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This article was originally published in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. An updated version is republished below with permission. This is easy to miss unless you are thinking about Indianness in the ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Shynel Brizan remembers her first Kings and Queens of Carnival competition like it was yesterday. It was 2012. She was 19 years old and still relatively new to the moko ...

The National Carnival Commission shares the lineup for its first “Taste of Carnival,” a mix of virtual and in-person events. Trinidad’s National Carnival Commission has announced the lineup for what’s ...

Trinidad’s National Carnival Commission has announced the lineup for what’s being called a “Taste of Carnival,” a combination of virtual and in-person events at spaces deemed safe zones. It’s a scaled ...

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...

Ciara made her way to Trinidad and Tobago for the country’s 2025 Carnival celebration, ready to dance and have a good time. The 39-year-old took to Instagram to share a video of her “Chippin down di ...

I am about to do something sacrilegious: offer up reasons to not go to Trinidad for Carnival. Number one reason—well, the only reason: your bank account. The Caribbean’s biggest, brashest bacchanal, ...

J’Ouvert, which means “day opened” in French, is the celebration that marks the beginning of Carnival in the Caribbean. As part of Trinidad Carnival, J’Ouvert revelers covered in blue paint dance and ...