Our top articles of 2011

Machel Montano whips up the crowd into a frenzy. Photo: Mark Lyndersay

It’s been a long time in the making, but this year we finally re-launched all three of our flagship websites: Discover Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean Beat, and of course our main MEP website which now also incorporates our blog.

Big thanks to Caribbean Ideas and Optik Technologies for helping us make them happen.

And what’s been our most popular content for 2011? These are the top 10 articles of 2011 on each of our websites.

The blog

We launched the new MEP site in late November, and imported all of our content from our old blog at Blogger. These are the blog posts that got the greatest number of page views for 2011:

Discover Trinidad & Tobago

Argyle Falls in Tobago. Photo: Caroline Taylor

The Discover site has been in the works for a couple of years. Never satisfied, we’re still tweaking it! But this is the most viewed content about our beautiful islands:

Caribbean Beat

Buju Banton. Photo: Jonathan Mannion

The Beat website relaunched in beta on 1 November of this year. Unsurprisingly, eight of the 10 most viewed articles are from our current issue (#112: November/December 2011). But there are two stand-outs: Skye Hernandez’s “Caribbean Christmas” from issue #22 (November/December 1996) and Jeremy Taylor‘s “Derek Walcott’s Nobel works” from issue #5 (March/April 1993). We look forward to seeing what content rises to the top in 2012, as the website leaves beta and receives a full-fledged launch!