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Welcome to the latest edition of the Caribbean Beat newsletter! Our November/December 2013 issue (#124) is on Caribbean Airlines and Air Jamaica planes; en route to our subscribers the world over; and online (including as a free flip-book) on our website! We also have a new website coming soon. Here's the latest from Caribbean Beat!


Our new site: a sneak peek




Our cover star, Pierre Garçon



EMBARK

Caribbean Datebook
Mirissa De Four covers events around the Caribbean this issue.



Discover Trinidad’s Divali Nagar, Miami’s international art fair, and Jamaica’s annual pantomime.



THE LOOK
Jamaican designer Kesi Gibson of Kyu Mélange creates handbags inspired by different cultures.



This month’s reading picks — from photography to fiction.



Playlist
Recent tunes to get your feet tapping.


 
COOKUP
In the Dominican Republic, Christmas is time for a feast. But how do you recreate the taste of home when you’re far away? Clara Gonzalez gets creative.

ARRIVE
 
ESCAPES
Marajó Island, in the mouth of the mighty Amazon River, is more than three times the size of Jamaica, and little known outside Brazil. Nicholas Laughlin discovers it’s not exactly the middle of nowhere, but Marajo is as good a place as any to be temporarily cut off from the rest of the world.



ROUND TRIP
In the Caribbean region, our lives our shaped by proximity to water. Here are five delightfully different ways to enjoy being out on the water whether the expanse of the sea that surrounds our islands, or the mighty rivers that drain the South American mainland. Water can be a boundary, a highway, and also a playground — as in these five adventures afloat.


 
OFFTRACK
50 shades of blue
Just a hundred miles north of Caracas, the archipelago of Los Roques is the kind of island paradise that should only exist in the imaginations of guidebook writers. Except its white sand cays and azure waters are the real deal. Laura Montanari finds Los Roques is not too good to be true.

IMMERSE

CLOSEUP & COVER STORY
Caribbean athletes are known for cricket and track and field, but what about football? Not soccer American football. Debbie Jacob talks to four young players with roots in Haiti, Barbados, and Jamaica proud of their island roots, and changing the face of the NFL with their indelible Caribbean spirit. Meet Pierre Garçon, Ramon Harewood, Patrick Chung, and Trevardo Williams.



SNAPSHOT
In her debut book Chick, poet Hannah Lowe — born in the UK to an Afro-Jamaican father and white British mother — comes to terms with family history. She talks to Melissa Richards about finding her voice and identity in her poems.


 
BACKSTORY
Founded by artist John Cox in 1999, Nassau’s Popopstudios International Centre for the Visual Arts has become an international art contender while staying true to its family spirit. Sonia Farmer finds out how.


 
OWN WORDS
Trinidadian DJ Christopher Leacock, a.k.a. the Jillionaire, on the twist of fate that led him to the international DJ project Major Lazer — as told to Tracy Assing.



RIDDEM & RHYME
Garry Steckles isn’t a fan of traditional Yuletide music, “classics” like “White Christmas”. Luckily, Caribbean musicians have created their own genre of seasonal tunes, with a real reggae or calypso vibe.

ENGAGE

GREEN
Dominica, the Antilles’ youngest island, is shaped by awesome volcanic forces beneath its surface — the key to an ambitious and sometimes controversial new geothermal energy project, as Nazma Muller reports.
ON THIS DAY
Two hundred years ago, Haiti’s self-proclaimed king Henri Christophe completed his grand palace of Sans Souci. It was a sumptuous symbol of power, James Ferguson explains but not for long


 
PARTING SHOT
End the year with a bang at Paramaribo’s Owru Yari celebrations
Published since 1992 by MEP Publishers, Caribbean Beat is the inflight magazine of both Caribbean Airlines and Air Jamaica, and the region's leading magazine on Caribbean arts, culture and society.

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