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In early 1992, passengers boarding BWIA planes across the Caribbean, South and North America, and Europe found something new in their seat-pockets: a magazine by the name of Caribbean Beat, with the watchful face of a Martiniquan filmmaker on the cover.
As those early readers turned the magazine’s pages, they discovered a profile of director Euzhan Palcy, a memoir by Trinidad-born broadcaster Trevor McDonald, and previews of the Caribbean’s yearlong Carnival calendar and the upcoming Carifesta arts festival. They found articles on Tobago Sailing Week and a fashion portfolio by some leading Caribbean designers, alongside a thoughtful essay on the state of West Indies cricket and a business report on trade liberalisation across the region. So the key ingredients were all there at the very beginning: Caribbean arts and culture, travel and current affairs, explored from a Caribbean perspective, with a Caribbean audience in mind.
Twenty-five years later, so many things have changed. Caribbean Beat’s airline partner, for example: we’re now the official inflight magazine of Caribbean Airlines, celebrating its own tenth anniversary in 2017. The masthead design is different. Originally published quarterly, the magazine has appeared bimonthly since late 1995. Nowadays, our editorial and production process is completely digital: it’s been many years since a writer filed copy via fax, or a photographer turned up with a case of film slides. And the Caribbean region has changed too, in countless ways — social, cultural, political.
But some things haven’t changed much at all. Caribbean Beat is still published from the same small office space in Port of Spain — we prefer to think of it as cosy, rather than cramped — and by a tiny editorial team. (Most of the current editorial staff were schoolchildren back in 1992.) Some of the writers, photographers, and illustrators whose work appeared in our first issues a quarter-century ago are still regular contributors, alongside dozens of others in the bank of talent we’ve built up over the years.
And the contents of the magazine, the words and images that fill our pages, still hold to Caribbean’s Beat’s original brief: to explore and portray the Caribbean as it really is, rich in complexities and contradictions, and to celebrate the best and most brilliant of our people and our culture.
Caribbean Beat has never been a typical inflight magazine — and that’s to the credit of Caribbean Airlines (and BWIA before them). Of course, we’ve covered Caribbean travel from the very beginning, including the beaches, resorts, and festivals that the region is best known for. But we know the Caribbean is much more than that: it’s our writers and artists, our scientists and inventors, our sportsmen and -women, philanthropists and thinkers.
The Caribbean is coconut trees and deckchairs, of course, but it’s also skyscrapers and high-tech concert halls, universities and cricket grounds. It’s Jamaica’s lushly forested Cockpit Country and the “blue holes” of Andros in the Bahamas, the stark desertscape of the arid ABC islands and the vast savannahs of Guyana. It’s ruined Mayan pyramids in the jungle of Belize and the Hindu Temple in the Sea in Trinidad.
Like the airline that connects the far-flung peoples of the Caribbean region, with our many languages and ethnicities, Caribbean Beat brings together in its pages the diversity of elements that makes our part of the world so fascinating and bewildering. The energy, creativity, and diversity of the Caribbean, formed in the crucible of our history, make us unique.
Looking back over the past twenty-five years, we realise how aptly those qualities are represented in the 144 covers we’ve published — as you can see for yourself in the following pages. Here are landscapes familiar and unexpected, the colour and spectacle of festivals, flora, and fauna, the work of artists, the gestures of performance, and above all the faces of Caribbean people, famous or not, reflecting our sheer variousness. So we’ve taken the opportunity of this milestone to revisit the stories behind some of those cover images. Why did we choose those images back then, and what’s happened to their subjects in the intervening years?
For this telling panorama, and for Caribbean Beat’s huge (and we think valuable) archive of stories and images, we thank the hundreds of writers, photographers, and artists we’ve worked with over the years. The life of a magazine, behind the scenes, is replete with small thrills, the occasional crisis, and an unending series of deadlines. Generations of editorial, sales, and production staff have known that the magazine is only as good as its next issue — and have worked with dedication and imagination to earn Caribbean Beat its reputation as one of the region’s best-informed, best-written, and best-looking magazines. (For the latter, we owe special thanks to Russell Halfhide, Beat’s designer from 1992 to 2007, who gave the magazine its elegant, approachable style at the very beginning.) We’re grateful for Caribbean Airlines’ consistent support, and their belief in the value of a magazine that looks beyond the stereotypes to the real heart of our people and culture. And, of course, we also owe thanks to you, our readers — for your encouragement, suggestions, and even your criticism, which have helped shape our sense of the magazine’s mission.
We hope you share our pride in reaching this anniversary — which we commemorate, above all, by simply doing the thing we’ve done for the past quarter-century: imagining what’s possible for the next issue, and the ones after that, and then racing after the deadlines.
I still have a soft spot for the very first cover we published, back in January 1992.
Looking back at it now, it’s hard to see why. The tones are grey, the subject is stiff and formal, and there’s a dated feel to the image. The photo is not even by a Caribbean photographer (in 1992 we could not afford to commission a cover image, and had to make do with a studio PR photo).
Since 1992, many of our covers have been more colourful, more appealing, more popular. There have been beaches and boats, beautiful people, landscapes and seascapes, sports heroes, singers, musicians, Carnival people, striking graphics and paintings. I like them all, and feel proud of many of them. Yet that very first cover somehow managed to announce what Caribbean Beat was going to be all about.
Why (that cover asked) is Caribbean filmmaking not taken seriously? Why do we think of the Caribbean as a romantic backdrop for other people’s movies, not for making our own?
We saw Euzhan Palcy as a formidable Caribbean woman who had broken through ethnic and gender stereotypes into a notoriously difficult industry and had produced some powerful work. She was interested in making Caribbean films, not perpetuating Caribbean stereotypes. It was exactly the sort of achievement that Caribbean Beat wanted to discover and celebrate.
So that very first Caribbean Beat cover did not depict a wonderful golden beach, or a sunset, or a luxurious villa. It made the statement that the Caribbean is more than its beaches, more than rum punch and partying, wonderful and liberating though those pleasures are. The Caribbean is not just a romantic backdrop: it has successes and achievements of its own, world-class people in sport and science, music and business, writing and the visual arts. And we wanted our readers to know about them too.
Since then . . .
When Euzhan Palcy appeared on the cover of our Spring 1992 issue, she was already, at the age of thirty-four, recognised as an icon of Caribbean filmmaking. Her 1983 debut, Rue Cases Nègres (adapted from Alfred Zobel’s novel), had earned her a César Award — the French equivalent of an Oscar — and a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, plus a dozen other international awards. The screenplay — which she started while still a film student in Paris — had won the admiration of famed French director François Truffaut, and Aimé Césaire, the celebrated Martiniquan poet and mayor of Fort-de-France, had helped secure the production budget. Rue Cases Nègres was a rare example of a film almost immediately recognised as a classic.
Despite this early success, Palcy’s second project was six years in the making. The subject she’d set her heart on — an adaptation of South African writer André Brink’s anti-apartheid novel A Dry White Season — proved difficult to raise financial support for. Still, Palcy was determined to make a politically hard-hitting film. She even travelled to South Africa, pretending to be a musician, to research conditions in Soweto. It took some hard lobbying and an unshakeable faith in her creative vision, but she succeeded, securing the juggernaut MGM as producer. A Dry White Season made Palcy the first black woman filmmaker to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, and won another slew of awards, including an Oscar nomination for star Marlon Brando.
The film’s success inevitably brought offers, from Hollywood and elsewhere, to work on more “commercial” projects. But Palcy’s sense of political commitment and her resolution to follow her own creative instincts led her, over the years, to turn down many such “opportunities.” “People think, Oh where is she?” Palcy said in a 2015 interview. “She did those movies and she disappeared.” In fact, she’s created a solid body of work that speaks to the range of her concerns, from the culture of her native Martinique to questions of social justice around the world.
The lighthearted Simeon (1992), set in Martinique and France, tells the tale of zouk music and its impact on the world. Palcy has also made a documentary about Césaire — hero of the Négritude movement, and her own mentor — and another about the young men and women of Martinique who fled the island to join the Free French army during the Second World War. The biographical Ruby Bridges (1998), produced by Disney, is a profile in courage from the US Civil Rights Movement: the story of a six-year-old girl who was the first African-American child to desegregate an all-white school in New Orleans. It was followed by The Killing Yard (2001), about the infamous 1971 Attica prison riot and its effect on the struggle for prison rights in the United States.
And Palcy’s magnum opus may be yet to come. For over twenty years, she’s been working on a feature film about Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint L’Ouverture. More than two centuries after the Haitian revolution, Toussaint remains a figure both inspiring and deeply controversial, and Palcy is determined to tell his story her way. No surprise, then, that there’ve been setbacks and numerous delays. “I will never compromise in a way that distorts history or hurts my project,” she says. It’s an ethos her successors in the Caribbean film industry can learn from — as much as from her indelible films.
A Caribbean rocket launch? Yes: since 1971 the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana, has been the major launching site for the European space agency, thanks to its location near the equator — where the earth’s spin gives an extra nudge to departing rockets, allowing them to carry a heavier payload.
