Nèg Maron launches a new wave in French Caribbean cinema
Do you believe in magic? By Dylan Kerrigan | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) The true Trini roots of UK pop sensation the Magic Numbers
Rhythm roundup (November/December 2005) By Various Contributors | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) The new music that are reflecting the region right now
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2005) By Philip Sander and Jeremy Taylor | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) The new books that are reflecting the region right now
Damian Marley: The name of the son By Kellie Magnus | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Damian “Jr Gong” Marley steps out of his father’s shadow with his new album Welcome to Jamrock
Have her cake and eat it | Classic By Attillah Springer | Issue 76 (November/December 2005), Issue 160 (November/December 2019) Attillah Springer on the world’s best black cake — her granny’s. Originally published in 2005, this Beat classic was reproduced in the November/December 2019 issue
Ibrahim Ferrer: Bolero Ultimo By Simon Lee | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Simon Lee remembers Ibrahim Ferrer, the honey-voiced Cuban singer who leaped to fame after he starred on the Buena Vista Social Club album
Aishalton dairy By Liam Taylor | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) In Guyana’s remote south Rupununi, the Wapishana village of Aishalton is rarely visited by outsiders. Liam Taylor spent a year teaching there, growing to love the rhythm of this place far from home
Twin-island pleasures: Trinidad & Tobago By Various Contributors | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Trinidad and Tobago may be the Caribbean’s most various country, an unexpected microcosm of the whole region, sometimes bewildering to visitors. Four locals- Jamie Elliot, Pat Ganase, Tracy Assing, and Dylan Kerrigan- offer personal introductions and insiders' tips to help you have a good time
The Latin Music Hotlist By Simon Lee | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) The Hispanic Caribbean boasts a dizzying diverse musical scene, with sounds ranging from son to jibaro, bomba to salsa, cumbia to reggaeton. Where should the enthusiastic amateur start?
Jamaica’s pantomime: upstaging tradition By Kellie Magnus | Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Jamaica’s National Pantomime has been a Christmas-season tradition since the 1940s, entertaining tens of thousands while preserving folk culture
