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One thing this country is extra­ordinarily gifted at is its creative impulses, and Carnival is the premier showcase for it.The sound of steel pans was my first and abiding connection to Carnival.

Gusty, unpredictable winds at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain caused trouble for masmen and women at Wednesday night’s National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) Kings and Queens semi-final

Most everything you’ve heard about Trinidad Carnival is true. People party in the streets for two days straight. People let loose for weeks before. It's an explosion of cultural creativity. It’s the mother of West Indian-style carnivals. And it is a uniquely Trinidadian experience you are unlikely to forget

That’s how two-time national calypso monarch Chuck Gordon (Roderick Gordon) describes tomorrow’s Calypso Fiesta, at Skinner Park, San Fernando.Forty semi-finalists pulled for positions yesterday during the Trinbago Unified Calyp­sonians’ Organisation’s

Decked in his professor’s robes and mortarboard, soca superstar Machel Montano performed “Soul of Calypso” at the Divas Calypso Cabaret at the Little Carib Theatre in Woodbrook on Thursday night,

THIS is an extempo. This country is on its way down. Exhibit One is that the refinery at Pointe-a-Pierre has long been standing idle. The area which the refinery takes

Jimmy, born L’shun Emmanuel, so coined his hybrid pop-kaiso sound almost a decade ago.Since then, the sub-genre has exploded into local and regional consciousness. Jimmy’s hitmaking collaboration with soca star

Any hope held by Mas band leaders to be allocated a space for costume construction will have to wait a while longer following the disclosure that their previously designated, and incomplete, home in Sion Hill has been handed over to the Roads, Buildings & General Services Authority (BRAGSA).

It is a pity that once more I am forced to preface my comments on what seems to have been a fairly successful full-fledged return to VINCYMAS, with grave concerns over violent attacks on Cuban health professionals. For the second successive weekend, representatives of these selfless internationalists were violently attacked, ironically in the town where the most significant medical institution is based, Georgetown. Just one week ago, via this column, …

Lornette “Fya Empress” Nedd decisively claimed the calypso monarchy at Dimanche Gras on Sunday July 9 with her performance of the song “The Price of Neglect”.