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Interview with Marcia Forbes, PhD

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Hotel Tracker: True Blue Bay Hotel in Grenada for $212 a Night in March

The road curves past marinas and low hills on Grenada’s southwest coast, then drops toward Prickly Bay, where sailboats rest at anchor and the water stays calm through most of the day. True Blue Bay Hotel sits right along the edge of the bay, close enough that you see masts and ripples from balconies and […]

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Grenada Mourns its Greatest Storyteller

By Lincoln Depradine Grenada is mourning the loss of national icon Aunty Tek Phillip, a renowned folklorist who died yesterday at the age of 85. “The death of Aunty Tek is a monumental loss to our cultural community,” said Sen. Arley Gill, Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism. “Aunty Tek has been an […]

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Bahamas Honours Junkanoo Legends

Background, from left: Philip Cooper, chairman; Minister Charles Maynard; Deputy to the Governor General, Frank Watson; Linda Moxey-Brown, Director of Culture; and Silbert Ferguson. Standing left to right: Eddison Dames, Colon Curry, Theopilus Ferguson, Kevin Rahming, Wellington Moultrie, and a family member for Kenneth Fox. (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas […]

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CARIFESTA to Make Return in Suriname

Above: CARIFESTA in 2006 in Port of Spain (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARIFESTA, the Caribbean festival of the creative and performing arts, will return after what will have been a five-year hiatus, with Suriname hosting the event in 2013. Guyana last hosted the festival in 2008, and although some countries, such as […]

Bahamas Honours Junkanoo Legends

By Lincoln Depradine The weekend had barely ended but cultural officials already had begun making preparations to create additional avenues for displaying Grenada’s traditional folk culture. They have expressed deep satisfaction with the crowd attendance and the artists’ performances at the second annual Camerhogne Folk Festival held last weekend in the town of Sauteurs in […]

Is Rum Barbados' Newest Green Energy?

Above: the Mount Gay Distillery in Barbados By the Caribbean Journal staff Like most industries, Barbados’ rum sector is facing rising energy costs — but one Barbadian minister has a solution. By using vinasse, which is the material output from the manufacture of rum and ethanol, the country could produce biogas — something which could […]

Bahamian Art Exhibition to Examine the Photography of Deception

Above: Popopstudios in Nassau (Artwork pictured: Homerun, by John Cox from the “Negative Space” exhibition) By the Caribbean Journal staff A new exhibition to open in the Bahamas Dec. 8 will take a photographic look at the theme of deception. The programme, featured by Nassau’s Popopstudios, will look at the work of 17 visual artists […]

A Calypso Legend Returns Home

By Lincoln Depradine Brother Valentino, one of the world’s calypso legends, will be returning home to Grenada for a weekend of entertainment in St Patrick, the country’s northernmost parish, in next week. Valentino will be joined by Black Stalin and 2011 Grenada Calypso monarch Pamela Courtney, among other artists. for the Camerhogne Folk Festival in […]

Author Carine Fabius on Haiti, Voodoo and Her New Book, "Saturday Comes"

Author Carine Fabius’ literary career has spanned the globe – from an examination of the cross-cultural relationships in France to a look at how indigenous tribes in the Amazon adorn their bodies with the juice of a fruit called the jagwa. Fabius, a native of Port-au-Prince who runs the Galerie Lakaye Haitian art gallery in […]

Dubtonic Kru’s Jubba on Inspiration, Roots and the Global Reach of Reggae

In a short time, Jamaica’s Dubtonic Kru have made their mark on reggae, topped by winning the Global Battle of the Bands competition in Malaysia in February, taking home the title of best new band in the world. Dubtonic Kru’s Founding members, Deleon “Jubba” White on drums and Strickland “Stone” Stone on bass, are joined […]

The Big Youth Interview

Emerging from Kingston’s Trenchtown in the 1970s, Big Youth became one of the pioneers of reggae – as arguably one of the first deejays and, as he says, the first Rastafarian to do so. In a four-decade career, in which he has worked with everyone from Lee Perry to Bunny Wailer, Big Youth has overseen […]

Chef Nigel Spence on Jerk, Caribbean Cuisine and Beating Bobby Flay

Born in Jamaica, New York-based Chef Nigel Spence has in a short time become one of the leading Caribbean chefs in the United States. From defeating celebrity chef Bobby Flay on the latter’s show, “Throwdown,” to helming a successful restaurant, “Ripe Kitchen and Bar,” which he opened in 2003 in Mount Vernon, New York, Spence […]

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