When David Rudder graced the cover of Caribbean Beat in 1994, he’d already been a defining voice of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival for eight years. At that pivotal point of his musical career, calypso fans could look back on the bluesy, soulful soca singer from Charlie’s Roots who in 1986 became the first lead singer from a brass band to capture the national calypso monarch title with “The Hammer”, a tribute to the late, great pan arranger Rudolph Charles, and the “Bahia Girl” with her bouncy Baptist beat. In that moment, he had redefined the calypso stage in much the way the Mighty Sparrow did in the 1950s, making it a daring display of rich, lyrical social commentary with an upbeat, jazzed-up, soca beat.
By 1994, Rudder had penned “Rally ’Round the West Indies”, which would become the theme song of the West Indies cricket team. He had songs featured in the Hollywood movie Wild Orchid. And the hits kept coming: “Haiti”, a lyrical lament for the Caribbean nation; “The Engine Room”, a tribute to the percussion side of a steelband; and “Calypso Music”, a joyful history of the art form. By 1995, he had become bolder and more political by offering the album The Lyrics Man, with his distinct brand of calypso rap, including stinging political irony in “Another Day in Paradise”.
By 1998, Rudder had climbed to the pinnacle of success with the album Beloved. Projecting a strong sense of history, Rudder crossed musical boundaries and injected a sense of spirituality into Carnival with “High Mas”, a collision of puns that stretched from the Roman Catholic church’s sacred liturgies to the profane street theatre of Carnival. The celebratory experience of Trinidad culture culminated in the title song “Beloved”, a nostalgic look at the island’s soul-filled sense of community. The following year, he addressed the growing ethnic rift perceived by many people in politics and society with a calypso reminding Carnival revellers of their ethnic roots, represented by the rivers that define their history: “The Ganges and the Nile”.
Rudder’s career took a new direction when he married and moved to Canada in 2002. That experience would manifest itself the following year in “Trini to the Bone”, a celebration of those roots that ensure Rudder’s connection to Carnival and elevate him to the role of calypso ambassador. Distance has not eroded the legacy of his lasting voice: he’s destined to be remembered as a performer who carved an original place in calypso history.
To be the holder of multiple world records — highest individual score in a Test (twice: 375 and 400), in first-class (501), runs in one Test over (28), and the only batsman in first class games to have scored one, two, three, four, and five centuries — is rightfully to be acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen in cricket history.
The impact of Brian Charles Lara’s personal achievements was amplified by the circumstances under which he accumulated them. From 1993, when he scored 277 and captured international attention, to his last West Indian appearance in 2007, he was part of a team on an unhappy trajectory towards cricket ignominy. West Indies supporters were regularly crushed by the unrelenting losses, but Lara gave them — gave the world — something that sparkled beyond the gloom. On the field, he embodied greatness, and for West Indian societies, struggling with rampant mediocrity in leadership and politics that was manifest in weak economies, growing crime, and brazen corruption, he was a reminder of the magnificence that has periodically erupted in our history.
Lara’s feats were celebrated worldwide, and West Indians were able to bask in that reflected glory. Bestowed with high honours — the Trinity Cross (as it was then known in Trinidad and Tobago), the Order of the Caribbean Community, the Order of Australia — he had a remarkable career that was dogged by difficulty, not least of which was the ongoing adversarial relationship between players and the West Indies Cricket Board.
He was named captain of the West Indies team three times, and despite his super status as a batsman, could never claim to be a winning captain like Clive Lloyd or Viv Richards. Instead, he presided over a team with wildly fluctuating fortunes, where victories were few and embarrassments were many, though individual performances were often brilliant. But, in his time, he became one of the first of the breed of wealthy cricketers who brought business savvy to their dealings, and saw endorsements and sponsorships as a natural extension of their cricket incomes. That breed changed international cricket forever.
Heading into the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Trinidadian sprinter Ato Boldon seemed one of the Caribbean’s best hopes for a medal. A year before, he’d won the 100-metre bronze at the World Championships in Gothenburg — at just twenty-one, the youngest athlete ever to medal in the sprint event. And, indeed, he did take home two medals from Atlanta — bronze in both the 100- and 200-metre races — though precious gold eluded him this time.
That wasn’t the case the following year, when Boldon won the 200-metre World Championship gold in Athens, or in 1998, when he took the 100-metre gold at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, setting a still-unbeaten Commonwealth Games record of 9.88 seconds. A serious hamstring injury took him out of the 1999 World Championships, but hopes were high, nonetheless, for further Olympic glory at the 2000 games in Sydney. There, Boldon won the silver in the 100 metres, beaten by US sprinter Maurice Greene (and with Barbadian Obadele Thompson in third place), and the 200-metre bronze.
That was to be his final Olympic medal — after a car accident in 2002, Boldon never again ran under ten seconds in the 100 metres or under twenty seconds in the 200. But his Olympic silver and three bronzes still place him in rare company: only three other male athletes have ever won as many or more Olympic individual event sprint medals. And in his post-competition life Boldon has turned his knowledge of the game and on-camera charisma into a thriving career as a television commentator — most recently, Sports Illustrated named him 2016’s best TV analyst for his coverage of the Rio Olympics.
Every year, a week before masqueraders take to the streets of Trinidad for the reign of the Merry Monarch, thousands pack into Port of Spain’s Hasely Crawford Stadium for the biggest show in Carnival. The show is Machel Monday. The star: Machel Montano, five-time Soca Monarch, eight-time Road March champ, and the indisputable king of soca.
Others have given themselves that title, based on their mainstream success, but none can boast a thirty-five-year career in the art form, practically the same number of albums, or a brand that dominates the Carnival scene — whether or not they are even present.
Montano doesn’t wine that much these days. The lithe young man with a waist like butter has now evolved into a sage forty-two-year-old who posts inspirational quotes daily on Instagram. But he still churns out hits to make people dance, think, celebrate, and debate.
The key to Montano’s longevity and success has been his ability to change, adapt, and push the limits of his genre, while keeping his eye on his oft-repeated mission to make soca popular and take it to the four corners of the earth. He’s pursued this relentlessly, pushing boundaries, taking risks, and setting trends. He was the first to collaborate with Jamaican dancehall singers, opening the door for them to become staples on the soca scene. He was the first to marry house music with soca on 1995’s “Come Dig It”, later opening the floodgates to EDM soca with “AoA”. He sought international collaborations, teaming up with the likes of Pitbull, rappers Lil John and Wyclef Jean, among others, R&B group Boyz II Men, and South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, to name just a few.
He’s taken the music far: to Egypt, India, and South Africa, filming videos, meeting songwriters and producers, and looking for sounds to infuse with his. In 2007, he became the first soca artist to headline his own show at Madison Square Garden in New York, and he’s performed on stages at Radio City Music Hall, Coachella, and South by Southwest.
To maintain his position atop the pack, Montano — now an elder in the music arena with his thirty-five years’ experience — surrounds himself with young talent: songwriters, producers, musicians, and singers who help to keep his sound fresh and trendy.
But nowhere has his evolution been reflected more clearly than in his changing handles. In the early days, his band was known as Pranasonic, named after the Prana Lands area in Siparia, south Trinidad, where Montano grew up. That changed to Xtatik. Then, as he changed the way his band functioned, he assumed the HD persona to reflect his mission to transmit a clearer image of who he is and what he’s about. In 2014, HD made way for Monk Monte. MONK, he said, was an acronym for the Movement of New Knowledge.
With the new name came a new role, that of actor. Montano starred in his own film, Bazodee, a Bollywood-style love story set in T&T. In 2016, Bazodee became the first T&T-made film to be distributed in the US, Canada, and across the Caribbean. He’s expected to follow that up in 2017 with a documentary called Machel Montano: The Journey of a Soca King. That journey is far from over. For the foreseeable future, Montano’s crown seems secure.
André Tanker’s music might have been washed away in the torrent of soca that floods Trinidad at Carnival every year. But instead it’s outlasted almost all the local music produced since he died in 2003, at sixty-one.
Tanker grew up in the middle-class Port of Spain neighbourhood of Woodbrook, home of the Invaders steelband, where he learned to play pan, and the Little Carib Theatre, where Beryl McBurnie was reviving folk dance and Orisha drummer Andrew Beddoe played for Derek Walcott’s Trinidad Theatre Workshop.
But Tanker didn’t appreciate them fully until Afro-Trinidadians reclaimed their heritage in the 1970 Black Power Movement. “It gave you a perspective on who you are, what motivates you, why you like what you like,” Tanker said, looking back in 1997.
That was when he understood he was entitled to draw on his entire birthright: calypso and reggae, jazz, blues, soul, Latin American music, African and Indian. “Children of a one great love,” he sang.
Like many intuitive artists, he wasn’t easy to interview: low-key and laconic, he preferred his message to be conveyed by his music. Likewise, he was more composer than performer, though he played vibraphone and flute, and he sang his songs of love and the oneness of humankind, though his voice wasn’t his greatest asset.
