Caribbean Beat launches Readers’ Choice Awards with new Heather Headley issue
It’s that time again! Our exciting new issue (#115: May/June 2012) – featuring the incredible Heather Headley – is on Caribbean Airlines and Air Jamaica planes; in the mail to subscribers; and online, where you can also access a complete flip-book of the current issue - free! Here’s a look at all that’s hot and happening in the Caribbean and its diaspora, plus everything you need to submit nominations for the Caribbean Beat Readers’ Choice Awards!
Tickets now on sale for Heather Headley in the West End premiere of ‘The Bodyguard’
Heather Headley and Lloyd Owen at the launch of The Bodyguard Musical in London. Photo: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images Europe, courtesy The Bodyguard
Musical theatre fans and Trini patriots the world over need wait no longer to get their tickets for the London premiere of the new musical adaptation of The Bodyguard, which stars Grammy and Tony Award-winning Trinidadian actor, singer and songwriter Heather Headley in her West End debut.
Perfectly timed with the launch of two MEP features on Heather Headley (shameless plug, yes!) in Discover Trinidad and Tobago (the full transcript of our interview with Headley) and Caribbean Beat (Headley was our cover story), The Bodyguard held its official launch on 1st May.
Discover Trinidad & Tobago open photo call 2012
It’s that time of year again! We already have our list of treasured photographers we reach out to, but since there’s new talent emerging every day we like to make sure we don’t miss anyone – or any photo – that’s fabulous! Read 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 
Trinidad-style Carnival coming to Phoenix, Arizona, USA this Memorial Day weekend
Map of Phoenix Metropolitan Area Valley of the Sun (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Trinidad has long been the birthplace of Trinidad-styled Carnivals the world over, and each year it seems another Trini-style Carnival celebration is launched in another North American or European outpost.
This May, a new one takes root in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Heralded as the “first ever” Trinidad & Tobago-styled Carnival, the Phoenix Carnival debuts 25–28th May (Memorial Day weekend in the US) in “the Valley of the Sun”. It also asserts to be one of only a few such carnivals officially sanctioned by the government of Trinidad & Tobago. Read more
