Caribbean Beat - November/December 2016 Issue 142

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Inside this issue:
• Events around the Caribbean in November & December, from the Bahamas International Film Festival to a celebration of ballet in Cuba
• Word of mouth: the Gimistory festival in Cayman, the Miami Book Fair, soca star Machel Montano's big- screen debut — and paranging till it hurts in Trinidad
• Grenadian designer Ana Granada
• Trinidadian Dexter Webb takes on the New York Marathon
• This month’s reading, music, and film picks
• Grenada born, New York based chef Yvette LaCrette
• The inimitable Calypso Rose of Trinidad & Tobago
• Three artists with Caribbean roots — Jeannette Ehlers, Michelle Eistrup, and Sasha Huber — are making hard-hitting works in Scandinavia
• Leroy Sibbles of the Heptones
• New fiction by Barbara Jenkins
• Six Barbadians talk about their lives and work, what they love about their home island, and their biggest hopes for the future, as Barbados marks 50 years of Independence
• Exploring Brooklyn, New York
• An alphabet of Caribbean beaches, from A to Z!
• Our quick guide to getting the most out of Georgetown, Guyana when time is tight
• Suggestions for some sustainable and very covetable Caribbean-made holiday gifts
• Caribbean “farmer-preneurs” are changing the way we think about agriculture
• A squadron of battle-hardened guerrillas landed on Cuba’s coast sixty years ago, launching the revolution that would change their country forever
• Nassau’s Junkanoo rush

Caribbean Beat Magazine Description:

Published since 1992 by Media & Editorial Projects Ltd (MEP Publishers) as the inflight magazine of BWIA and now the award-winning Caribbean Airlines (and Air Jamaica), Caribbean Beat is the Caribbean’s leading magazine on Caribbean and West Indian arts, culture and society. Beat is a magazine about the real Caribbean — a general-interest, pan-Caribbean publication, produced in the West Indies, by Caribbean people. It gets behind the familiar stereotypes to show how rich Caribbean life really is – its music, art, dance, books, sport, fashion, design, festivals, history, environment, people, lifestyle. This is the region’s most widely-distributed magazine, committed to the highest editorial and production standards.