Our top articles of 2023
Here are the top 10 Caribbean Beat articles — many from deep in our archives — for 2023
Homepage Slider, Festivals and Events
29 February, 2024
Essential info about what’s happening across the region in March and April
Homepage Slider, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
29 February, 2024
Tobago’s unique Easter goat and crab racing in Buccoo is one for your bucket list. Aisha Sylvester tells us why
29 February, 2024
Tree-planting, reforestation, and ensuring the integrity of our waterways are all critical to preserving mangroves — the remarkable forests with the power to protect us from the worst effects of climate change. Erline Andrews learns more
Homepage Slider, Travel, Festivals and Events, Food and Cuisine, People, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago
29 February, 2024
Five regional travel influencers (Cindy Allman, Samantha Gittens, Shea Powell, Stephen Bennett, and Francesca Murray) share their favourite things about Easter time across the Caribbean — as told to Shelly-Ann Inniss
By Caroline Taylor ● News & Online Exclusives
Here are the top 10 Caribbean Beat articles — many from deep in our archives — for 2023
By Caroline Taylor and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
On view: Garden of Humanity (Miami) and The Plural of He (New York)
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring reviews by Nigel Campbell of new music by Reginald Cyntje; DaWchY; Micwise; and Stephen Marley
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull; Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant; Elektrik: Caribbean Writing; and Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell
By Donna Yawching ● Issue 181 (March/April 2024)
Donna Yawching on the Festival de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba
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Carnivals abound across the region at this time of year. Marvin George explores both their differences and their common threads
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Read More →Some 100 years after becoming the world’s first free Black republic, Haiti remained without a national anthem. James Ferguson looks at the creation of “La Dessalinienne”
Read More →The Caribbean has a plastic pollution problem. But, reports Karen McDonald Gayle, community groups have been leading the way to ensure we can continue to enjoy our beautiful bodies of ...
Read More →Meet the unforgettable Myrl Parker of Scarborough, Tobago
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Read More →Jeremy Taylor previews a special concert that brings together Cuban-born pianist and composer Chucho Valdés (and his acclaimed Royal Quartet) with Trinidad & Tobago’s brilliant trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles
Read More →Shelly-Ann Inniss previews the kinetic art exhibition, Symphonic Synchrony — Two Heads are Better Than One
Read More →This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring reviews by Nigel A Campbell of new music by Jonathan Scales Fourchestra; Etienne Charles; Hey Choppi; and Hugh Masekela & Siparia ...
Read More →This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur; The Mother Island by Jacinth Howard; Song for My Father ...
Read More →Jonathan Ali talks to Ian Harnarine about his feature film, Doubles
Read More →Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. Why is it that so many Christmas images ...
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