By Various Contributors ● Issue 74 (July/August 2005)
The buzz
Her majesty Reggaeton — a cross-cultural musical fusion of Jamaican dancehall rhythms, US-style hip-hop, Latin American vocals, and...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
Happenings (September/October 2011)
Divali: a holy time for Hindus The Hindu community throughout the world celebrates Divali – the triumph of good over evil, or that of...
Film and Television, Theatre and Dance, Arts, People, Guyana
By Marina Salandy-Brown ● Issue 4 (Winter 1992)
Beaton at his own game
Norman Beaton arrived home to be interviewed precisely at the appointed time in a stately white 1940s Bentley. His man of business, who was...
Culture, Film and Television, History, Lifestyle
By Susan Ward ● Issue 12 (Winter 1994)
Hollywood in the Caribbean
Before the Second World War, Hollywood couldn’t afford real locations for pictures with exotic settings – if it had the budget, it...
Culture, Music, People, United Kingdom, Jamaica
By Michael Church ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Caribbean Cleo — the Amazing Cleo Laine
Cleo Laine was 26 when she learnt that she had been born to unmarried parents. She’d never had a passport, suddenly needed one for a...
Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By BC Pires ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
Westwood Park: Lights, Camera, Bacchanal
Dallas, the progenitor of all modern night-time soap operas, changed American culture so dramatically, if you please, that when Larry...