Inside this issue:
• Events around the Caribbean in July and August, from a diving festival in Dominica to Carnival in St Lucia
• Barbados Crop Over and the Leeds West Indian Carnival
• Is the Caribbean Premier League the start of a West Indies cricket revival?
• Some go hashing for the exercise. Others are motivated by the booze
• Does medicine hold the key to diversifying Caribbean tourism?
• This month’s reading and listening picks
• Franka Philip explains why knowing where your produce comes from adds something special to your meal
• When it comes to athletics, the Caribbean — Jamaica in particular — has dominated the eld for the past decade. And as the 2016 Olympics open this August in Rio de Janeiro, all eyes will be on Usain Bolt and his peers from across the region. Kwame Laurence pro les some of our leading Olympic contenders
• The 1st woman to be elected Commonwealth secretary-general, Dominica-born Patricia Scotland has made history in more ways than one over her stellar