By Various Contributors and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 18 (March/April 1996)
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:...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Grenada
By Merle Gunby ● Issue 20 (July/August 1996)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 25 (May/June 1997)
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...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 31 (May/June 1998)
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...
Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Annabelle Alcazar ● Issue 31 (May/June 1998)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Lifestyle, United Kingdom
By Annabelle Alcazar ● Issue 32 (July/August 1998)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 32 (July/August 1998)
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...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 33 (September/October 1998)
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...