PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad– Looking out at the thousands of people gathered on Fantastic Friday, aka Carnival Friday, for a soca concert in the middle of Hasely Crawford Stadium evoked a deep sense of ...

Trinidad’s Carnival grips the island with an energy unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. From the moment you arrive, you’ll feel it: the beat of the soca music vibrating through your body, the ...

Trinidad Carnival is a way of life steeped in history and fueled by an infectious energy that takes over the streets. If you’re planning to experience it for the first time, a little preparation will ...

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Visionary entrepreneur Johnny Mack has transformed the Trinidad Carnival experience through an innovative solution to one of the island’s biggest tourism challenges: severe accommodation shortages ...

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, ...

Russell Wilson is ready for baby No. 5 after watching Ciara buss a wine at Trinidad Carnival and we don’t blame him. Ciara recently shared a hypnotizing video of her playing mas in full costume while ...

Introduction: resistance and identity: Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago / Milla C. Riggio - - Origins of rituals and customs in the Trinidad Carnival: African or European? / Hollis Urban Liverpool - - ...

Devotees of Trinidad Carnival study the season for sport. This means that we take meticulous, scholarly note of every single thing about the Caribbean’s biggest annual bacchanal: which food was served ...

It’s 3 pm on Carnival Monday in Port of Spain, Trinidad. It’s 3 pm on Carnival Monday in Port of Spain, Trinidad. An unrelenting sun beats down on the shimmering blacktop which is littered with ...