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VincyMas 2022 will be packed into two weekends this year with scaled down, vaccinated events, unless 70 per cent of the eligible population becomes vaccinated against COVID-19.  Should the 70 per cent target be met by March/April, the cultural festival will be held in its full unrestricted state. But until those figures come to fruition, the Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) has curated a list of events in keeping with existing …

The Caribbean cultural community has lost another of its legends, the veteran “Mighty Bomber”, Grenadian by birth, who won the Calypso Monarch in Trinidad and Tobago in 1964 with his unforgettable “James and Joan”, better known as “Dah-Ying, Dah-Ying” in colloquial terms. It was a classical rendition explaining in simple terms, “how a family start” based on the exchanges between two young people. When accompanied by his rendition on world …

The Caribbean cultural community has lost another of its legends, the veteran “Mighty Bomber”, Grenadian by birth, who won the Calypso Monarch in Trinidad and Tobago in 1964 with his unforgettable “James and Joan”, better known as “Dah-Ying, Dah-Ying” in colloquial terms. It was a classical rendition explaining in simple terms, “how a family start” based on the exchanges between two young people. When accompanied by his rendition on world …

“[…] A ‘no mask, no mas’ policy should be adopted with costume designers incorporating this aspect of PPE into costume designs.“[…] The parade of the bands should be condensed in to one

Celebrated on 1 August to commemorate the end of slavery in the British colonies (1838), Emancipation Day — a public holiday — is usually marked with street processions (a morning procession, including towering moko jumbies, and a flambeaux-lit Canboulay procession in the evening); religious and ...

Culture Grenadian culture is a mixture of British, African, West Indian and French influences which has left an indomitable influence in the folklore, dialect, music and general way of life. French influence on Grenadian culture can still be found in surnames, names of villages and the local dialect or Patois. Historical sites also portray remnants of French and British colonial architecture that have been well preserved. African heritage is deeply rooted in Grenadian music, dance and festival...

Toggle Sidebar Carnival in Trinidad: A Spectator’s Report with Photo Gallery Trinidad’s carnival is a mix of pounding melodies of calypso and soca bands, racy rhymes, steel drums and a circus of as many as 300,000 people dressed from head to toe in peacock-hued costumes that march and dance around the streets – or so Nadia Tyson tells us in this account of her experiences in Pasadena’s Star-News. I traveled to Trinidad and Tobago a total of three times in the past two years but never o...

Carnival queen Roxanne Omalo holds court in Mayaro Sunday 14 February 2021 Roxanne Omalo intended to retire after winning the queen of Carnival title in 2020. But the veteran masquerader ultimately decided she has a few more performances to make for her group members and supporters. - CHEQUANA WHEELER On a first encounter with Roxanne Omalo, one would be astonished by her cool demeanour. Who would think this woman has danced with and pulled almost 1,800 pounds of a Carnival costume on the Diman...

Dimanche Gras! Not deflated, not defeated, will Brathwaite’s WI double up in Dhaka? A double-century on debut! And in Asia to boot! That’s the stuff of which West Indian boyhood dreams are made. As well as come-from-behind West Indian victories.  Guardian cricket reporter Vinode Mamchan did not seem to know about these dreams. Or to care about them. Photo: West Indies batsman Kyle Mayers on the attack against Bangladesh in his Test debut. On television on Friday evening, he was asked by pr...

A voice from the ghetto Wednesday 3 February 2021 THE EDITOR: When I awoke to the news of Singing Sandra’s passing on January 28, my response was like that of a true addict. First denial – this cannot be real; then acceptance – sadly it is; followed by sadness – she will no longer be around to bless us with her gift. And what a gift it was. I did not know Singing Sandra personally, but like many coming out of Morvant, Laventille and Beetham I felt a special affinity towards her and her...