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Our top articles of 2023

Here are the top 10 Caribbean Beat articles — many from deep in our archives — for 2023

The Cedar Men (cedar, 6ft), Garden of Humanity at Art of Transformation: AFRICA GLOBAL. Photo courtesy Ten North Group

By Caroline Taylor and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)

Art buzz (Mar/Apr 2024)

On view: Garden of Humanity (Miami) and The Plural of He (New York)

By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)

Music buzz | Reviews (Mar/Apr 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)

Book buzz | Reviews (Mar/Apr 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

Musicians playing in Casa de la Trova, Santiago de Cuba. Photo by FotosDCuba/Alamy Stock Photo

By Donna Yawching ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)

Where the són always shines | Word of mouth

Donna Yawching on the Festival de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba

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Former Grenadian premier Eric Gairy. Photograph courtesy The Trinidad Express

By James Ferguson

The end of Eric Gairy

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By Franka Philip

Dan is the man

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By Franka Philip

Morris Aberdeen: keeping London locked down

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By Various Contributors

Happenings (January/February 2009)

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A view of the beach at the Sanctuary Cap Cana Golf. Photograph courtesy Cap Cana, Dominican Republic

By David Pye

Tourism drive in the Dominican Republic

For more than 20 years, the Dominican Republic has been known as a Caribbean leader in all-inclusive vacations, competing with the likes of Cuba and certain regions of Mexico for ...

By Bob Berwyn

The coral gardens of Belize’s Cockroach Caye

Rarely do tropical island-dwellers praise hurricanes, so Leigh and I listen when Carlos Miller explains how the periodic storms help sustain the mangrove-coral ecosystem of Cockroach Caye, Belize. We’re standing ...

Incoming medical students don their white coats, a symbol of their chosen profession. Photograph by Joshua Yetman and courtesy SGU

By Lisa Allen-Agostini

School in the sun: Grenada’s St George’s University

Taking a visitor on a tour of St George’s University (SGU), communications officer Prudence Greenidge observes, “We’re in a tremendous growth spurt.” It’s no overstatement: the campus, with its casual, ...

Karen King-Aribisala. Photograph by Thierry Bal, courtesy Peepal Tree Press

By David Katz

Karen King-Aribisala: hanging in the balance

Guyanese-born author Karen King-Aribisala won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (African Region) last year for her intriguing novel The Hangman’s Game, which drifts between the historical past of colonial Guyana and ...

Margaret “Believe” Glynatsis, left, and Chrystal “Skyy” Moncur. Photo courtesy NCity/Scharad Lightbourne

By Laura Dowrich-Phillips

Ncity goes to town

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Artist Ingrid Persaud at the opening of her solo show. Photograph by Joanne Spencer

By Various Contributors

Snapshots (January/February 2009)

Notes from a small museum Artist Ingrid Persaud shines a light on life in Barbados One can’t get much more Establishment than the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, first opened ...

Winford Devine. Photograph by David Wears

By Laura Dowrich-Phillips

Winsford Devine: ‘I can’t stop writing’

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By Mark Lyndersay

Behind the Trinidad Carnival curtain

Any conversation about Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago inevitably turns to the excitement and colour of Monday and Tuesday, the indelible vision of thousands of people in sparkling costumes moving ...

Event buzz (Mar/Apr 2024)

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