Walcott described Tanker’s work as “disciplined enough to be simple”; it was also rich enough to have enduring appeal. Even now, Trinis catch themselves humming “Wild Indian”, “Basement Party”, “Sayamanda”. His talent lay in blending traditions to make something that was at once fresh and familiar.
Previewing that year’s FIFA World Cup in our May/June 1998 issue, Georgia Popplewell concluded, “For the first time since 1974, Caribbean people will really have a team to root for.” She was referring to Haiti’s national team, which unexpectedly qualified for the 1974 World Cup in West Germany — and to the Reggae Boyz, the Jamaican national team, which made history in 1998 as the first football team from the Anglophone Caribbean ever to go to the sport’s most prestigious tournament.
“For a small country,” wrote Popplewell, “a national sports team is . . . a repository of civic dreams and aspirations.” Such was the case for Jamaica — even if the Reggae Boyz didn’t advance out of the finals’ first round.
Five years later, it was Trinidad and Tobago’s chance. Beating Bahrain in a qualifying match, the Soca Warriors booked their tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany — and T&T became the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup, a victory in its own right.
The Caribbean adores its beauty queens. For a small country, any citizen who wins positive international acclaim is a hero. And our various Misses Universe and World over the decades have also proven to be a talented, enterprising bunch, going on to careers in politics, the arts, and philanthropy. Grenadian Jennifer Hosten (Miss World 1970) later became a diplomat. Jamaican Cindy Breakspeare (Miss World 1976) may be best remembered as Bob Marley’s muse and the mother of his son Damien, but she’s also a successful recording artist in her own right. Her countrywoman Lisa Hanna (Miss World 1993) served as a Cabinet minister. And among the Trinidadians, Janelle Commissiong (Miss Universe 1977) and Giselle Laronde (Miss World 1986) both become successful businesswomen.
No wonder, then, that T&T’s Wendy Fitzwilliam, Miss Universe 1998, managed to appear twice on Caribbean Beat’s cover, in July/August 1998 and again less than a year later, resplendent in Carnival costume. Her “reign” was just the beginning: a law student when she won her title, she was later admitted to the bar in her home country, honoured for her activism in HIV/AIDS awareness, recognised as a Red Cross Ambassador for Youth, published a well-received memoir, and now hosts the reality TV series Caribbean’s Top Model — all while maintaining her elegant but down-to-earth presence on T&T’s social scene.
The 1990s were arguably a high point for Barbadian music. The nightclub scene in Barbados was alive and well, and artistes were not afraid to experiment. This decade saw the rise of soca stars like Hinds alongside Rupee and Edwin Yearwood (who’d appeared on Caribbean Beat’s cover two years before); jazz/reggae saxophonist Arturo Tappin; calypso powerhouse Anthony “Mighty Gabby” Carter; and local band Spice and Company, just to start. Creativity seemed to be at an all-time high and the Barbadian sound was one of the leading influences in Caribbean music.
Soca dominated the landscape and infiltrated foreign markets, allowing artistes to share their sound with global audiences. Rupee’s “Tempted to Touch” peaked at number 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and at 44 on the UK singles chart, and featured in the soundtrack of the Hollywood movie After the Sunset.
Reggae, hip-hop, jazz, electronic dance music (EDM), and R&B also inspired the style of music performed and created by Barbadian musicians. By the mid 2000s, Barbados was producing international artistes from hybrid genres — Rihanna above all, but also Livvi Franc, Hal Linton, Shontelle, Teff Hinkson, Cover Drive, 2 Mile Hill, and others.
Barbadians are proud of their successful musicians, and have created the glamorous Barbados Music Awards and other festivals to highlight, showcase, and honour the wealth of musical talent within the country. Relevance and longevity are always concerns in the industry, and often it’s a battle of legend versus newcomer.
Mahalia Cummins, lead singer of the band 2 Mile Hill, says the music scene is once again resurging. “Where support was previously lacking, young and upcoming artistes are working with the more seasoned performers,” she explains. Hinds, our cover subject eighteen years ago, is one such artiste, and she’s always working behind the scenes collaborating with or mentoring younger talent. Most recently, she’s signed up to mentor the young people of the UNICEF Caribbean Junior Monarch Competition, which will launch officially in August this year.
Soca is still a main staple in Barbadian music, meanwhile — and with names like Damian Marvay, Nikita, King Bubba, and Joaquin in the current mix, it’s not going to wind up anytime soon. Wining down — that’s a different matter.
Boats were a favourite cover subject in the magazine’s earlier years — no fewer than nine in all, ranging from fancy yachts to humble pirogues. How do other categories compare in the rankings? Three covers have depicted botanical subjects, and three have featured children playing on beaches. Seashells? Two. Surf-, windsurf-, and kite-boards? Three. Rivers? Five. At the other end of the scale: sportsmen and -women? Eighteen. Musicians? Twenty-four. We aren’t called Caribbean Beat for nothing.
Every photographer on assignment for a magazine wants the cover. It’s prime space and usually pays the best, but a portrait session can go off the rails if there isn’t a good, balanced range of images for the publication’s designer to work with. That means putting effort into making every setup as compelling as possible, while thinking about how they play together to offer their own visual narrative in the final piece.
Ideally, the photographs complement the words in a profile. Sometimes they tell a parallel but unrelated story. At worst, they exist in a different world from the words. The cover photo has work to do. It is a preview of the issue’s tone and content, a sales pitch to the potential reader, and an invitation to read the story it references.
My first preference with a subject is almost always an environmental portrait. If it can happen effectively in the subject’s space, they begin with the advantage of home ground in the encounter. The Mungal Patasar session happened at his home. The musician lives in the countryside, and I imagined great possibilities. I photographed him in his living room with his family and, with time running out, in a nearby field seated with his sitar under a tree.
But it was the portrait taken just a few inches from the front door of his home — a heavy, weathered slab of wood with just enough texture and muted tone to complement the musician and his well-used instrument — that ended up leading the issue.
After some broad direction about posture, Mungal began to play. I wish I could say I was an appreciative audience, but I had one roll of 120 Fujichrome 50 allocated for this shot, twelve frames on the Hasselblad I was using, and I needed to bracket exposures.
Mungal just played on, doing his work while I did mine, a portrait more passionately given than taken.
Our twenty-odd Carnival cover subjects have included sequined pretty mas, calypso and soca stars, traditional characters like the blue devil and Dame Lorraine. Mas is one of the hardest subjects to capture in a single image: it’s chaotic, it’s unpredictable, it moves too fast.
Over two and a half decades, we’ve profiled dozens of our region’s best writers — novelists, poets, dramatists, biographers. We’ve run in-depth features on Nobel laureates and talented up-and-comers. Our first story on Jamaican Marlon James ran in 2006, nine years before he won the Man Booker Prize; we profiled Trinidadian Vahni Capildeo, winner of the 2016 Forward Prize, back in 2004. But in twenty-five years, only one writer has appeared on the cover: Grenada-based Oonya Kempadoo, profiled in March/April 2002.
Kempadoo had made an auspicious debut three years before, with her novel Buxton Spice, which set off a fabled “bidding war” among London publishers. Tide Running soon followed. And her third novel, All Decent Animals, was imminent, our 2002 article predicted. Except it was another decade before it actually appeared. Our readers got a preview in our May/June 2013 issue, when we published an excerpt from the long-awaited work.
It’s one of the permanently contentious issues of public debate in the Caribbean: the state of West Indies cricket. Over the lifetime of Caribbean Beat, fans of the game have argued and agonised over the regional team, its players and administrators, and wondered if the West Indies will ever return to the form of its glory days in the 1970s and 80s.
In our May/June 2003 issue, we took a stab at predicting what a future version of the West Indies team might look like. After talking to experts at the West Indies Cricket Board and regional cricket associations, we compiled our “next 11”: a lineup of exceptional young cricketers under seventeen years old, who seemed to have the talent and attitude.
So how solid were our predictions? Of our eleven youngsters, one — Marcus Julien of Grenada — switched sports, to football. Most of the others went on to play for their national under-17 or under-19 teams. A handful — including Kavesh Kantasingh of T&T and Javal Hodge of St Kitts and Nevis — have played for their national senior teams. And two have represented the West Indies at the highest levels of the game.
Trinidadian batsman Jason Mohammed made his first-class debut for T&T against Jamaica in 2006. And in December 2011 he played his first One Day International match for the West Indies, versus India. He subsequently represented both T&T Red Steel and the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the Caribbean Premiere League T20 regional tournament. Meanwhile, Barbadian batsman Omar Phillips found himself batting for the West Indies in a 2009 Test match against Bangladesh. A contract strike by several members of the regional senior team saw seven young players selected for that Test series. Phillips came just six runs short of a debut century.
It’s one of the most iconic Carnival photos of all time, perfect for the cover of our issue profiling thirteen designers from the golden age of mas: Peter Minshall’s 1974 costume From the Land of the Hummingbird, portrayed by Sherry-Ann Guy and captured on film by the late Roy Boyke.
