By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
Island hopper (July/August 2007)
We don’t call it summer, but as in most places, it’s holiday season in the Caribbean. School is out, the beaches are beckoning and...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 80 (July/August 2006)
Island hopper (July/August 2006)
In July and August, most of the Caribbean’s schoolchildren are on their long vacation, and it’s the height of the rainy season —...
By Robert Edison Sandiford ● Issue 80 (July/August 2006)
Betty West: “When they look tired I say, ‘Look at me!’”
I used to be a modern jazz dancer in England, and then I went into modelling. I lived in England for twenty years. And then I came back to...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Barbados
By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 59 (January/February 2003)
Barbados: Total Vacation
What is it about Barbados that keeps pulling people back? “Come Back to Barbados”, the slogan used to say, and that’s what people do....
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 56 (July/August 2002)
Caribbean Datebook (July/August 2002)
JULY National Dance Theatre Company’s Season of Dance, Jamaica (July–August) Jamaica’s internationally celebrated dance company at...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 116 (July/August 2012)
Happenings – July/August 2012
BARBADOS Crop Over time The Caribbean calendar has carnivals and carnival-style festivals vying for attention all year. In Barbados, the...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 101 (January/February 2010)
Happenings (January/February 2010)
Madness everywhere: T&T mas There’s something for everyone in the weeks leading up to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. Whether you’re...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 104 (July/August 2010)
Happenings (July/August 2010)
Celebrating Crop Over Wayne Simmons and Mark Jason Welch It’s time for Crop Over, the annual festival that sweeps across the green hills,...