Caribbean Beat's January/February 2015 issue

Your guide to the culture & lifestyle of the true Caribbean, new & up to date every two months!

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Happy new year! We hope that you and yours enjoyed a peaceful and joyful holiday season!

A new year means a new Beat, with our January/February 2015 issue (#131) now on Caribbean Airlines and Air Jamaica planes; in the hands of our subscribers the world over; and online (including as a free flip-book) on our website.

Here's the latest from Caribbean Beat! Blessings to you and yours for a wonderful 2015!

EMBARK

Caribbean Datebook

Events around the Caribbean in January and February — from Trinidad Carnival to Jamaican jazz to sailing in Grenada

Word of mouth

Trinidad’s stickfighting season, a new film about the history of steel pan, and St Lucia’s week of Nobel celebrations

THE LOOK

Stella Jean: culture chameleon

Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean draws on her mixed heritage

Bookshelf

This month’s reading picks, from a memoir of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake to a history of doubles

Playlist

New releases to get you in the Carnival groove

COOKUP

The reasoning is the seasoning

There’s a movement afoot on the Jamaican culinary scene, bringing once-peripheral vegan and raw food lifestyles into the mainstream. It’s about bodily health, Kellie Magnus discovers, but it’s also about taste — and about the soul

ARRIVE

DESTINATION

Five centuries in two days

St Kitts and Nevis may be the smallest independent nation in the Americas, but every inch of its landscape is roiling with history. Garry Steckles suggests a two-day tour covering five hundred years of Caribbean life in miniature, from the first British colonial settlement to the beginning of the tourism industry

FAVOURITE

“Our beach”

For filmmakers Howard and Mitzi Allen, pristine Ffryes Bay on Antigua’s south coast is not just a location — it’s a retreat and a repository for memories

ROUND TRIP

Market day

Across the Caribbean, the freshest produce, best bargains, and often the friendliest advice can still be found at traditional markets. Here are six worth exploring, ranging from Dominica to Curaçao to French Guiana

IMMERSE

BACK STORY

Bunji Garlin: send dem riddim crazy

The 2013 hit “Differentology” was his international breakthrough, but Trinidadian soca star Bunji Garlin is no overnight success. Laura Dowrich looks back at Bunji’s rise from the pavements of Arima to the world stage, while Mark Lyndersay offers a personal take on the twenty-year evolution of the artiste’s sound

SPOTLIGHT

Rosalind Gabriel: the kiddies’ queen

Many observers agree that in today’s Carnival the most memorable spectacles happen in “kiddies’ mas.” And bandleader Rosalind Gabriel has been at the forefront for over two decades. Nazma Muller meets the innovator with a taste for tradition

OWN WORDS

Melanie Abrahams: “I like Jamaica, but I’m more Trini-minded”

Melanie Abrahams, London-based literary promoter, on her mixed Caribbean heritage, and using literature to negotiate identity — as told to Joshua Surtees

SNAPSHOT

Versia Harris: once upon a dream

The imaginary worlds that Barbadian Versia Harris creates in her animated video works are inspired by childhood cartoons as much as the landscapes of home. Marsha Pearce talks to the artist about exploring the boundaries of fantasy and reality

ENGAGE

PLUGIN

Are you listening? A decade of Global Voices

For a decade, the international citizen media project Global Voices has helped break through online barriers of country, culture, censorship, and language — and the Caribbean has played a key role almost from the start. Philip Sander finds out more

DISCOVER

Once bitten

It was the Caribbean’s big public health crisis of 2014: a rapidly spreading outbreak of mosquito-borne chikungunya. Nazma Muller investigates how governments have responded, and suggests how visitors to the Caribbean can avoid the dreaded pains and rashes of CHIK-V

ON THIS DAY

Travels with islands

The British writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, born a century ago, is best known for his books on Central Europe and Greece. But his Caribbean travel narrative The Traveller’s Tree stands apart for its curiosity about ordinary lives. James Ferguson rereads this classic

PARTING SHOT

Hear me roar

A stalwart limestone lion guards Barbados’s Gun Hill.

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