The most celebrated and controversial masman in T&T Carnival from the time of his debut in the mid 1970s, Minshall himself had appeared on the cover of our third issue, back in 1992. On two other occasions, photos of his creations made striking cover subjects: our September/October 1998 issue featured a costume from his band Red, and a bird-garbed masquerader from Picoplat appeared on our January/February 2003 issue. Caribbean Beat’s most extensive take on Minshall’s career came in our May/June 2006 issue, when a profile by editor Nicholas Laughlin was accompanied by personal accounts from some of the artist’s closest colleagues and observers.
In an irony of timing, 2006 also turned out to be the final year in which Minshall produced a full-scale Carnival band. But a handful of smaller subsequent mas collaborations have continued to astound and provoke his audience. Witness the drag-ballerina Dying Swan costume he designed for the Carnival Kings and Queens competition in 2016, which set off a firestorm of debate unlike anything since — well, since the last Minshall controversy. Genius remains restless.
In perhaps the most ambitious feature Caribbean Beat had yet published, we polled a panel of music experts and came up with a list of 250 great songs from the Caribbean — most of them from the pre-digital era, as suggested by the vinyl record on the cover.
At midnight on 1 January, 2007, BWIA — Caribbean Beat’s airline partner for fifteen years — ceased to exist, and Caribbean Airlines was born, welcomed by a cover featuring the colourful hummingbird from the new airline’s logo.
“It always seemed glamorous,” said Rihanna early on in her career, “but it is real work.” Talent and luck have something to do with it, too. A nineteen-year-old relative newcomer when she appeared on the cover of the September/October 2007 Caribbean Beat, the Barbadian singer-songwriter was then two years into a stellar international career. A decade later, she’s indisputably the top selling digital artist of all time, winner of eight Grammy Awards, among numerous other honours — also a fashion icon, movie star, named one of 2012’s “100 most influential people in the world” by Time magazine, and an astute businessperson: in 2015 she created her own label, Westbury Road Entertainment.
“Whenever I get the chance, I fly home to Barbados,” Rihanna said, interviewed in Caribbean Beat by writer Essiba Small. And her contributions to her home island go beyond the reflected blaze of her pop-star celebrity. In 2012, Rihanna made headlines when she donated US$1.75 million to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados, in memory of her late grandmother — the namesake of Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, which she founded to “improve the quality of life for communities globally in the areas of health, education, arts, and culture.” An unapologetic force to reckon with, the first-ever recipient of the American Music Awards Icon Award is now working on her ninth studio album.
Arguably the Caribbean’s most famous icon, Bob Marley was the cover subject of our May/June 2001 issue, on the twentieth anniversary of his death. His legacy lives on through his music, familiar to fans around the world — and though his children and grandchildren, many of whom inherited Marley’s musical genes. Like first-born son David “Ziggy” Marley, who appeared on the cover of our July/August 2010 issue.
Last year, Ziggy released his fifteenth album. There are also rumours of new albums in the works from both Damien and his brother Julian. Meanwhile, the rest of the family is involved in various Marley-branded projects, from fashion to cooking, graphic design to electronics, and of course running the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston. There’s a line of Marley coffee — including beans grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica and the highlands of Ethiopia — and eco-friendly footwear. Whatever else you can say of the Marley family, they understand the value of their family legacy.
Back in 2010, three of the directors I highlighted had just made their debut features: Maria Govan (Rain) and Kareem Mortimer (Children of God) of the Bahamas, and Jamaica’s Storm Saulter (Better Mus’ Come). As I write this, Govan’s second effort, Play the Devil, is winning plaudits on the festival circuit; Mortimer’s third film, Cargo, is about to premiere; and Saulter is in post-production on his follow up, Sprinter.
Other talented filmmakers have joined in the act. The blessings of the digital revolution notwithstanding, making films in the Caribbean remains a challenging business. The biggest challenge, however, still is winning over hearts and minds to the idea that there’s more to cinema than the Hollywood formula.
Caribbean Beat’s special “Green Issue” featured a rare frog species on its cover — the only time an amphibian has served as cover model. Fauna cover subjects have also included one non-human mammal and four birds — can you spot them all?
Heading into the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the eyes of the world were on Usain Bolt — understandably, considering how the Jamaican sprinter had overwhelmed the competition in Beijing four years earlier. But astute observers — like writer Kwame Laurence, who wrote the cover story on Caribbean Olympic prospects for our July/August 2012 issue — had their eyes on other contenders as well. Like Grenada’s Kirani James, then just nineteen years old, who a year before at the World Championships had become the youngest ever 400-metre gold medalist.
“He has all the expectations of Grenada resting on his shoulders,” wrote Laurence. And on 6 August, 2012, those expectations were fulfilled: thanks to James, Grenada’s first-ever Olympic medal was gold. Five of the eight lanes in the final were occupied by Caribbean athletes, plus all three spots on the medal podium — with Luguelín Santos of the Dominican Republic in second place and Lalonde Gordon of T&T in third.
James’s welcome back to Grenada — and his home village of Gouyave — was euphoric. And Grenadian readers of Caribbean Beat were delighted the magazine had the foresight to put him on the cover. How did we make the call? “I think it was a mixture of reasons,” remembers Judy Raymond, then editor. “We wanted to use a photo of someone promising but not too familiar, and from somewhere that didn’t already have a great Olympic track record. And we had a good pic of him.” The confidence of writer Kwame Laurence — one of the Caribbean’s most experienced sports journalists, specialising in track and field, and a longtime contributor to the magazine — about James’s promise also helped.
Four years later, at the 2016 Rio Olympics, James was a favourite to repeat his win. Only one athlete — American Michael Johnson — had ever managed to defend an Olympic gold in the men’s 400 metres, in 1996 and 2000. But the achievement just barely escaped the Grenadian champion. James came second, to Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa — but still brought home Grenada’s second-ever Olympic medal, and singlehandedly gave his country the highest number of Olympic medals, per capita, at two successive Summer Games.
Just seventeen when she appeared on the cover of the March/April 2013 Caribbean Beat, slicing through a wave, Chelsea Tuach already had four years’ experience as a national and regional surfing champion. Starting at the age of ten, Tuach is the youngest surfer to represent Barbados in the watersport, and the most successful in competition. Ranked fourth in the world in 2015, she’s twice won the World Surf League (WSL) North American Junior Pro Championships.
Tuach has flown the Barbadian flag in Australia, Brazil, El Salvador, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, France, and Japan. “I set goals, seize opportunities, and with a lot of faith and support, I’ve managed to do it,” she says. She’s had moments of self-doubt and at times intimidation, going up against older competitors. But nothing has stopped her burning spirit of determination, especially backed with resounding support from her island.
The old adage “you can’t judge a book by its cover” doesn’t apply to magazines. When “From island to end zone”, profiling NFL football players with Caribbean roots, hit the Internet, Caribbean Beat’s website got thousands of hits in the first hour — enough to crash the site temporarily. The Washington Redskins and its star wide receiver Pierre Garçon had retweeted the story, and it was read by legions of fans. Garçon spoke about his Haitian roots and his continuous ties with the Caribbean island — and his friendly smile lit up the cover photo.
Garçon hasn’t skipped a beat since his Caribbean Beat profile. He finished his five-year, US$45-million contract with the Redskins and became a free agent. At thirty-one, he showed no signs of slowing down. He’s been a consistent play-maker for the Redskins throughout all the team’s travails with its numerous quarterbacks. Then when Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti last year, Garçon’s team sent him to Haiti as an extension of his prolific community service work, and the NFL chose him to represent his team for the Walter Payton Man of the Year award, which pays homage to NFL players who engage in community service.
Meanwhile, Jamaica-born Patrick Chung, also featured in the story, left the Philadelphia Eagles and returned to the New England Patriots to play for Bill Belichick, considered one of the most difficult and challenging coaches in the NFL. Chung soared, figuratively and literally, with high-flying tackles at the free safety position, which stunned opponents’ offenses. Belichick deemed Chung a crucial, versatile player who excelled at any defensive position where he was slotted.
And Jamaica-born Trevardo Williams, a fourth-round draft pick and rookie for the Texas Texans, suffered an injury that prevented him from playing most of the season with the Texans. He made the rounds of the NFL, and landed eventually in the Canadian Football League (CFL), playing for the Toronto Argonauts.
What’s the exemplary colour of the Caribbean? Many would say blue, in all its hues: the colour of the sea that surrounds our islands. There’s something about that tropical marine blue that lifts the spirits: no wonder blue waters have appeared on no fewer than seventeen of our covers over the years.
This freshly painted chattel door caught my eye as I was driving past, and I just had to stop and capture it. We have a history of finely crafted chattel houses in Barbados. More recently we started using bright colours rather than the traditional brown of past times — orange and green being a popular colour combination in Bim.
Imagine my delight when my chattel house door ended up on the cover! On receiving the magazine, I kept it for a few days, then decided the people who live in the house should have it. Having never met them, I drove over and knocked. Lisa came to the door. And her mum. And her son. They were all delighted. I had already planned to “pay it forward,” so gave Lisa a percentage of what I earned for this photograph. Lisa emotionally told me that the money had come at just the right time. She hugged me. Gran hugged me, and Son told me I had to hug him too. So, hugs all round, all of us crying and laughing. I have now met three more wonderful Bajans in my island. Feels good. Feels right.
