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ISSUE 104 – JULY/AUGUST 2010
In this issue of Caribbean Beat, Mirissa De Four paid a visit to a new eco-friendly park on Trinidad's north coast ... Matthew Barker explored Costa Rica's east coast ... Barry Chevannes reflects on the life and legacy of his friend and colleague Rex Nettleford ... Nazma Muller asked about the life lessons that Ziggy Marley is helping to teach ... James Fuller went fishing off the shores of Tobago ... Garry Steckles spoke to veteran reggae singer Jimmy Cliff about his plan to act his way right to the top ... Franka Philip found out how complicated it is to create recipes ... Skye Hernandez heard what former artist Moises Jonas is doing to help his devastated homeland of Haiti ...

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Happenings	Travel	People

HAPPENINGS A round-up of current and coming events on the Caribbean calendar	COSTA RICA’S CARIBBEAN CORNER Cut off for more than a century, the country’s east coast is now reachable by road. Matthew Barker explored its Caribbean connections	A KING AMONG MEN He was known throughout the region and beyond as a scholar, dancer, teacher, and a Caribbean man. Rex Nettleford remembered, by his friend and colleague Barry Chevannes
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BEAT TRIBUTE: REMEMBERING
Caroline Taylor looks at the various international events commemorating the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire
from Issue 84

BOOK BUZZ: BOOK BUZZ
Losers take centrestage in The Finalists, and the steelpan becomes a magical entity in The Adventures of the Magic Steelpan: How Grandpa Conks Got His Name
from Issue 86

RIDDEM & RHYME: THE MAN WHO FILLS BOB MARLEY’S SHOES
The reggae superstar is a hard act to follow. Garry Steckles marvels at the chutzpah of the Wailers’ new lead singer, Elian Attias
from Issue 97

OWN WORDS: THE RIDE OF YOUNG BILL ROGERS
His father was Guyana’s first international recording artiste and he is intent on keeping that legacy alive. Roger Hinds, Guyana’s 2008 Calypso Monarch, talks to Ruth Osman
from Issue 94

ARCHIVE (1992 - 2006)

FESTIVAL BEAT: JUNKANOO RUSH
In the early twentieth century, Bahamas Junkanoo — or John Canoe — was considered a danger to polite society. Today, this Christmas season festival with roots in former New World slave societies has become a celebration of Bahamian culture. Krista Thompson explains the evolution of the festival
from Issue 82

HEARTBEAT: The Sound of Christmas
Georgia Popplewell explores the heady rhythms of Trinidad’s Christmas music, Parang.
from Issue 28

BEAT PROFILE: Looking Back In Anger
"Angry, fearless, and sharply funny, Jamaica Kincaid’s novels and short stories explore the repossession of the self and the assertion of individual independence in the face of dehumanising history. In books like Annie John and The Autobiography of My Mother she transforms her family history into narratives of loss and defiance; she does not write happy endings. Jeremy Taylor tells the story of Elaine Potter Richardson, the bookish girl from Antigua who moved to New York and reinvented herself as the celebrated writer Jamaica Kincaid, coming to terms with her painful past as she does her “duty to make everyone a little less happy”, and discovering contentment in her garden in rural Vermont"
from Issue 67