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 ...

The ultimate life-affirming ritual, a celebration of freedom in its most distilled sense, the Caribbean’s largest Carnival has of course been on pause due to the pandemic—leaving legions of devotees ...

It may have been anticipated, but now it's official: thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, Trinidad and Tobago's 2021 Carnival celebrations have been cancelled. Prime Minister Keith Rowley made the ...

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 ...

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 Carnival, aptly dubbed The Greatest Show on Earth, is back for the first time since January 2020, just before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. Revelers from across the globe have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can take the girl out of Trinidad, but you can never take the Trini out of the girl, and everyone’s favorite Barbie, Nicki Minaj, is proof of that. The 37-year-old “Yikes” rapper and Trinidad and ...

Nicki Minaj has never been one to shy away from repping her Trinidadian roots. The “Super Freaky Girl” rapper returned to her home country in 2020 to celebrate Carnival just a few weeks before ...