A Cuban street musician — performing a trumpet solo, snazzily attired in brown suit and two-tone shoes — was the cover subject of our November/December 2015 issue. It was a favourite of Dionne Ligoure, head of corporate communications for Caribbean Airlines, and a longtime reader of the magazine. In fact, Ligoure keeps a copy of this cover on display in her office at the airline’s headquarters.
And what does Caribbean Beat mean to her, and the airline? I’m tremendously proud of the magazine,” Ligoure says. “For the past twenty-five years, Caribbean Beat has featured, documented, archived, and highlighted the accomplishments of Caribbean icons throughout the region and our diaspora.
Sometimes it’s tough deciding among the options for a cover subject — and sometimes there’s no contest. That was exactly the case with our July/August issue last year, timed with the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “No contest” also describes how some of the world’s best sprinters must have felt, knowing they were up against Usain Bolt in the men’s 100- and 200-metre events.
Born in rural Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, in 1986, Bolt is the fastest human being on record, and considered the greatest sprinter of all time. Where track and field are concerned, the past decade has indisputably been the Age of Bolt, and it’s hard to imagine another athlete so dominating the sport in the near future.
Few people could have predicted this unprecedented victory streak back in 2004, when Bolt — then just shy of his eighteenth birthday — appeared in the pages of Caribbean Beat for the first time. But it was already clear he was a major talent — writer Kwame Laurence called him one of the fastest men alive, previewing the Caribbean’s medal hopefuls in the Athens Olympics. Slowed by a leg injury, Bolt didn’t make it past the first round of heats. But he was just getting started.
Heading to the 2012 London Olympics, Bolt was a clear favourite — both with the crowds, who loved his high-spirited antics, and to repeat his wins. He didn’t disappoint. For Jamaicans, the timing of the achievement was especially significant, coming in the very month when the nation celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of Independence. “I’m now a legend,” Bolt remarked, matter-of-factly.
But the truly legendary feat was in Rio in August 2016. “This will surely be his last Olympic Games,” wrote Kwame Laurence, “and he’ll do everything in his power to ensure a golden farewell.” No athlete had ever won the 100-metre event at three consecutive Olympics, nor the 200 metres. To win them both — a “triple double” — would once have been unthinkable. But not, as it turned out, for Usain Bolt.
Our oldest cover subject in twenty-five years? That would be Linda McArtha Sandy-Lewis, the indefatigable Calypso Rose, who was seventy-six when she fronted our November/December issue last year. And in this case, age isn’t just a number, or a bit of trivia — it’s evidence of the longevity of one of the most extraordinary careers in Caribbean music, dating back to the 1950s. When the Tobago-born calypsonian started her career as a teenager, calypso was still a macho genre. That she ascended to the heights of the artform is tribute to her skill as a singer and composer, her warmth and sincerity on stage, her wicked lyrics and playful performance style. Audiences adored her, but it wasn’t until 1978 — more than two decades into her career — that she won calypso’s highest honour. They had to literally rename the Calypso King title for her sake.
The same energy, talent, and dedication that earned her that groundbreaking accolade are also responsible for the remarkable resurgence in popularity Rose has experienced in her eighth decade. Her latest album, Far from Home, was a surprise hit of summer 2016 in Europe, winning her thousands of new fans and a growing number of international awards, as she keeps to a touring schedule many younger musicians would envy. And her tune “Leave Me Alone” — featuring a guest appearance by Machel Montano — was yet another hit on the road at Carnival 2017.
Caribbean Beat has always been free for Caribbean Airlines (and, before that, BWIA) passengers to take home — and many of you have done just that, collecting each issue as it appears on planes. A full set of all 144 magazines published to date takes up about two and a half feet of shelf space (and weighs almost a hundred pounds — yes, we checked). Readers hold on to them because many of the articles, profiles, and interviews are worth revisiting, even decades later. Researchers make reference to the magazine and teachers use it in classrooms.
But if you haven’t been a Caribbean Beat reader and collector since 1992 — or if you don’t have two and a half feet of shelf space to spare — you can still access our rather vast archive via our website. The magazine first went online circa 1998. Back then, in the days when no one knew as yet what the World Wide Web would turn out to be, only a handful of articles from each issue were posted online, and some HTML hand-coding was involved. It’s a lot simpler these days. Not only can you read the full contents of each new issue online, you can also search all the way back to issue number one in a matter of seconds — if, say, your heart is set on finding every single reference to Machel Montano we’ve ever published.
Now, the archive is a work in progress — we’re still digitising some of the earlier issues. Even so, there are close to 2,500 articles already available, which makes the Caribbean Beat website one of the most extensive free online archives of Caribbean culture. Even for our editorial staff, exploring this archive is always an adventure of discovery and re-discovery.
Find it all at caribbean-beat.com.


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I joined as member in March, 2016 and I had access to the files which I wished.
I did not have time to use them because of important problems with my family, but this year, for this Christmas, I wanted use your lovely fans and make it for my mom’.
On the pdf I downloaded last year, there are 3 links to found the templates.
But, when I click, I go here : https://design.cricut.com/#/landing and I don’t understand WHERE I must go for downloading the templates.
I have the video. I have the pdf… But I have no template.
I hope that you can help me and thank you a lot in advance.
Hello Polly! I’m sorry you didn’t hear from us on Friday, the office was closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. This fan project is a bit different than the rest since it was commissioned by Cricut– there are no files to download, as the project lives only in Design Space. If you click on the links in the post (Mini Fan, Foldable Fan, Large Fan), it will take you to the project where you press the green button labeled “MAKE IT”. We do have another fan available on our site with an SVG cut file for our members to download if you prefer: https://liagriffith.com/blush-watercolor-wedding-day-paper-goods/.
Hello, I love your paper fans! By any chance have you created a tutorial video that does not require a membership?
No unfortunately these fans were commissioned by Creativebug. Creativebug usually offer a free trial membership, have you looked into that?
Is there a tutorial for making these fans or are they just to be purchased?
At the bottom of the post, above the photos, are the links for the templates in Design Space 🙂 Because this project was done in partnership with Creative Bug, they host the video tutorial on their website. Unfortunately you can only view the tutorial if you are a Creative Bug member 🙁 Sometimes they have free trials, so I would look into that if you are interested in making this craft in the near future! If you are willing to wait a bit, I’m planning on doing another version of these fans on my website that will be available for all members. Stay tuned for that!
I really like the papers that are pictured here. You said you get all of your paper at Paper-Papers.com, but they don’t have patterned paper. Can you tell me where you got the paper used for these fans? Thanks.
This is what Cricut said to us. “Sorry about the delay, it should be fixed by the end of next week”. Fingers crossed.
Sorry what a hassle! It makes no sense unfortunately once we hand over the files to Cricut we have no control over it. So if their customer service team say they don’t know why they aren’t available isn’t there anything they can do about it? Frustrating!
Thank you so much for assisting in making these available on Cricut Design Space. I’m going to make these fans for my wedding this fall! I love the patterns and I remember seeing somewhere that you would post the patterns to print them out. I’m unable to find them on Cricut Design Space or Creativebug. Do you know where I can find them?
These should be in the Creativebug project page. I will pop over and take a look to see if I can locate them.
All three links are working!!!!!
I finally figured out how to search for it in the Cricut Design Space, and your fans are no longer showing in the search.
I have a Cricut Explore, but the files will not open from your links. Down in the right corner it says 0.00 and make now, but neither option can be selected. It is not my pc because other projects can be selected.
I don’t know how to do a search in the design space to see if they could be opened via a different link.
Cricut just told me they fixed it. Fingers crossed! Thanks for letting me know!
The link is on the Cricut Design Space. You will have to have an Explore but if you do it is a free file.
Did they take these off the Cricut design space? I was getting ready to make them for my wedding but I can’t seem to open the project in design space.
I hope not! Have you contacted their customer service team? Once I submit my designs it is out of my hands.
Hi, you can make them any size you want. For mine I cut two fans on 8 1/2 x 11″paper and put the two papers together for a larger fan.
Could you still make these with a silhouette machine?
The pattern is only available on Cricut Design Space so unfortunately no.
Hi, I love the fans so much but I don’t have a circut machine. What will be the measurements if I was going to do everything by hand?
Where do you get the paper from? The only paper I have been able to find has bright white on the backside. Please advise….I’d love to make these!
Hi Hannah, I print them on one side and leave the other side blank, sometimes I print a pattern on a colored paper. You could print on both sides. I get all my paper from Paper-Papers.com. For the full tutorial Creativebug is offering a 14-day trial membership.
hello!! I’d like to know if it is posible to buy them aldready done. Thanks for your reply.
Are these no longer available on design space? I cant find them….
They are. Hard to find though. I was just asking Creativebug what happened to the link. If you into upload project and type in search liagriffith (one word) they come up.
Can these be made with the Cricut E2?
What makes these so easy is the scoring tool on the new Explore. You might be able to cut them on the E2 but would have to score by hand. The files in available in Design Space.
