A calendar of events; music, film, and book reviews; travel features; people profiles, and much more.

In the latest issue of Caribbean Beat magazine, we showcase vacation options for every interest and taste, from family getaways in St Lucia to natural rejuvenation in Dominica to solo escapes in Curaçao. Meet four Caribbean athletes taking their Olympic dreams to Tokyo this July, learn why Grand Anse in Grenada may be the region's most celebrated beach, and discover how an innovative institute at the University of the West Indies is changing how we think about traditional herbal remedies. Plus coverage of Caribbean music, culture, and more! 

In the latest issue of Caribbean Beat magazine, we visit some of the region's most tranquil hideaways, from Tobago to Carriacou to Dominica, and explore the stunning Blue Holes of the Bahamas. Meet T&T-born artist Nicole Awai, hear what inspired Barbadian author Cherie Jones to write her acclaimed debut novel, and discover biking adventures in Jamaica, Antigua, and St Lucia. Plus coverage of Caribbean music, culture, fashion, and more!

In the latest issue of Caribbean Beat magazine — back in print for the first time in a year! — we head out to explore Trinidad's north coast by hiking trail, learn about the musical rhythms that animate Santiago, Cuba's second city, and consider three itineraries for a Barbados road trip. Also, meet T&T's iconic novelist Merle Hodge and St Lucia's most medalled athlete, Levern Spencer. Plus coverage of Caribbean music, culture, and more!

The latest digital-only issue of Caribbean Beat magazine rings in 2021 with a collection of Carnival memories, in images and words. T&T Carnival may be cancelled this year because of COVID-19, but it's still a chance to reflect on what we truly love about the annual festival, as we imagine its post-pandemic future. Also in this issue, take a trip to "Green Grenada" — plus coverage of Caribbean music, culture, and more!

Caribbean music, film, and book reviews; destination features; people profiles; a look at treasured events in the age of Covid — and much more

A calendar of events; music, film, and book reviews; travel features; people profiles, and much more

• Events around the Caribbean
• A  fishing tournament in Antigua, and a holiday commemorates the First Peoples and indigenous heritage of Trinidad & Tobago
• This month’s reading, listening, and film-watching picks
• Coffee grown in the Caribbean is some of the world’s finest. Franka Philip talks to the experts about the present state and future prospects for the business of coffee beans
• Nailah Folami Imoja talks to Jason Jeffers, filmmaker and founder of the Third Horizon Film Festival
• Shelly-Ann inniss talks to St Lucian June Soomer, head of the ACS
• St Vincent & the Grenadines: one destination, 32 islands
• Spotlight on Lethem, Guyana
• Discover the islands of the Aegean Sea
• A new restoration project on tiny Redonda
• The Luders affair: ne hundred and twenty years ago, a minor dispute in Port-au-Prince escalated into an international incident
• Puerto Rico’s Cueva Ventana

• 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

In this issue:
• Events around the Caribbean in March & April
• Trinidad & Tobago’s national spoken word poetry slam is full of thrills
• Trinidadian swimwear designer Chandra Maharaj transitions into Carnival Monday wear
• This month’s reading, listening, and  film-watching picks
• From Jamaican goat to Trini doubles, curry is one of the definitive  flavours of the Caribbean
• Guyana's annual Pakaraima Mountain Safari attracts visitors hungry for adventure
• The capital Port Elizabeth in Bequia (SVG) is a haven for yachties — but also for artists and foodies
•  Our guide to exploring Barbados when time is tight
• A group of young artists have begun a public mural project in the Fleet Street area of Kingston, Jamaica, opening opportunities for local residents
• As Caribbean Beat marks its 25th anniversary, we look back at our coverage of Caribbean people, arts, and culture since 1992, sharing the stories of the Caribbean’s best and brightest from a Caribbean perspective, for a Caribbean audience
• Over the past 25 years, we’ve often reported on environmental stories. So what’s the real state of progress across the region, when it comes to protecting our natural resources?
• A beloved musical icon since the 1950s, Harry Belafonte has an equally long reputation as a political activist. Both have their roots in Belafonte’s childhood in Jamaica.

