It's all about fashion in Caribbean Beat's May/June issue!

Fashion is the focus of Caribbean Beat’s May – June issue, out now, timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Caribbean Fashion Week, staged in Jamaica in June, and Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago, which begins at the end of May.

It’s not all gowns and glamour, as Laura Dowrich-Phillips found when she spoke to some of the stalwarts who are working to put the Caribbean fashion industry on a sound footing.

Lisa Allen-Agostini measures up the saga boy style of the tailors on the cutting edge at Millhouse. We sample Brown Sugar designs from Judith Rawlins of St Kitts, and find out how Francis Hendy, a shy, retiring tailor from Belmont, became a big name in New York’s fashion district.

Away from the catwalk, Caribbean Beat travels down the river road of Guyana’s mighty Essequibo River. Paul Crask climbs Dominica’s Morne Trois Pitons in search of something more profound than a cold beer at the end of the climb – but does he find it? Meanwhile, marine biologist Eric Hawk goes looking for the leatherbacks, in a seven-year quest that takes him to the turtles’ nesting grounds on Trinidad’s northeast coast.

But Caribbean Beat goes even further afield, from an early-morning jazz café in Toronto to the man who’s been called Ethiopia’s answer to Bob Marley. And we cover entertainment, personalities, food, and history, as well as our regular roundup of events, music and books that are reflecting the region right now.

Caribbean Beat is published six times a year. Other titles produced by MEP are ENERGY Caribbean, the ENERGY Caribbean Yearbook, and Discover Trinidad and Tobago.

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