You find the template like this: (In Cricut Design Space, select create a new project and search for “Lia Griffith” when inserting your image to find the artwork). The files should be free, but if they are not, give it a day or two and it will be.
These paper fans are so “couture” of all paper crafts! Love love love!
I enjoy making paper art. Those fans are adorable.

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Hi! I’m Yajayra Alarcon, welcome to my day 4 blog! Today’s 90s hip-hop artist is Ice Cube. Ice Cube was born in South Central Los Angeles in 1969. He got fame from the music group N.W.A, which was a very hard hitting hip-hop group. He started working on his first raps in high school. He started a group with two others in the mid 1980s. The group of three got the attention of an up and coming rapper, Andre Romelle Young, better known as Dr. Dre. They then teamed up with with three other rappers, DJ Yella, Eazy-E and MC Ren and formed N.W.A. The group had a very good run, selling millions of records, and having a big impact in the history of hip-hop.
He then left the group in 1989 because he wasn’t getting paid enough, and went off on his own in 1989. He has made a very good name for himself as an actor and an artist.
After living a life seeing people selling drugs, his friends being killed, and going to jail he became determined to make a better life for himself.
A year after he left N.W.A he released his first album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. He wasn’t just a rapper, but was also a producer and stepped out of hip-hop, and also worked with artists like David Bowie and Trent Reznor. Almost right after leaving the music group he launched his movie career. He starred in the movie “hood film, Boyz n the Hood” in 1992. He played big roles in many other films including Friday in 1995, Three Kings in 1999, and Barbershop in 2002. He now has 10 studio albums that have gone very far in the hip-hop world.
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Internet banking and other modes of e-banking have been a blessing for banking as far asspeed, convenience and cost of delivery is concerned, but alongside it has brought manyrisks. It has also brought about a new orientation to risks and even new forms of risks.Technology plays a significant part both as source and tool for control of risks. Because ofrapid changes in information technology, there is no finality either in the types of risks ortheir control measures. E- Banking may soon convert from a complementary to the mainprovider of financial services and products. Consequently, a possible failure of a bankentering this sector can have various consequences on its future position in the market. Thebank's strategy should be readjusted so that it meets the new challenges with risk balance. The delivery channels include direct dialup connections, private networks, public networks, etc. with the popularity of computers, easy access to Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). Internet is increasingly used by banks as a channel for receiving instructions and delivering their products and services to their customers. This form of banking is generally referred to as Internet Banking, although the range of products and services offered by different banks vary widely both in their content and sophistication.
The merely approach to thicken our ideas was to compensate costly advertising agency or ask media to write or publish and promote about our products and services in the market. But now organizations have a remarkable prospect to publish or promote their products or services through viral marketing which is a part of content that is so brilliantly used to connect the audience to such a degree, that it spreads like a virus through the ranks of people all over the world. As a result, the word of mouth about the campaign spreads speedy and takes benefit of existing social networks by encouraging customers and they are also keen to share product information with their friends, family, and colleagues. As a strategy, it influences people to surpass on marketing messages to others, and create a prospective for growth and have become one of the most effective channels for marketing and advertising. Viral marketing campaigns are an astonishing manner to generate brand awareness. It reaches to a huge number of people promptly. It has the aptitude to carry out a low-cost marketing campaign, and obtain response from a large number of interested people. Word-of-mouth is solely most empowering tool available to marketers today. The common perception of viral marketing about being economical, uncomplicated, and extraordinarily effective makes it an ideal replacement of traditional advertising.
The aim of this study was to analyze the emergence of wholesale center City of Cacoal. The issue concerns the concentration of attacked that arose in Avenida Inderval Joseph Brazil, better known as the Street of attacked. This concentration has awakened the interest in discovering the origin and expansion of the shopping center . To that end, we carried out a study of various attacked, having as a method the model of case study. It was used as an instrument of collection of secondary data the bibliographic survey, as well as the historical aspects, the guided interview. To understand the phenomenon used to search exploratory and descriptive. This was carried out interviews with the entrepreneurs of wholesale center, having as random sample six attacked the branch of Haberdasher's shop. The first step was to identify the expansion of this center, and check the hypothesis of characterization of cluster. The results of this work show that the expansion is the principle due to the center being located near the Interstate road of the City, after other companies have emerged due to the network of relationships and social bonds, professionals and family members, who have contributed in various ways to ensure that these companies should be multiplied, but cannot be considered as a cluster , as response of interviews applied to entrepreneurs and analyzing the bibliografic identification of cluster described by the authors. We observed that the information gathered from the questionnaires, we have that the practice of attacked today, resembles the definition of marketing warfare , once that behave with tactics of guerrilla warfare and in case the companies that have some family ties act as a form of attack in flank.
The concept of Ambush Marketing is not new as far as Indian market and marketers are concerned but this is an unpopular concept among the customers. This paper aims at giving an insight on Ambush marketing, its various types, how it works as a marketing tool etc. Ambush marketing is also known as parasitic marketing. Ambush Marketing is a situation in which a company tries to advertise its products in connection with a big public event, without paying any money, and generally they are not the official sponsor. This concept includes full marketing campaigns which are designed to run during an event in order to capitalise on the fact that an event is taking place. The concept of ambush marketing has gained most of the attention mainly in sporting events which attract people both locally and internationally. In Parasitic Marketing, Companies mostly connect themselves with a particular team or athlete rather than taking on a full sponsorship package. Ambush marketing practice is ethically questionable because the companies mainly aim at using the goodwill of other companies (mostly competitors) to gain the exposure in the target market.
Leadership has become a key component of an organization, management and administration of educational organizations and systems, and this development is reflected in both academic and educational policy statements throughout world over. Governments are investing substantial sums in leadership development because they believe that it will produce better leaders and more effective schools? system. Individuals are also contributing their own professional development because they think that it will enhance their career prospects and make them better leaders. Without leadership, things will be very difficult and we would have not been here today. Technical and vocational education is one of the organizations that have been enjoying leadership of different types. The paper is a library based research work; the data were collected using textbooks, journal articles and internet search. But yet, the information is authentic and reliable and can serve the purpose for which it intends to serve. The paper is design to look into the impact of leadership on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as the topic implies. It will also touch models of educational leadership, factors for assessing educational leaders as well as the principles of sustainable leadership.
The world of higher education has obviously entered into a period of many changes. Many foreign universities have very strong global brand and many others are trying to build. Branding in higher education is a more complex issue as it is different from the product or services which a consumer generally consumes. Institutes should try to understand the branding principles, tool and techniques of higher education. Some Indian institutions or universities are also trying to attract students, faculty and other stakeholders from all over the world. These institutes should use experience and strategies of some foreign universities which are already very well reputed, but are trying to build their global brand stronger.
HRD climate is the one to generate very performance oriented culture where everyone will take sole accountabilities of their activities. In this context, recently most of the industries find difficulties in identifying and assessing the factors for the job satisfaction of their employees which have the highest degree of contribution for the success of the policies and organisational objectives. Hence, this paper is based on a survey conducted on a coal, steel and cement exploring public and private company in Odisha has provided an opportunity for an in-depth exploration of the perceptions and attitudes of the employees regarding the potential HRD climate variables which have relations with job satisfaction of employees. In this context, for this study, we have taken 126 responses from different demographic profile to make this study succession one. Though there are different statistical tool have been used to carry out the research works, but, we have used mean, standard deviation correlation, and regression analysis to prove significant relations for testing hypothesis. The questionnaires relating to the HRD Climate (Rao and Abraham, 1985) and Job Satisfaction (Daftuar,C.N,1997) was administered to the sample population and the findings indicate that HRD Climate has a significant relationship exists with the Job Satisfaction. This indicates that there are considerable room for improvement in these areas.
Maharashtra has developed a solid base of industrial infrastructure, strong Human Resources, and sustaining and divers industrial base. This was possible because Maharashtra pioneered several policy initiatives, since inception, in diverse fields. The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is the state government's agent for acquisition and disposal of land; providing infrastructure facilities and providing services for entrepreneurs. The corporation also helps industrial units with assured power supply, maintenance of industrial area and drainage schemes and other services such as banks. The main objective of the DIC programme is to develop and promote small, tiny, cottage sector industries in the country and to generate employment opportunities especially among the rural and backward areas of the countries. DICs play an important role in providing assistance to entrepreneurs at the pre-investment and post investment stages, in setting up industries, particularly in rural and backward areas of the country.
The purpose of this study was to understand micro finance in India The main objective of this research paper is analysis to the Microfinance in India as a powerful tool for poverty alleviation. There are many societies, companies, trusts and bodies corporate and such other institutions which are engaged in providing micro finance services to the poor households as a complementary to the banking system. There are two broad approaches that characterize the microfinance sector in India—SHG–bank linkage (SBL) and Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). SBL is a larger model than MFIs in India, contrary to the global practices of other MFIs. Microfinance total loan growth is estimated to have risen by around 30% year on year in fiscal 2012/13 (April-March). The Central Government have felt that since these institutions lack a formal statutory framework for providing such micro finance services, The Micro Finance Institutions (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2012 has passed on 11 February, 2014to provide a statutory framework for the promotion, development, regulation and orderly growth of such Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) and thereby facilitate financial inclusion.
