Topic Tag: carnival

Culture

Island Beat (March/April 1996)

May Days From Tobago, the call goes out to the Caribbean sailing community: “Mayday! Mayday!” Or perhaps that should read:...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Grenada

Carnival in Grenada

The Dimanche Gras calypso contest the previous evening had kept us out late, and we were sleeping soundly in the cool, pre-dawn darkness...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados

Barbados Crop Over

Crop Over, Barbados’s biggest festival, begins in early July and climaxes with the Grand Kadooment costume-band road march on the first...

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Culture

Island Beat (May/June 1998)

ANTIGUA This is the island with 365 beaches, one for every day of the year; most of the leading hotels are on the beachfront. Antigua also...

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Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Jane Downer: Healing Art

Since the days of Walter Raleigh, the name La Brea has been synonymous with Trinidad’s Pitch Lake (La Brea means pitch in Spanish). Its...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Lifestyle, United Kingdom

Notting Hill Carnival: Coming from the Cold

August Bank Holiday, the last Monday in August, marks the end of the summer holiday season, and for most of Britain is the time for the...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados

Harvest of Fun: Barbados Crop Over

A carefree colony of revellers prances down the road, sandwiched between the fiery midday sun and scorching tar. As the spangled mass...

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Culture

Island Beat (September/October 1998)

ANTIGUA Up, up in the sky . . . You’re in Antigua, lying flat on your back on one of those famous beaches, drinking in the sun and a...

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