News

What To Do In Notting Hill While In Town For The...

Every summer London hosts its famous Notting Hill Carnival, a massive celebration of Caribbean culture. The Carnival primarily serves as a music festival, but...

ggoodis - Mon 12 Aug 2019

Feature

Calling on the diaspora – the Caribbean Skills Bank

The images are harrowing. Houses with their roofs blown off, trees strewn across the road, power lines wrecked, transport thrown into confusion, people crying,...

Stephen Spark - Sun 11 Aug 2019

Books Community News

New mystery-adventure stories in Creole bring Guyana to life for our...

What if you could have something special to remind you of 'back home'? How do you best teach your children what it was like...

Community Member - Sun 11 Aug 2019

News Results

Boyzie is the 2019 Grenada Power Soca Monarch whilst Dash and...

The 2019 Grenada Soca Monarch competition concluded in the early hours of this morning, Saturday 10 August, the finals were held at Grenada's National...

Joseph Charles - Sat 10 Aug 2019

News

Lynette Gabriel

It is with great sadness that we learnt of the passing of Lynette Gabriel, at the end of July. Lynette and Carl are the artists...

Katie Segal - Fri 09 Aug 2019

News Review

June Jerkfest

Held at Feet East in Brick Lane on 23 June, London Jerk Festival brought together 10 chefs and their stalls, offering a wide variety...

Dunstan Creavalle - Thu 01 Aug 2019

Health & Fitness News

Let’s talk about Prostate Cancer

Like many men, Godfrey Fletcher, had little knowledge of prostate cancer when he was diagnosed at just 47. The news came as a complete shock....

Joseph Charles - Thu 01 Aug 2019

News

Nailah Blackman performs Sweet and Loco on Canadian TV Show, Your...

Trinidadian soca artists Nailah Blackman performs her latest release Sweet & Loco on the Your Morning show, CTV Canada. Nailah is currently in Canada to...

Joseph Charles - Wed 31 Jul 2019

News

Tweaks at the Tent – London calypso season trimmed

For calypso enthusiasts in the UK, the Notting Hill Carnival season doesn’t truly start until the first Friday in August. That date is, of...

Stephen Spark - Tue 30 Jul 2019

News Soca People

Kaiso Lime ignites new soca singing ambition for veteran artist

Kaiso Lime’s June edition, on Saturday 1 June, saw new artists entertain the crowd. One of these was Betty ‘Soca Baby’ Alexander, who is...

Michelle Gederon - Mon 29 Jul 2019

News

Mikey is The One Soca Monarch 2019

The finals of the first-ever MQI/98.1 The One Soca Monarch competition were held at the Botanical Gardens in Barbados yesterday. With the inclement weather...

Joseph Charles - Sat 27 Jul 2019

Feature

Stinky sargassum could smell sweet for the Caribbean

A strange brown island the size of Jamaica has appeared in the Atlantic Ocean. It has no name and appears on no maps yet...

Stephen Spark - Sun 21 Jul 2019

News Results

Antigua Party Monarch semi-finalists announced

The 2019 FLOW Party Monarch Semi-finals will take place at the Cooler Fete at Antigua Recreation Ground on Monday 22 July. The competition is divided...

Joseph Charles - Wed 17 Jul 2019

News

Bikini, beads and a bank loan

With just under a month to go before the Crop Over highlight of Grand Kadooment, cash-strapped Barbadians are being offered a financial lifeline by...

Stephen Spark - Tue 16 Jul 2019

News Results

Ti Carro is the 2019 National Calypso Monarch of St Lucia

TC Brown could only manage a third space spot as he fought against nine other contestants in the final of the 2019 St Lucia...

Joseph Charles - Sun 14 Jul 2019

News

Notting Hill Carnival 2019 – residents’ meeting on Monday

Residents and local businesses in west London have chance to find out what’s planned at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival on Monday 15 July. The...

Stephen Spark - Fri 12 Jul 2019

News Results

Crop Over Soca Monarch finalists announced

The National Botanical Gardens will be the venue on Sunday 28 July for the Crop Over Soca Monarch competition. Two honours are up for grabs:...

Joseph Charles - Mon 08 Jul 2019

Carnival News Results

St Lucia Soca Monarch 2019 results, Ricky T retains crown Vye...

St Lucia has a new Groovy Soca Monarch champion in the form of Vye Twizeen with his 2019 contribution Mix Up. However, the Power...

Joseph Charles - Sun 07 Jul 2019

Carnival News

St Paul’s Carnival returns today

Since it started in 1968, Bristol’s St Paul’s Carnival has had more than its fair share of trials and tribulations, but happily it’s back...

Stephen Spark - Sat 06 Jul 2019

News Results

Nine move forward to the St Lucia 2019 Calypso monarch competition

Nine contestants will do battle against reigning monarch TC Brown for the chance to be crowned St Lucia Calypso Monarch 2019. The finals of...

Joseph Charles - Sat 06 Jul 2019

News Results

Vincy Mas 2019 Panorama results

Seven bands competed in the finals of the 2019 Vincy Mas Panorama competition, which was held on Thursday 4 July in Saint Vincent. Only one...

Joseph Charles - Sat 06 Jul 2019

Carnival News

A new showcase for Carnival in London

Trinidadian activist and journalist Claudia Jones shot like a comet through London’s grey skies. Her all-too-brief life blazed a trail that others have followed...

Stephen Spark - Wed 03 Jul 2019

News

Waiting for a wall of wonders on Portobello Road

Walls are having a moment. President Trump believes they’ll make his country great again; computer-users put their trust in electronic firewalls; populist politicians build...

Stephen Spark - Mon 01 Jul 2019

News Travel

CAL celebrates Caribbean Identity at Crop Over

Machel Montano put a Fast Wine into the launch in Barbados of a special Crop Over edition of the Caribbean Identity campaign spearheaded by...

Stephen Spark - Sun 30 Jun 2019

News

Barbados introduces a most excellent honour

Barbadian prime minister Mia Mottley has announced that recipients of the country’s highest award can now be titled ‘The Most Excellent’ as an alternative...

Stephen Spark - Sun 30 Jun 2019

News

Barbados boosts the business of entertainment

As part of Barbados’ National Event Strategy (NES), entertainment licensing rules will be simplified in the run-up to Crop Over, Prime Minister Mia Mottley...

Stephen Spark - Sun 30 Jun 2019

Carnival News

Police reassure Crop Over revellers

Gangsters won’t be allowed to disrupt Crop Over, a Barbados Police chief has pledged. Quoted by Barbados Today, Assistant Commissioner Sylvester Louis said that the...

Stephen Spark - Sat 29 Jun 2019

News Results

Crop Over – bashment soca finalists announced

This year’s 19 semi-finalists in the Yello International Bashment Soca competition have been whittled down to a dozen who will take the battle to...

Joseph Charles - Wed 26 Jun 2019

News Results

St Lucia 2019 Calypso Monarch semi-finalists

The semi-final round of the 2019 St Lucia Calypso Monarch competition will be held this coming Sunday 30 June at the National Cultural Centre,...

Joseph Charles - Wed 26 Jun 2019

News

Mighty Grynner rules the highway

Seven-time Road March winner Mighty Grynner (MacDonald Blenman) is to be given a memorable honour in Barbados when Spring Garden Highway becomes the Mighty...

Stephen Spark - Wed 26 Jun 2019

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Ding Dong releases two new songs ahead of Tobago Carnival 2025

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