

Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
Hear about plans for Carifesta IX, the Caribbean’s major arts festival, which opens in Trinidad and Tobago on 22 September; visit indigenous communities in the Rupununi of Guyana; learn about adventure tourism in the Caribbean; and look back at the life and career of the late Desmond Dekker; plus all our regular departments and a whole lot more.

Dominican musician Nasio Fontaine proclaims the righteous message of reggae on his album Universal Cry

Caribbean bookshelf (September/October 2006)
Elizabeth Nunez’s novel Prospero’s Daughter and a glimpse at the Caribbean’s most glamorous homes

Rhythm roundup (September/October 2006)
New albums celebrate Jamaican mento and the Dominican Republic’s bachata and merengue, plus the latest from Honest Jon and Mystic Revelation

Music buzz (September/October 2006)
Matisyahu proves Jewish reggae is no gimmick; the Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan and Jazz Festival turns four

Art buzz (September/October 2006)
Galvanise stages a major intervention in the Trinidad art scene • Barbara Jardine’s precious masterpieces are sculptures as much as jewels

Island hopper (September/October 2006)
What’s happening in the Caribbean in September and October 2006

Edward Baugh: “Hey, you might be a poet”
Jamaican poet and scholar Edward Baugh on his literary double life — as told to Lisa Allen-Agostini

Great beyond: Guyana’s Rupununi
Guyana’s remote Rupununi savannah is still all but unknown to outsiders

Carifesta IX: celebrating ourselves
In late September, Trinidad and Tobago will host the ninth Caribbean Festival of Arts and Culture, Carifesta IX

On the money
The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago’s Money Museum, partly designed by the late Illya Furlonge-Walker, does more than display coins and banknotes

Faster, higher, deeper: eco adventure in the Caribbean
More and more visitors come to the Caribbean not just for our beaches and our festivals, but for physical adventure

A short history of World Cup Cricket
The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup in the West Indies will be the ninth staging of this major sporting event

Reggae pioneer: Desmond Dekker
Garry Steckles remembers the late Desmond Dekker, the man who introduced Jamaican music to an international audience

Hell or Havana?
Don’t read Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s novel Dirty Havana Trilogy as a work of social realism, says James Ferguson

Good and bad
Garry Steckles finds reason to celebrate in St Kitts, reason to mourn in the London High Court

Holy macaroni | Last word
Caroline Taylor gets homesick for her Tantie’s macaroni pie. So she tries to cook it herself. Trouble now start