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Soca News – Soca Events Guide July 2021

Don’t know where to go, or what to do?Our events listing is all you need to keep you in the know. We cover predominately...

Joseph Charles - Thu 08 Jul 2021

News Travel

T&T borders are reopening on 17 July

After closing its borders on 22 March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Trinidad and Tobago is cautiously reopening its gates from 17...

Stephen Spark - Thu 08 Jul 2021

5 Fun Facts About Yasmin Joseph’s J’Ouvert

With just three days left before the current run of J'Ouvert comes to an end at the Harold Pinter Theatre here are 5...

Radeya Osman - Thu 01 Jul 2021

Barbados Crop Over 2021 cancelled

For the second year in a row, Barbados Crop Over has been cancelled due to Covid-19-related issues, which have made it impossible to hold...

Radeya Osman - Wed 30 Jun 2021

News Videos

Boom Bang

Soca News Music - Tue 29 Jun 2021

Windrush Monument – no pictures please!

People wishing to visit the Windrush Monument are likely to be prevented from take pictures of it if the memorial is placed, as planned,...

Stephen Spark - Thu 24 Jun 2021

Prolific writer Winsford ‘Joker’ Devine passes away

Dr Winsford ‘Joker’ Devine, iconic Trinbagonian calypso songwriter and self-taught musician, has passed away at the age of 77 after a long illness. He died...

Radeya Osman - Wed 23 Jun 2021

Windrush Tales: ‘Windrush monument should be in Brixton’

At a well-attended Zoom meeting called by the Windrush Foundation on 16 June, the near unanimous view was that the government’s proposed monument to...

Stephen Spark - Tue 22 Jun 2021

Windrush Tales: The horrific story of Empire Windrush

These days, the arrival of Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 is seen as a positive moment in Britain’s history. If it...

Stephen Spark - Mon 21 Jun 2021

Health & Fitness News

Looking after your mental health in lockdown

During the Covid-19 pandemic we have found ourselves turning into paranoid hygiene warriors, isolated from our tribes and reliant on social media to keep...

Alicia Alvarados - Sun 20 Jun 2021

Windrush Tales: Windrush Myths and Reality

Lots of stories have grown up about the Empire Windrush and its passengers,the so-called ‘Windrush Generation’, and sometimes it can be hard to sift...

Stephen Spark - Sun 20 Jun 2021

News Soca People

Lil Bitts and a little Talawa

Versatile Lil Bitts (Shivonne Liesl-Anne Churche) from Trinidad has been making soca music for many decades. But there is more to know about Lil...

Joseph Charles - Sun 20 Jun 2021

Grenada to allow hosting of cultural activities during carnival period

Although Spicemas Corporation, the main organiser of Grenada Carnival, will not be presenting the festival this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the government...

Radeya Osman - Sat 19 Jun 2021

Notting Hill Carnival off the road in 2021 – official

London’s premier annual outdoor event, Notting Hill Carnival, will not take place on the streets of west London this year, the organiser announced in...

Stephen Spark - Fri 18 Jun 2021

Nailah goes Bad with new song

Trinidadian singer, songwriter and fashion icon, Nailah Blackman has released a new track, entitled Bad, which has at the time of writing been streamed...

Joseph Charles - Fri 18 Jun 2021

Triniboi Joocie is celebrating with a Bottle Over his Head

UK Soca artist and former Soca News - UK Soca Monarch winner, Triniboi Joocie (Rodell Sorzano) is celebrating his 2019 hit soca track Bottle...

Joseph Charles - Thu 17 Jun 2021

Notting Hill Carnival decision delayed

The fate of Notting Hill Carnival 2021 hangs in the balance, as the organiser pulled back from deciding whether to hold the event on...

Stephen Spark - Wed 16 Jun 2021

Grenfell – four years on and nothing has changed

The wrapped wreck of the burnt-out Grenfell Tower is still visible from the route of Notting Hill Carnival four years after the devastating fire...

Stephen Spark - Wed 16 Jun 2021

Windrush Tales: The World the Windrush found

“The past is another country”, they say. A traveller from 2021 who stepped down the gangplank and found themselves in 1948 – the year...

Stephen Spark - Sun 13 Jun 2021

Soca News – Soca Events Guide June 2021

Don’t know where to go, or what to do?Our events listing is all you need to keep you in the know. We cover predominately...

Joseph Charles - Sun 13 Jun 2021

Uncertain forecast for UK’s summer carnivals

After a year in which almost every carnival, music festival and village fete was cancelled, it was hoped that the successful vaccine rollout would...

Stephen Spark - Sat 12 Jun 2021

Nottingham Carnival 2021 – Ready, Set, Go!

Organisers of the much-loved Nottingham Carnival are planning to hold this year's event on Sunday 22 August at the Victoria Embankment. The decision came...

Radeya Osman - Fri 11 Jun 2021

Rebekah Murrell – in the Director’s Chair, talks J’Ouvert

J’Ouvert first came to our attention when it played at Theatre 503, Battersea, in June 2019 - and it makes a return this year...

Joseph Charles - Tue 08 Jun 2021

Miami Carnival 2021 set to open on Columbus Day Weekend

Miami Carnival is set to return in October this year. After a year of hiatus, Miami-Broward One Carnival Host Committee in partnership with the...

Radeya Osman - Sat 05 Jun 2021

Barking & Dagenham Carnival 2021

The Barking & Dagenham Carnival has been running for seven years, but this year on Saturday 10 July 2021, it will take on a...

Joseph Charles - Fri 04 Jun 2021

Film & Television News

Hero lands on Amazon Prime and Cineplex

Trinidadian movie Hero is now available for streaming in Canada on Premium VOD in the Cineplex Store, Prime Video in the United States and...

Radeya Osman - Wed 02 Jun 2021

Bunji releases Trini Lingo

Trinidad’s Viking of Soca, Bunji Garlin, has finally released his tik tok hit on his new YouTube channel. Trini Lingo was published on Bunji’s...

Soca News Staff - Mon 31 May 2021