Our top articles of 2023
Here are the top 10 Caribbean Beat articles — many from deep in our archives — for 2023
Homepage Slider, Festivals and Events
29 February, 2024
Essential info about what’s happening across the region in March and April
Homepage Slider, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
29 February, 2024
Tobago’s unique Easter goat and crab racing in Buccoo is one for your bucket list. Aisha Sylvester tells us why
29 February, 2024
Tree-planting, reforestation, and ensuring the integrity of our waterways are all critical to preserving mangroves — the remarkable forests with the power to protect us from the worst effects of climate change. Erline Andrews learns more
Homepage Slider, Travel, Festivals and Events, Food and Cuisine, People, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago
29 February, 2024
Five regional travel influencers (Cindy Allman, Samantha Gittens, Shea Powell, Stephen Bennett, and Francesca Murray) share their favourite things about Easter time across the Caribbean — as told to Shelly-Ann Inniss
By Caroline Taylor ● News & Online Exclusives
Here are the top 10 Caribbean Beat articles — many from deep in our archives — for 2023
By Caroline Taylor and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
On view: Garden of Humanity (Miami) and The Plural of He (New York)
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring reviews by Nigel Campbell of new music by Reginald Cyntje; DaWchY; Micwise; and Stephen Marley
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull; Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant; Elektrik: Caribbean Writing; and Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell
By Donna Yawching ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
Donna Yawching on the Festival de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba
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Sitting in his Georgetown garden in the early evening, with little frogs singing from the shrubbery, Ian McDonald chuckles over stories of his early days in Guyana. He first came ...
Read More →One night, as Trinidadian musician Theron Shaw was returning home from a rehearsal, a speeding car rammed into him on the dark highway. Fortunately, he was driving a rock-steady car, ...
Read More →Christopher Henry Gayle unleashed his famously powerful batting on the hapless England team in a fleeting glimpse of West Indian glory in November last year. This feat for the Stanford ...
Read More →Undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of the Jamaican music industry, Byron Lee was also a giant of the soca world. In a career that stretched ...
Read More →In September 1699, after a two-month Atlantic crossing, a Dutch ship approached the north-eastern shoulder of South America. Skirting the coast, an expanse of mud-flat and mangrove, the vessel turned ...
Read More →I never wanted to be an attorney when I was growing up. I wanted to teach English, at either the high school or university level. After getting two degrees in ...
Read More →It began with the Butterfly. One minute we Trinis were wining along, as we had done for decades, to soca, reggae and anything with a jumpy beat. Then, out of ...
Read More →Raconteur Paul Keens-Douglas’ skit on fete match cricket lists the elements that add up to success: volume of rum drunk, amount of food eaten, and number of women present. And ...
Read More →Trinidad’s Space La Nouba nightclub, as the name suggests, aims to give patrons an “out of this world” experience. Designer Brian McFarlane (also known for his carnival costume designs), worked ...
Read More →Every story, including your own life, has a beginning, a middle and an end. Some of us don’t always know which phase we’re in while we’re living it. Some people, ...
Read More →CD REVIEWS Some Enchanted Evening Marvin Smith Some Enchanted Evening is the debut album from Trinidadian lyric baritone Marvin Smith. Eleven tracks long, this disc features Smith’s take on familiar ...
Read More →When I first heard that Byron Lee had left us, the memories came flooding back. And while I was deeply saddened by the passing of a man I’d liked and ...
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