Santiago de Cuba | Neighbourhood
Streetscape The heart of Santiago de Cuba is the paved Parque Céspedes — more of a plaza than a park. Around it are the cathedral, the...
Playlist (May/June 2017) | Music Reviews
R.E.D. — British Dependency VPAL Music Anguillan music trio British Dependency — Joyah (bass), Ishmael (guitar), and Jaiden (drums) —...
Word of mouth (January/February 2017)
House of Tosh Three decades after the violent death of Peter Tosh, a new Kingston museum remembers the legacy of the reggae superstar....
Carnival planet
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil It’s the world’s biggest Carnival — with over two million revellers on the streets — and probably the most...
Carnival is mine
Family of steel During the Carnival season, large steel orchestras dominate the national Panorama competition, but year-round, the spirit...
Word of mouth (July/August 2016)
Start with the music Nailah Folami Imoja gives a run-down of her favourite events in Barbados’s Crop Over calendar Crop Over — the...
Carnival Countdown (Part 1)
It’s Carnival Time Again It seems like only yesterday we were being swept along on the tide of Sanell Dempster’s The River and...
Pelau vs Pelau
Pelau is to Trinidadians and Tobagonians at Carnival time what hot dogs are to Americans on the Fourth of July — but much healthier. The...