In this issue:
• Caribbean airlines turns 10
• Events around the Caribbean in January & February
• A new museum in Kingston pays tribute to reggae legend Peter Tosh; and it’s Carnival season across the Caribbean!
• Jamaican furniture line Mara Made Designs
• the West Indies blind cricket team & the 2017 World Cup
• This month’s reading, listening, and  film-watching picks
• There are thousands of different Trinidad Carnival stories: here are just a few 
• Andre Bagoo explains why Trinidadian Vahni Capildeo’s poems are so exhilarating
• Judy Raymond tells what’s known of Jamaican Fanny Eaton's story
• Caroline Taylor suggests all the ways tranquil Tobago can soothe your spirit
• Roseau, the capital of Dominica, has a distinctive French Creole charm
• Carnival planet: in countries and cities across the world, the weeks and days before Lent are a season of revelry
• St John’s, Antigua: our guide to exploring the island when time is tight
• Shelly-Ann Inniss on the adoption of electric cars in the Caribbean 
• James Ferguson explores the ambitions that drove European colonisation of our region, as the USVI commemorates Denmark selling its Caribbean possessions to the US

Inside this issue:
• Events around the Caribbean in November & December, from the Bahamas International Film Festival to a celebration of ballet in Cuba
• Word of mouth: the Gimistory festival in Cayman, the Miami Book Fair, soca star Machel Montano's big- screen debut — and paranging till it hurts in Trinidad
• Grenadian designer Ana Granada
• Trinidadian Dexter Webb takes on the New York Marathon
• This month’s reading, music, and film picks
• Grenada born, New York based chef Yvette LaCrette
• The inimitable Calypso Rose of Trinidad & Tobago
• Three artists with Caribbean roots — Jeannette Ehlers, Michelle Eistrup, and Sasha Huber — are making hard-hitting works in Scandinavia
• Leroy Sibbles of the Heptones 
• New fiction by Barbara Jenkins
• Six Barbadians talk about their lives and work, what they love about their home island, and their biggest hopes for the future, as Barbados marks  50 years of Independence
• Exploring Brooklyn, New York
• An alphabet of Caribbean beaches, from A to Z!
• Our quick guide to getting the most out of Georgetown, Guyana when time is tight
• Suggestions for some sustainable and very covetable Caribbean-made holiday gifts
• Caribbean “farmer-preneurs” are changing the way we think about agriculture
• A squadron of battle-hardened guerrillas landed on Cuba’s coast sixty years ago, launching the revolution that would change their country forever
• Nassau’s Junkanoo rush

Inside this issue:
• Events around the Caribbean in September and October, from Indigenous Heritage Month in Guyana to Dominica’s World Creole Music Festival
• Caribbean writers star at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a new musical work remembers the Guyanese poet Martin Carter, and Trinidadians anticipate the sweet treats of Divali
• How four brave Antiguans mastered “the world’s toughest row” — across the wide Atlantic
• Trinidadian design company By Making
• This month’s reading, listening, and  film-watching picks
• A “new indigenous” food movement is turning back to ingredients native to our ecosystems
• Trinidad-born, gay, Chinese-descended, Caribbean diaspora filmmaker Richard Fung was “intersectional” before the term even existed
• Trinidadian architect Sean Leonard, co-founder of the Alice Yard art space
• Jamaican Jean “Binta” Breeze
• Antigua can offer more than a few ways to  fill your days with adventure
• Ponce, Puerto Rico’s second city
• St Lucia's rugged south, and the spectacular peaks of the twin Pitons
• A layover in Port of Spain, Trinidad
• Cuba's CimaVax vaccine may be the biggest breakthrough yet in the treatment of lung cancer 
• Attracting birds and butterflies in your urban garden
• Remembering the Bianca C disaster in Grenada

Inside this issue:
• Events around the Caribbean in July and August, from a diving festival in Dominica to Carnival in St Lucia 
• Barbados Crop Over and the Leeds West Indian Carnival 
• Is the Caribbean Premier League the start of a West Indies cricket revival?
• Some go hashing for the exercise. Others are motivated by the booze
• Does medicine hold the key to diversifying Caribbean tourism?
• This month’s reading and listening picks
• Franka Philip explains why knowing where your produce comes from adds something special to your meal
• When it comes to athletics, the Caribbean — Jamaica in particular — has dominated the  eld for the past decade. And as the 2016 Olympics open this August in Rio de Janeiro, all eyes will be on Usain Bolt and his peers from across the region. Kwame Laurence pro les some of our leading Olympic contenders
• The  1st woman to be elected Commonwealth secretary-general, Dominica-born Patricia Scotland has made history in more ways than one over her stellar career. 
• Two hundred years ago, a group of free black veterans of the War of 1812 arrived in Trinidad. In the island’s deep south, the villages they founded still preserve the traditions of the “Merikins” 
• Come to Suriname and see the whole world
• For many visitors to Jamaica, the capital Kingston, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, is just the gateway to the country’s beach resorts. 
• Shaped by subterranean forces, the islands of the Lesser Antilles are an arc of volcanoes — some extinct, some dormant, some still active. 
• When Chevaughn and Noel Joseph’s young son was diagnosed with a rare cancer, they vowed to help others families in need, Lisa Allen-Agostini reports
• When a software developer deleted a key piece of code, thousands of websites around the world “broke” — and Trinidadian Laurie Voss had to help undo the damage
• The history of Caribbean victory at the Olympic Games goes back more than a century
• What gives Barbuda’s famous pink sand beaches their rosy blush?

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