Public Service Announcement: Check on your Trininadian friends. Check on all of your Caribbean friends. They're not OK. Because for perhaps the first time in Caribbean history, that time of year has ...

Ever since it was announced that Trinidad and Tobago's 2021 Carnival celebrations would be cancelled because of COVID-19, enthusiasts of the national festival have been feeling a tad maudlin. This ...

With lockdowns and travel bans devastating the live music industry last year, musicians across the world turned to online performances and streaming platforms to make up the numbers. But for soca, a ...

The soundtrack of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, especially where calypso music is concerned, has traditionally been topical, dealing with national or even global issues that have captured people's ...

On a normal day in early February, Trinidad and Tobago’s Queen’s Park Savannah would be bustling in preparation for Carnival. Vendors would be constructing their stalls, covering tables with water and ...

When Miami Carnival was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, its absence left a huge hole in many Caribbean hearts. It returned in 2021 — the first North American Carnival since the pandemic ...

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 ...

In honor of the year that Trinidad Carnival wasn’t—the annual Caribbean festival was cancelled this year due to the pandemic—Baz Dreisinger pens a personal homage, inspired by Wallace Stevens’s poem ...

A reveler smiles at last year’s Miami Carnival, which was the first North American Caribbean carnival in 2021. Miami Carnival 2022 starts Oct. 1. SAM NAVARRO Special for the Miami Herald When Miami ...