Island Beat (Summer 1994)
CARNIVAL IN ANTIGUA The last week of July and the first Monday and Tuesday in August are set aside for one of the Caribbean’s great...
Telling Tales: Caribbean Storytelling
Thirty 10-year-olds are sitting on the floor with their eyes wide in rapt attention, enthralled. They’re in a primary school somewhere in...
Caribbean Kitchen (Spring 1994)
Fed up with canned and packet soups! Try a good Caribbean recipe. Soups are commonly based on local fruits and vegetables such as avocados,...
Upbeat (Spring 1994)
CARNIVAL ROUNDUP Here Comes the West Indies is the title of David Rudder‘s 1994 album. The music is uptempo, but the themes are...
Bookshelf (Spring 1994)
TRAVEL AND ENVIRONMENT The 1994 issue of the Caribbean Islands Handbook (ed. Ben Box and Sarah Cameron, Trade & Travel Publications in...
David Rudder: The Breakthrough
No doubt about it. David Rudder has booked his place in the history of Caribbean music since his dramatic debut in 1986. “Almost...
Here Comes the Big One
MASQUERADE BANDS The masquerade bands move through the streets on Carnival Monday and Tuesday: up to 3,000 strong, portraying a single...
Kassav: Doctor Zouk
Drums roll. A powerful voice shouts through the microphone: “Zzet veni pou” What did you come for? And the whole place seems to...
