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 ...

They are easy to spot among the rush of colour of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, their bodies covered in blue and their screams and antics somehow both frightening and fun. They are blue devil ...

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 great poet and novelist Wilson Harris died exactly one year ago. Or did he? Like one of his characters, Harris has come back. He has returned in the form of a band of moko jumbies — a motley crew ...

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 ...

Carnival in the Caribbean, a riotous spectacle of drums, rhythm, dance, color and phantasmagorical characters, inspires jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles. “I have always thought of Carnival ...

Festivities get fierce in this island nation as the Jab Molassie take to the streets. These pitchfork-toting devils—just one type of the many Carnival characters—cover themselves with molasses or ...

What do you get when you blend smooth, American jazz with the electrifying sights and sounds of Trinidad’s Carnival? Well, thanks to Julliard-trained percussionist and composer Etienne Charles, ...

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 ...