News

No one was ever Shipwrecked like this

As a rule of thumb, never get shipwrecked. The roof leaks and the food isn’t always served hot. Something we were probably all (implicitly)...

Katie Segal - Wed 21 Aug 2019

Omnia, all the mas you need

Before we talk about Omnia, I have to ask the question I think has many people wondering: what happened to Euphoria? EUPHORIA ceased operating in...

Joseph Charles - Tue 20 Aug 2019

Feature News

Ode to Carnival

Why do I love carnival? Let me count the ways... I love carnival because of the incredible buzz you get from chipping through the streets,...

Joseph Charles - Mon 19 Aug 2019

News Soca People

Fakekou, Trini To The Bone

KOU, aka Sterling Callender, is a die-hard, Trini-to-the-bone, soca artist. This performer’s passion is to simply make soca music and perform soca music, so...

Joseph Charles - Mon 19 Aug 2019

Feature News

It may be a PURE LIME, but it’s all about the...

Pure Lime has been around as long as people have been rubbing chocolate onto their bodies at Notting Hill Carnival. As the original chocolate...

Katie Segal - Sun 18 Aug 2019

Tears Mas presents for Notting Hill Carnival 2019 – Mane

Tears Mas has been on a long and exciting journey over the past nine years, since its inception in 2010. It’s become known as...

Joseph Charles - Sun 18 Aug 2019

Helena B is on top with In Between

Helena B is the new Soca Queen of the UK. Helena secured the prestigious ACASA Groovy Soca Monarch title for Soca In Between at...

Stephen Spark - Sat 17 Aug 2019

Kes the Band hits the Beach in South Florida

Whatever you were doing at 2am Eastern Standard Time on 29 June 2019, you should have stopped, packed a bag and caught a plane,...

Lynette Ametewee - Thu 15 Aug 2019

Soca storms on to the calypso stage

Back in times you knew what to expect from the ABC London Calypso Tent. It was always good fun when the rum and Carib...

Stephen Spark - Thu 15 Aug 2019

Hotwax presents for Notting Hill Carnival 2019, Mother Nature’s Elements

Founded by Dennis George in 1979, Hotwax originally provided DJ services for mas bands in Notting Hill Carnival. In 1993 they became a mas...

Katie Segal - Tue 13 Aug 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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