Caribbean Travel

WTOP The West Indies hideaway of Barbados is lush, tropical and filled with a mix of luxury properties, family-friendly hotels and all-inclusive resorts. The beaches on the island’s Platinum Coast are brimming with soft, white powdery sand and strikingly clear water, which makes for perfect conditions to spot sea turtles, colourful fish and other types of ocean wildlife.

Fortune Once the star island of the sugar trade, the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis now produces something even sweeter: an overwhelming surplus of mangoes. Branches hang heavy with them over the narrow roads that wind around the island; fallen fruit stays only a few minutes on the ground before the wild donkeys and monkeys that roam the island snatch it up. Something about the island’s climate and soil has led it to play host to thousands upon thousands of mango trees, sporting the indigenous Nano variety—fibrous and complex, with undertones of papaya—the much-coveted Amory Polly, favoured by Nevisians for its sweetness, or some 42 other kinds of mango.

BBC Indian people have been living in the Caribbean for more than 180 years, but Chandani Persaud, the founder of Indo-Caribbean London, says that their contribution to the West Indies is overlooked, and they are often excluded by the Asian community.