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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A pioneering ornithologist, teacher, opera enthusiast, and one of Trinidad’s favourite adopted sons has been welcomed back to the Caribbean for what could be the last time. “We’re thinking it ...
Read More →Danish guitarist Anders Kappel Ovre’s fingers are nimble storytellers. He is playing Asturias from Albéniz’ Suite Espagnole, and without hesitation, they tell the tale of a city as an earthquake ...
Read More →Roy AK Heath, who has died aged 81, was a writer whose work vividly explored the complex situation of contemporary Guyana. Heath’s central characters typically displayed the emotional turmoil that ...
Read More →Junot Díaz was born on New Year’s Eve, 1968 in a barrio of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. When he was six he relocated with his family to the ...
Read More →They walk on stage in a tinkling, shimmering shower of bells, and then there is silence. The lights come up. “Ta-ta-ta-te-ta….” intones a dancer into the mic. The dance begins. ...
Read More →“Socialist mosquitoes. Bred to suck your blood through American denim. And forget your repellent, they’re immune to that s—.” Assistant tutor Roberto offers this sage counsel as we swat ourselves ...
Read More →Jounen Kwéyòl is the biggest festival in St Lucia, apart from the island’s annual jazz festival. But, landing at the GFL Charles airport on the culminating day of the event ...
Read More →As part of its world tour, titled Humanity, the legendary American rock band The Scorpions will perform in Trinidad on September 23—with local band Orange Sky as their main opening ...
Read More →Alive Imij & Co “Alive” aptly describes this latest disc from one of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading soca bands.It kicks off with the 2006 T&T Carnival hit Big Bottom Gyal, ...
Read More →In the house of the spirits In 1956 Frances Henry, a young white American student, arrived in Trinidad to research the Orisha faith, and was lucky enough to be taken ...
Read More →Yes, folks, Roger Steffens’ reggae archives are for sale. Steffens, an actor, broadcaster, author, journalist, musicologist, Vietnam vet, globe-trotting lecturer, photographer and arguably the world’s leading authority on Jamaican music, ...
Read More →How often does a small Caribbean island make headlines around the world? Probably the last time was 25 years ago, on October 25, 1983, when 6,000 US Marines took part ...
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