Datebook (May/June 2000)
MAY Labour Day/ May Day (1st) A public holiday in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Barbados and St Lucia Fisherman’s Day (1st)...
More to Jamaica than jerk
From fiery seasoned meat and inventive seafood dishes to oak-aged rums and hearty stouts, Jamaican cuisine is an eclectic mix of African,...
Happenings (January/February 2009)
Beat of the Big Apple Caribbean Beat sales manager Helen Shair-Singh recently returned from New York with good news: you can now read your...
Happenings (March/April 2008)
More mas in St Maarten Judy H Fitzpatrick There’s something especially captivating about Carnival in the tiny Dutch/French island of St...
Tracking Anansi
“The Cunha Cunha pass? Man, you crazy if you think you can walk the Cunha Cunha pass today!” warned my landlady, as the skies glowered...
Suriname: kingdom of the silk cotton tree
Stand on a bustling Paramaribo street corner for five minutes and you’ll see the multicultural history of Suriname walking past. The...
Island hopper – Janurary/February 2006
Across the Caribbean, as around the world, people welcome the new year at the stroke of midnight on 1 January with fireworks, music, kisses...
Hit the road in St. Lucia
GO WEST, OLD MAN St Lucia’s west coast road, heading south, is narrow and winding, twisting its way up and down as it hugs unforgiving...
