Stories of steel — the future of the steelpan | Panorama By Mark Lyndersay and Sharmain Baboolal | Issue 156 (March/April 2019), Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020) Carnival is the season of steelpan. But behind the Panorama stage, the future of T&T’s national musical instrument will be shaped by administrators, craftspeople, arrangers, and educators — like these men and women profiled by writer Sharmain Baboolal and photographer Mark Lyndersay
Need to know | Events calendar (Jan/Feb 2019) By David Katz and Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) Essential info to help you make the most of January and February across the Caribbean — from jazz in Haiti to reggae month in Jamaica to a film festival in Barbados
Playlist (Nov/Dec 2018) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Millbeatz; Jonathan Scales Fourchestra; Anthony Joseph; and Lyfe Az Rose
Jeanine De Bique: “It doesn’t matter where you come from” | Own words By Caroline Taylor | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) Jeanine De Bique, Trinidad-born classical singer, on the influence of her upbringing, and why Trinis “could do anything” — as told to Caroline Taylor
Port of Spain: the story of a city | Backstory By Judy Raymond | Issue 151 (May/June 2018) A childhood encounter with a touring steelband began Stephen Stuempfle’s connection with Trinidad. Now the US scholar has written an illuminating history of Port of Spain in the era before Independence. As Judy Raymond learns, Stuempfle’s research has only deepened his love for T&T’s capital
Heart of Steel By Kris Rampersad | Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Derek Walcott's Steel makes its Port of Spain debut
Island Beat (Autumn 1993) By Various Contributors | Issue 7 (Autumn 1993) Barbados triumphs at the Chelsea Flower Show, St Lucia launches a new arts festival, St Maarten stages an October fashion fest, Trinidad and Tobago prepares for the Pan Jazz festival, Antigua moves to protect the frigatebird nesting site in Barbuda
Here Comes the Big One By Debbie Jacob | Issue 8 (Winter 1993) As the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival season gets under way - it reaches a climax on February 14-15 - Debbie Jacob notes some of the names you can't escape in the home of Caribbean Carnival
