Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
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”....
Culture, Film and Television, People
By Polly Pattullo ● Issue 10 (Summer 1994)
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...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 10 (Summer 1994)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Caribbean Diaspora
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 12 (Winter 1994)
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...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Grenada
By Various Contributors ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Postcard From Grenada
Dear Jackie, They say Grenada is the “original Caribbean”. You can see why. The place oozes history. St George’s, the...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
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....
Culture, Music, Festivals and Events
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 14 (Summer 1995)
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...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 15 (September/October 1995)
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...