Topic Tag: carnival

Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados

Pick of the Crop: Barbados’ Crop Over

There’s an old Barbadian expression for walking the hot midday pavement, usually on a tedious mission: “slapping tar”....

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Culture, Film and Television, People

Horace Ové: Coming Home

One moment Horace Ové was busy filming on a Caribbean beach, solving the sort of intellectual and technical problems that beset any...

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Culture

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Caribbean Diaspora

Trinidad Mas: Carnival of the World

In Toronto, a vulture in a paratrooper’s jumpsuit, with wings of black cotton hung like washing on a bamboo pole, wearing a Gulf War...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Grenada

Postcard From Grenada

Dear Jackie, They say Grenada is the “original Caribbean”. You can see why. The place oozes history. St George’s, the...

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Culture, Music, Reviews

Upbeat (Spring 1995)

Troddin Shinehead (Elektra) Shinehead, a prime mover in the fusion of dance hall and hip-hop, has come full circle in his latest release....

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Culture, Music, Festivals and Events

Island Beat (Summer 1995)

A ST LUCIA FRIDAY NIGHT Ten pm On Dauphin Street, the first fragrant plumes of smoke float starward from Mrs Hector’s wood-fired...

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Culture

Island Beat (Autumn 1995)

BARBADOS’S NEW GOLF RESORT AIMS FOR THE TOP Barbados’s new Royal Westmoreland Golf & Country Club is up and running. And...

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