In this issue

Inside this issue:
• Events around the Caribbean in March and April, from St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Montserrat to the Tobago Jazz Experience
• Dry season is now literature season in the Caribbean, with half a dozen festivals bringing writers to readers, plus a new exhibition in London captures the heyday of lovers rock
• Designer Kristin Frazer of the British Virgin Islands
• Our latest reading and listening picks: from novels and poetry to jazz and soca
• Nazma Muller shares recipes for seasonal dishes from up and down the islands: Jamaican Easter bun, Bajan-style fried ying sh, and Martinique’s spicy matoutou crab stew
• Philip Sander talks to sci- authors Nalo Hopkinson, Tobias Buckell, Karen Lord, and R.S.A. Garcia
• Barbadian Troy Weekes, systems designer and education entrepreneur
• Judy Raymond tells the story of young historian Angelo Bissessarsingh's archive and love for what once was
• Andre Bagoo visits Trinidad’s Pointe-à-Pierre Wildfowl Trust, celebrating ve decades of nurturing endangered birds
• St Lucian writer and cultural activist John Robert Lee on the the sheltered beach at Rodney Bay
• Discover Nassau, Bahamas
• Georgia Popplewell compiles a handy survey of the best travel websites and apps
• Zora Neale Hurston is better remembered for her fiction, writes James ferguson, but her book Tell My Horse remains a fascinating record of Jamaica and Haiti in the 1930s.

Caribbean Beat Magazine Description:

Published since 1992 by Media & Editorial Projects Ltd (MEP Publishers) as the inflight magazine of BWIA and now the award-winning Caribbean Airlines (and Air Jamaica), Caribbean Beat is the Caribbean’s leading magazine on Caribbean and West Indian arts, culture and society. Beat is a magazine about the real Caribbean — a general-interest, pan-Caribbean publication, produced in the West Indies, by Caribbean people. It gets behind the familiar stereotypes to show how rich Caribbean life really is – its music, art, dance, books, sport, fashion, design, festivals, history, environment, people, lifestyle. This is the region’s most widely-distributed magazine, committed to the highest editorial and production standards.