The May/June 2013 issue of Caribbean Beat

The May/June 2013 issue (#121) of Caribbean Beat is now out! Read all about what’s in this issue in our latest newsletter here – and while you’re at it, make sure you sign up! Best of all, it’s free!   Enjoy the Beat and have a great weekend, folks!

Interview with Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2013 cover photographer Giancarlo Lalsingh

Got your copy of the 2013 Discover Trinidad & Tobago yet? If not, as we say in T&T, “Yuh sticking.” If you have, then you know that Giancarlo Lalsingh was the one who photographed the gorgeous scarlet ibis on our cover.

“Discover is a great publication put together by a great team of people and I’m proud to be a small part of it,” he told us. Read more

Jeremy Taylor on 21 years of MEP & more

MEP founder and MD Jeremy Taylor on 21 years of MEP, and publishing in Trinidad &Tobago

CT: How did you first become involved in journalism?

Jeremy Taylor as a young journalist in Trinidad

JT: By 1975, I’d done almost five years’ teaching at Fatima College in Trinidad. I knew that pedagogy was not my calling in life. I knew I had to find some other way of making a living. But what? My degree was in English, which did not qualify me to do anything except — well,  teach.

But I liked writing. A couple of years before, I’d been asked to fill in for the Trinidad Express’ music critic while she was on holiday. The editor at the time — David Renwick — must have liked the pieces I gave him, because he kept me on to write about other arts events as they came up. He gave me a television column to write. It came out on Mondays and was called “TV with Taylor” (my classes loved that, as you can imagine). Radio Trinidad asked me to do a weekly five-minute scripted commentary, on anything topical. Read more