When most people think of Trinidad Carnival, they picture the bright costumes, the infectious soca beats, and the endless ...

What Trinidad does have is carnival—a centuries-old blowout reputedly so wild and intense that it makes Mardi Gras look like a Veterans' Day parade. I had a reason beyond hedonism for making the ...

Devotees of Trinidad Carnival study the season for sport. This means that we take meticulous, scholarly note of every single thing about the Caribbean’s biggest annual bacchanal: which food was ...

CLAUDETTE WARNER’S world was a swirling tapestry of colour and imagination, her small hands wielding a brush like a maestro ...