Lying on a narrow strip along the coast of Westmoreland’s westernmost tip (try saying that 10 times fast!), Negril is “irie” Jamaica at its best — and the ever-popular, ever-buzzing, ever-beautiful Seven Mile Beach is one of its star attractions. Teeming with bars, restaurants, souvenir stalls, music, watersports, and colourful vendors like this one (who’s …
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Jonathan Ali talks to Malaury Eloi Paisley of Guadeloupe, director of L’Homme-Vertige: Tales from a City Malaury Eloi-Paisley: “I believe that cinema is not separate from life” In 2016, the filmmaker Malaury Eloi-Paisley began documenting Pointe-à-Pitre — her hometown and the administrative centre of Guadeloupe, a Caribbean department of France. Specifically, she filmed the lives …
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This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring reviews by Nigel Campbell of new music by Monty Alexander; Etienne Charles; John Sqweird; and Rai Hana Monty Alexander D-Day! (Peewee!) One could argue that, when making new music, an artist of legendary Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander’s calibre — with more than 70 albums over …
Stepping up is something that Caribbean nations are accustomed to — harnessing talent, putting in the hard work, surpassing expectations by punching above our weight. It’s little surprise, then, that this talent and determination has seen us excel on the biggest sporting stage of all — ultimately stepping up to the top of the Olympic …
Endangered turtles return to Caribbean shores through nesting season The Caribbean is among the most important turtle nesting grounds globally — particularly Trinidad, which is the second largest nesting site for leatherbacks in the world, and the largest in the western hemisphere. And May through August is the best time to see both the nesting …
Bring on the competition, the intrigue, stories of success and despair. Years of preparation will be tested over two weeks of sporting excellence, as the nations of the world converge in France for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Ouvrons grand les Jeux — “Games wide open” — is a fitting motto, as 10,500 athletes will …
Donna Yawching shares why you must visit the unforgettable Children’s Gallery in the Barbados Museum, then takes us inside Cuba’s Gibara International Film Festival The post Word of mouth (Jul/Aug 2024) appeared first on Caribbean Beat Magazine. Source link
You can forget how powerful the light of the moon is until you’re on a deserted beach — far from any man-made light pollution, beneath a partially cloudy sky on a full moon night. The visibility changes profoundly with each passing cloud: in one moment, near total darkness; in the next, the rocks and trees …
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey; Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo; Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean edited by Marsha Pearce; and The Hurricane Book: A Lyrical History by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey …
Just under 1600 miles apart, the American state of Pennsylvania and the Caribbean island of Jamaica might seem to have little in common. Some Pennsylvanians visit Jamaica for some winter sun, and a sizable number of people of Jamaican origin have settled in and around Philadelphia. Yet their historical and cultural trajectories seem largely different …