GOODS AND SERVICE TAX – Panacea For Indirect Tax System In India.
The concept of ethics is studied by several authors, each with a load of their intrinsic values ? ? and principles. This happens because ethics seems to be a personal characteristic, unique to each human being. There are numerous ways of seeing an attitude as ethical or not, depending on how these features has been absorbed by the individual. Ethical values ? ? are also present in the professional classes with the Professional Codes of Ethics. This article aims to explain the concepts of ethics in literature and through field research, confronting them with the concepts presented by students of Business Administration and Law of the Federal University of Rondônia, Cacoal campus, as well as list which professionals considered by these students as being the most ethical and least during the exercise of their profession.
Motivating employees is vital to any business. A motivated workforce means a highly productive staff, all of which will help you achieve your business goals. And this should be a main objective in your plan. Before building a motivational strategy, the first step you need to take is to understand what motivates your employees. What drives them to their peak performance will better help you develop programs that both motivate and retain the best employees for your business.
Now-a-days, the guest houses in Jodhpur use a high-priced and unique style different from the one in the past. It not only offers accommodation services but also has a variety of other services to serve. The number of online booking has been increasing along with the development of tourism. E-Commerce for Guest-Houses in Jodhpur is aimed to investigate the business potential of Internet for these guest-houses. The study also identifies the benefits and problems brought by the new medium. E-Commerce is offering the guest houses in Jodhpur, a number of new opportunities that are cost effective and reliable, thereby for the first time, providing them with an opportunity to compete with their larger counterparts.
If markets are informationally efficient then information should be factored in both spot and derivatives markets simultaneously, but market imperfections leads to lead/ lag relationship and one market acts a dominant while other acts a satellite market. In this study, we examine the price discovery and volatility spillover between spot and futures segments of gold market in India. The daily data files stretch from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2014. Cointegration and related tools were used to examine the price discovery process and empirical results suggested bidirectional causality between spot and futures. A bivariate EGARCH model was used to study volatility spillover. Empirical results for information transmission through volatility spillover suggest that it is the spot market which leads the futures. The study contributed to the information transmission literature in India for commodity markets ie. gold.
This study investigates the judgments made by accounting majors when confronted with selected ethical dilemmas that pertain to accounting practice. Ethics, in its broader sense, deals with human conduct in relation to what is morally good and bad, right and wrong. To determine whether a decision is good or bad, the decision-maker must compare his/her options with some standard of perfection. This standard of perfection is not a statement of static position but requires the decision-maker to assess the situation and the values of the parties affected by the decision. The decision-maker must then estimate the outcome of the decision and be responsible for its results. In this article, Its been discussed about two major companies in which frauds occurred in recent times namely Enron and Satyam computers. Satyam scam is largest financial scam in India ever. We also discussed about what actually is a financial fraud and the responsibilities of the employees so that they can become loyal to the organization.
The history of the stock market is full of events striking enough to earn their own names: the Great Crash of 1929, the 'Tronics Boom of the early 1960s, the Go-Go Years of the late 1960s, the Nifty Fifty bubble of the early 1970s, the Black Monday crash of October 1987, and the Internet or Dotcom bubble of the 1990s. Each of these events refers to a dramatic level or change in stock prices that seems to defy explanation. The standard finance model, in which unemotional investors always force capital market prices to equal the rational present value of expected future cash flows, has considerable difficulty fitting these patterns. Researchers in behavioral finance have therefore been working to augment the standard model with an alternative model built on two basic assumptions.

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This article draws on the methods of philosophical analysis to provide a competing account of listening. This account distinguishes between two types of listening: a cognitive type and a non-cognitive type. By considering a number of familiar classroom incidents, the author shows that both kinds of listening have important roles in teaching and learning. The author concludes that the empathic type of listening cannot be taught directly, but that teachers can provide three kinds of helps indirectly to foster its growth in learners.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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The MiniPet®, one of TriContinent’s OEM micropipettes, is the world’s best selling micropipette. Compact and engineered for precision dispensing, the sturdy Minipet® air-displacement micropipette comes in a range of volumes and now offers custom color variations.
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Built from sturdy molded plastic, the air-displacement MiniPet® micropipette handles thousands of pipettings and can be customized with your name, logo, message, or custom packaging. Choose from the standard MiniPet® micropipette or work with us to design a MiniPet® pipette and package that will make a vibrant addition to a point of care diagnostic kit or serve as a colorful reminder of your company in any application.
The MiniPet® air displacement micropipette is available to retail customers as well as OEM customers in quantities of 1000 or more. Orders can be packaged in bulk (bags of 100) or in custom packaging that you designate. The MiniPet® is offered separately or with disposable tips. Options include a DeTipper bottle for convenient tip disposal. Add some color to your kits with the lively MiniPet®.
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It is the responsibility of the customer to determine the suitability of an application and the material compatibility of the products.

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So as we figured out at the previous post the load testing is just as important for the site as attractive design and competent advertising.
Sudden surge of visitors exceeding the capabilities of the Web server can cost for companies tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. Therefore, it is worth caring of the server selection and its configurations from the early days of your website development.
There are many tricks to increase the speed of web pages loading.. In some cases it is possible to achieve productivity growth of 500%-600% using simple optimization techniques.
The best answer for the question “How will I force the site to run faster?” is to use caching.
ViSolve reveals quite interesting return on investment data if you have two caching servers.
Now we will try to understand how two different types of caching help to keep the server resources and reduce the response time of Web pages.
«In computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere. If requested data is contained in the cache (cache hit), this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparatively faster. Otherwise (cache miss), the data has to be recomputed or fetched from its original storage location, which is comparatively slower. Hence, the greater the number of requests that can be served from the cache, the faster the overall system performance becomes». (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache). In other words caching is just saving some data in memory for later use without redoing resource-intensive operations.
Web applications constantly address to the database and files. Why do we always load the system with repeated complicated requests? When reading data from the hard drive it is necessary to reach the sector with stored information on the other hand read it. The data is retrieved for memory almost instantly.
The purpose of caching is to speed delivery of content to the user avoiding unnecessary operations performed by the web server. Transferring a file to memory allows you to reduce significantly the number of disk reads, which reduces the waiting time between clicking on a link and a full page load. There can be no productivity without caching.
Let’s explore how the Web Server can help with the optimization using the browser-caching and memory sharing.
The most well known type of cache is browser’s cache stored on your computer. Once the browser loads and displays the file (such as image, css or js files, etc.) downloaded data is not removed, and stored in special storage on your hard disk. When you request the file being previously loaded, web server tells the browser whether to request the data from the network or you can use a local copy of the file.
The Web server uses HTTP-headers to regulate what information can be used without change, and what to update. Cache control headers are critical for web application optimization of productivity, because they directly affect the speed of loading the requested content.
This header is supported almost everywhere. It is equally well suited to caching static images, and to regularly updated pages. It is enough to specify an appropriate value. If you select an incorrect date or date in the past one, the data will be considered as non-cached.
The use of the Expires header requires that the clock in the cache and the source server are synchronized. Otherwise, the same timestamp can be interpreted in different ways. Also do not forget to update the expiration date, if necessary. Otherwise, on its expiry the caching will stop working, and all requests will be sent to the server.
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I am against such approach, because it affects many more objects than necessary, and can lead to unpredictable consequences.
What is necessary to do, if I need to update a static object before its browser cache and proxy server storage expires? The easiest way is to change the URL. In more detail, the site developer should provide the option to add some additional key to the URL of the renewed object. This key should depend on the last modified date and have a minimum length of eight characters (the last condition is important to prevent collisions in the caching subsystem of the Mozilla Firefox browsers). This approach is more complicated in terms of implementation, however, it is most effective in term of site support convenience, because allows to establish long terms storage of objects in the browser cache and proxy servers and eliminates the problems associated with the upgrading of the renewed data.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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From a dream vacation to a cool change.
In the summer of 2014, Bruce and Cydne Cooley wanted to take their family on a vacation of a lifetime. After extensive research, they landed on MarineMax Vacations, a bareboat or captained yacht charter group out of the British Virgin Islands (BVI). They choose to self captain an Aquila 48 Power Catamaran, one of the Aquila models that MarineMax Vacations offers for charter. The Aquila 48 offers four individual cabins with en-suite heads; their two adult children could each have a private cabin.
While wandering around the sixty islands that make up the BVI, the Cooley family found that there wasn’t enough time to see it all on one trip and started planning their next trip. They eventually made two more vacations with MarineMax before deciding to purchase a brand new Aquila 44.
Their experience with the charter boats allowed the Cooleys to know just how they wanted their yacht outfitted. A unique aspect of Aquila is that we will customize the build to the owners' lifestyle and tastes. The Cooleys picked all of their interior finishes and cabinets as well as making some design changes and additions as part of the build. Raul Bermudez, General Manager MarineMax Vacations and Aquila Brand Manager, Harry Mountain, personally made sure they got everything that they wanted. They took delivery in June of 2016 in Clearwater, Florida.
