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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Parade of lights Neil Marks on the illuminated motorcades of Guyanese Diwali Every Diwali (or Divali, as Trinis spell it), Hindus turn their homes into re-creations of Ayodhya, the ancient ...
Read More →Take four Bajan teenagers, stir in pop music, instruments, and a dose of island energy, and you’d be lucky to come up with the compelling new sound that’s distinctive to ...
Read More →Born in Guyana of Barbadian parentage, Simon Foster was trained at the Royal College of Art in London, and returned to Barbados in the 1970s, where he quickly became a ...
Read More →Our pick The Ladies Are Upstairs, by Merle Collins (Peepal Tree Press, 160 pp, ISBN 9781845231798) Employing short fiction to span a lifetime of experiences can seem, at worst, a ...
Read More →Our pick The Return, by Morgan Heritage (VP Records) After a four-year hiatus, the other royal family of Jamaican reggae has reunited with a four-song EP, forerunner to a full-length ...
Read More →Our pick The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song, directed by Christy Garland (73 minutes) You could say the subject of Christy Garland’s fine documentary The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song ...
Read More →For some, the routine of Christmas cooking has become a series of actions, performed with military precision, that begins months in advance. I still hear some sensible friends speaking about ...
Read More →Over the past decade, contemporary art in Barbados has sometimes seemed dormant. After a wave of talent in the 1990s — artists like Annalee Davis, Joscelyn Gardener, Ras Akyem, and ...
Read More →Like the hummingbirds he loves to paint, George Simon is hard to catch up with. At the age of sixty-five, the Guyanese artist and archaeologist is still as busy and ...
Read More →Davina Lee is editing an episode of the bimonthly Carib Vision TV programme Smile Patrol, which she shot earlier in the week. The host has revealed to the unsuspecting subject ...
Read More →It’s really hard to explain, the feeling you get when you hear the boom boom boom of a box bass, or the sh-k-t sh-k-t of a marac wafting in the ...
Read More →I’ve had the good fortune to see a lot of live reggae over the decades — and getting there has often been half the fun. Particularly when it involved complex ...
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