Caribbean Beat - July/August 2016 Issue 140

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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?