About five days after taking delivery in Clearwater, Florida, Cydne and Bruce moved Cool Change to Pensacola, Florida, where they enjoyed almost every weekend aboard it last summer and fall. At the end of December, the whole family began a 10-day adventure on Cool Change. Crossing the Gulf of Mexico from Pensacola, where the boat was outfitted, to Fort Lauderdale where the boat will be staged for their next adventure. Bruce and Cydne with the help of their son Austin and daughter Camille along with her boyfriend, Kyle, found the boat roomy, and exceptionally smooth and stable. When asked what the team found to be the Aquila 44’s best features, Bruce responded that it was the simplicity of operation and the exceptional amount of comfortable living space.
Living outside New Orleans, in Mandeville, Louisiana, the Cooley’s planned to leave the boat in a marina in Fort Lauderdale for a couple of months and then, in stages, explore the Florida Keys, the Tortugas, the Bahamas and beyond.
“Some say ‘the fun is in the planning.’ I would say, ‘part of the fun is in the planning.’ And during the time between sailings, we will be dreaming and planning the next adventure. I would also say that the most fun is in the doing, getting out there and experiencing all that there is for fun on the water. Our family started out on a dream vacation and ended up with a lifetime of future adventures of discovery, quite a cool change.” concluded Bruce Cooley.

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Whether an individual is struggling with a mental health problem, substance abuse problem, or both, symptoms rarely exist in a vacuum, and usually begin to interfere with one’s ability to function at work or home. Have you seen these changes in yourself, a crew member or a loved one? While a comprehensive evaluation with a qualified mental health professional is the only way to accurately diagnosis a mental health or substance abuse disorder, you can the first step. Acknowledge the problem to yourself or your friend. While this takes tremendous courage, the good news is you don’t have to have any answers today. You just have to want to learn more.
Resources are available today to start the process of healing and recovery. The IAFF Center of Excellence is a 64-bed comprehensive treatment center is designed exclusively for IAFF members struggling with PTSD, addiction and other co-occurring mental health problems. Call 855-999-9845 today for a no-obligation, free and confidential screening for yourself or a friend.


text: Ms. Erica Nava is a proud product of LAUSD schools, from grades K-12th. In addition to being a member of the founding faculty of West Adams, she has worked in a variety of positions in her 15 year career with the district. Her experience includes middle and high school, she has served as an EL coordinator, Title 1 coordinator, testing coordinator, literacy coach, and small school administrator. Her expertise in counseling, master schedule and building community have been a valuable asset in contributing to the growth in API and the six year WASC accreditation at West Adams. She is proud to serve as West Adams’ Principal.


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As you might have heard, the Caps have lost a few games recently. No one really has good answer for why that’s happened. George McPhee wants the team to take fewer penalties. Jay Beagle wants to sacrifice a cow. Well, Caps fans can only take action on the latter. And they did. In the parking lot of Kettler Capitals Iceplex following the club’s morning skate before Saturday’s game against the Panthers, rubber cows and goats had their noggins chopped off for a good cause. In the vein of a similar (and successful) plea to the heavens when the Nationals were in the dumps, Jenn Rubenstein of Arlington, Virginia led the ceremonial hacking while the Nats’ rubber chicken man Hugh Kaufman, who spearheaded the baseball version, joined in.
So does this brilliant idea mean the Caps headed for a Stanley Cup now? Rubenstein wouldn’t go that far.

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CHICAGO (May 1, 2018) – The U.S. Under-19 Men’s National Team will travel to Trnava, Slovakia from May 1-12 to participate in 2018 Slovakia Cup. The U.S. has been drawn into Group B with Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, while Azerbaijan, Hungary, Slovakia and Wales make up Group A. All teams will face a fourth opponent in the placement stage, but only the two group winners will vie for Slovakia Cup Champions.
The U-19 MNT’s most recent trip to the Slovakia Cup was a Championship run in 2016. After victories over Georgia and Ukraine in the group stage, the U.S. went on to defeat Russia 2-1 in the final. That squad featured future MNT player Weston McKennie as well as 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Champions Luca de la Torre and Marlon Fossey.
This tournament will mark just the second gathering for the U-19 MNT during the 2018-19 player cycle, and second under the helm of Dave van den Bergh, who transitions to the U-19 head coaching role after serving as the U-15 Boys’ National Team head coach since February of 2016.
Van den Bergh has called up 20 players for the series of international tests, 19 of whom were born in 2000 (the birth year for this age group of U-19s). The only 2001-born player on the roster is midfielder Taylor Booth (Unattached).
Booth makes his debut with the U-19s, along with Jake Arteaga (LA Galaxy), Kyle Holcomb (Pateadores), Declan McGlynn (Crossfire Premier), Jacobo Reyes (C.F. Monterrey), James Sands (New York City FC) and Sean Zawadzki (Columbus Crew SC).
Booth, Reyes and Sands are joined by Blaine Ferri (Solar Soccer Club), Justin Garces (Atlanta United FC), Chris Gloster (Hannover 96) and Akil Watts (Unattached) as veterans of the 2017 U-17 World Cup in India. Zyen Jones (FC Schalke 04) was part of the 2017 Concacaf U-17 Championship squad that qualified the USA to India.
All the players on this roster are age-eligible for the team that will attempt to qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Poland. The age cut-off for that World Cup is players born on or after January 1, 1999.
19 of 20 players have ties to the U.S. Soccer Development Academy.
In July of 2017, Atlanta United FC teammates Charlie Asensio and Zyen Jones won the U-15/16 Development Academy national title.
James Sands is the only player on the roster to have signed a professional Homegrown contract, the first Homegrown player ever for New York City FC.


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Riff your way through this psychedelic rock-god adventure. The purple haze has ascended and Jimi is waiting to taint you with these 5 reel slots play. Enjoy free spin bonus rounds featuring iconic Hendrix tunes Crosstown traffic and Little Wing.
Here’s a great slots game for fans of the great guitar slinger Jimi Hendrix, or indeed for any rock music, or online slots lovers! Net Entertainment developed the game and we think you will love it if even just for the groove-tastic soundtrack and rocking guitar riffs of the master! What could be better than playing a slots game based entirely upon the late great Jimi Hendrix, possibly the greatest guitarist ever! We think Jimi himself would be shouting from the Watchtower to get you to give this game a spin. Jimi was a total legend and this slots game is heading the same way! Come one and have a jam with Jimi and the Wizard!
Net Entertainment takes the credit for this inspired game. They have a great pedigree and some amazing games on the market, and this one just made it near the top of our list. Here at Wizard we work very closely with Netent. The content and design in this game are amazing and the tunes are the icing on the cake.
This is an amazing slots game with 5 reels, three main rows and 20 fixed paylines to play on. As you’d expect the main attraction of the best UK slots game is the main man himself, the maestro that was Hendrix, the genius guitarist and songwriter responsible for songs such as All over the Watchtower, Purple Haze and Cross Town traffic. It is no surprise therefore that the backing music to this slots game is beyond amazing, in fact totally awesome dude. You must turn your speakers up to really benefit from the soundtrack and rocking tracks.
Betting on the game ranges from between 20 pence all the way up to an amazing £200, so be a little careful when placing those bets, to make sure you stay on budget. The rocking thing is that you can win up 400 times your original wager so Jimi Hendrix will be shining down on you with a win that big!
This slots game has an amazing animated intro complete with the legendary music of the great guitar maestro, so you will definitely be rocking and ready to play. The somewhat strange choice of a desert backdrop might seem slightly odd, but it actually suits the rest of the game really well, so adds to the experience rather than detracting from it. The symbols on the reels themselves are, as you might expect, musically related, with musical notes, classical records and the peace symbol all being there. As usual with Net Entertainment games there is an autoplay feature for those who would; prefer to sit back and enjoy the tunes and lets the slots game do the hard work, making those spins!
The bonus features are also rocking, the first of which is represented by Jimi’s famous white Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, as the scatter. This feature is called Pick and Click and is activated by landing on three of the guitar symbols on any three, four or even five reels. This engages a picking game that you play until you have three corresponding symbols, which in turn will award several bonuses. These can include a range of free spins or even some multipliers.
The second feature is based on the classic song Purple Haze and if you land the Purple Haze symbol anywhere on reel one then you will be rewarded with the icon becoming wild along the reels and a bigger pay-out being calculated. This is loads of fun.
The other feature is a play on the classic Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze and the associated Purple Haze Symbol. If you manage to land the purple haze symbol anywhere on reel one then you will be rewarded with the symbol being “wild” along the reels and a bigger win being calculated. We really enjoyed this extra bonus feature, it’s a lot of fun.

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text: EPUB / PDF, PDF, Ebook | READ ONLINE, (ebook online), (Download Ebook) Description Help a teen you know deal with the changes in his or her life with the book that has helped so many others. ?Cheese? is a metaphor for what you want in life and the book gives teens a fun vocabulary and way to understand change and move forward in their lives.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions