Tag: Masquerade

Mek Mi Fly Go Dubai: CARICOM and the COP28 Masquerade

On November 30, the COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference formally opened at Expo City, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Caribbean heads-of-state, government ministers, and advisors descended on Dubai two short weeks after the Saudi Arabia-CARICOM Summit in Riyadh. At this stop on thei...

The Mystery of the Masquerade (Revisited)

Let’s talk about masks for a bit — such as the ones worn for Carnival all over the world. With Carnival, the art of the masquerade unfolds in the same way it has for the last few centuries in Italy and the Americas, where you see some of the beautiful and all of the unforgettab...