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We keep up with Caribbean people when they're having fun and when they're on social media.

 

It's the stuff you turn to when you switch off the news. Our rolling Buzz Twitter feed rounds up the chatter on Caribbean culture, sports and fun.

 

 
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Part two of Jabari Fraser’s Trinidad Carnival snapshots – Sweet waist, steelband frenzy, kaiso picong in the Trinidad Carnival.
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They say ‘Carnival is bacchanal’ and Jabari Fraser explains a few of the 2013 Trinidad carnival controversies.
Sid Sloane
CBeebies star Sid Sloane joins the festive pantomime season while planning his next Guyana trip. Profile by Colin Babb.
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Dania Bogle explores modern and traditional expectations as her baby marks its first Jamaican Christmas.
Bertie Marshall
Tributes are paid to a steel-pan icon, innovator and sometimes fighter for the cause of pan in his native Trinidad.
Lincoln Alexander and Charles Roach
Raynier Maharaj writes from Toronto on the loss of two iconic members of the Caribbean Diaspora in Canada.
Vincent Osbourne
Writer Colin Babb profiles St Kitts-Nevis' Vincent Osborne and his work in the UK and the Caribbean promoting opera.
Dutch Embassy in Surinam
Once regarded as broadcasts for the Dutch on holiday, Radio Netherlands Dutch broadcasts to the Caribbean came to an end in September.
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The results of our first Caribbean Intelligence Short Story competition.
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Memories of the Olympics - the Caribbean Intelligence Olympic picture gallery. Enjoy the highlights of London 2012.