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Atlanta welcomes 38th Annual Caribbean Carnival with focus on Trinidad and Tobago

Atlanta embraces the spirit of the Caribbean as the 38th Annual Atlanta Caribbean Carnival unfolds in a spectacular display of music, masquerade, and multicultural unity. …
Radeya Osman
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Junior fancy sailors set course for Notting Hill Nursery Carnival

Impatient for Carnival Monday in London? It’s sooner than you think – if you’re a child! The Notting Hill Nursery Carnival has been organised for...
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Notting Hill Carnival 2018 – back to the future

The hall was hot and steamy and reverberating to the sound of steelpan. Round the sides, stalls offered cold beers, rum punch, doubles and...
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Dean Ackin focused on ‘Brand T&T’ as Tribe turns 15

With its place on the Carnival landscape well established, Tribe is now taking the lead to ensure that Trinidad and Tobago’s place in Carnival...
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Calypso stars ready to light up the London Tent

The annual treat for the capital’s calypso-lovers is upon us! The London Calypso Tent, run by the Association of Calypsonians UK (ACUK), opens its...
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Children’s carnival day in Hackney

Hackney Carnival is getting better and better. The leaders have been listening to the local community and implementing programmes to strengthen the event and...
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Small Island Unity ready to blow into Rotterdam and London

They didn’t take part last year due to a contractual dispute with the organisers, but now they’re ready to storm into Rotterdam Zomer Carnaval...
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Saint Lucia soca monarch registration now open

Saint Lucian soca artist have just 7 days to submit their entries for the preliminaries of this year’s Saint Lucia Soca Monarch competition. Forms...
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Notting Hill Carnival: maligned and misused

“Six more stabbings in a night – now urgent review of police crime tactics is launched.” No, the Evening Standard headline of 9 May wasn’t...
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Preston gets set for two days of Caribbean mas and music

Preston is really going to town with its Caribbean Carnival this month. Up till now it has been a one-day affair, but the historic...
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Carnival surveillance scandal: if the face fits…

… you’re nicked! That, at least, is how the Metropolitan Police hoped to operate at Notting Hill Carnival 2016 and 2017. It didn’t quite...
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The Heart of Carnival in Luton

Luton International Carnival are bringing the love to Luton by celebrating ‘Home is Where the Heart Is’. With Luton Town Football Club promoted to...
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Carnival Village to lead or not to lead

Notting Hill Carnival, that magnificent juggernaut that comes around every last Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday in August, is almost upon us. In a...
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Carnival in Nashville

Most of us associate Nashville, Texas with Stetsons, cowboy boots and country music. But on Saturday 19 May all of this will change, when...
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Discredited Council strips Notting Hill Carnival leaders of funding

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) has pulled the plug on London Notting Hill Carnival Enterprises Trust (LNHCET), organiser of Europe’s largest...
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St Pauls Carnival will return for 50

Bristol’s St Pauls Carnival has been struggling in recent years, due to lack of funding and other administration issues. But the carnival, which last...
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How authentic is Notting Hill Carnival?

That’s the question Connor Roberts is hoping you’ll answer. Connor is a student at Manchester Metropolitan University and is researching Notting Hill Carnival for...
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ROC brainstorms Notting Hill Carnival’s future

What do you get when you put 40 or so carnivalists in a room and tell them to solve Notting Hill Carnival’s problems? Surprisingly (some may think) not a cacophony of passion and prejudice, but a wealth of good ideas.
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Notting Hill Carnival think-tank to meet on Sunday

Notting Hill campaign group Reclaim Our Carnival (ROC) will be holding an afternoon of discussions about the event’s future on Sunday 14 January
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Trinidad Carnival 2K18… the drama continues

With Trinidad Carnival 2018 soon upon us preparations continue apace alongside the expected debates and disagreements
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Notting Hill Carnival – the debate continues on Monday

Notting Hill Carnival pressure group Reclaim Our Carnival (ROC) has called a public meeting for Monday 20 November
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Walk and wine* through Notting Hill Carnival

If you mentioned ‘Notting Hill’ 20 years ago it was Hugh Grant’s blue door that came to most people’s minds
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Police and councils come under fire at Notting Hill Carnival meeting

Police, councils and Notting Hill Carnival organisers were slammed at a packed and passionate meeting at the Tabernacle on 30 October
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ACUK to launch Calypso in London book on 26 October

This year the London Calypso Tent enjoyed its best season yet. Now it has even more reason celebrate
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Paint and powder bands protest at Notting Hill Carnival

Judges at Notting Hill Carnival were greeted by protests from several big ‘dutty mas’ bands on Carnival Sunday.
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Hackney carnival takes place today

For more than four decades Hackney has been finding good reasons to celebrate on the streets
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Notting Hill Carnival 2017 CMA Soca on the Move results

CMA Soca on the Move, Sunday 27 August 2017
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Notting Hill Carnival 2017 On the Road Results

Here are the results for Notting Hill Carnival 2017
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Calypsonian All Rounder honoured in London

Pressure of news during Notting Hill Carnival prevented us from mentioning that the Association of Calypsonians UK (ACUK, formerly ABC)
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Harare International Carnival reaches climax on Saturday

It’s still only a few years old, but in terms of attendance Zimbabwe’s Harare International Carnival (HIC) has become one of the biggest in Africa. This year the theme is ‘One Love: Our Unity, Our Pride’.
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Recycling Notting Hill Carnival

Clearing up after a party is always a headache even a handful of friends can manage to leave enough rubbish
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