Nasio Fontaine: hear his cry
Dominican musician Nasio Fontaine proclaims the righteous message of reggae on his album Universal Cry
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.
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 | Classic
Caroline Taylor gets homesick for her Tantie’s macaroni pie. So she tries to cook it herself. Trouble now start...! Originally published in 2006, this Beat classic was reproduced in the May/June 2023 issue
