In this issue

• Events around the Caribbean in May & June, from the Timehri Film Festival in Guyana to Dominica’s Hike Fest, and the Pure Grenada Music Festival
• Traces of Indian Bhojpuri still liven Guyanese speech
• Derek Walcott (1930–2017), St Lucian poet, playwright, and Nobel laureate
• Reading, listening, and film-watching picks
• A new generation of artisan chocolatiers are creating unique world-class chocolate products from Trinidad & Tobago’s cocoa
• Photographer Andrea de Silva and writer Alva Viarruel explore the landscape of Indo-Trinidadian culture
• The Gros Islet (St Lucia) has become the island’s tourism centre
• Llewellyn “Sunshine” Caines’ famous Pinney’s Beach bar, plus why a new geothermal project could soon make Nevis one of the world’s greenest destinations, and an exporter of energy to its neighbours
• On a business trip to Nassau, Bahamas with a few hours to spare? Overnighting before you board your cruise ship? You can still catch the essential flavour
• 25 for 25: Caribbean Beat celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2017, looking back and looking ahead to the new generation of Caribbean people who will shape the decades ahead. Here are 25 athletes and entrepreneurs, artists and scientists under 25
• The spiky Aloe vera plant is a favourite of Caribbean gardens, its bitter gel used as a moisturiser, stomach remedy, and ingredient in healthy tonics. Aruba is banking on it as an economic wonder too
• It’s considered a landmark of ornithology, and it was published 190 years ago: John James Audubon’s massive Birds of America. Born in Haiti, Audubon’s
legacy in science and conservation still endures
• Suriname’s blue poison dart frog is a living treasure of the rainforest

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.