Visionary entrepreneur Johnny Mack has transformed the Trinidad Carnival experience through an innovative solution to one of the island’s biggest tourism challenges: severe accommodation shortages ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad– Looking out at the thousands of people gathered on Fantastic Friday, aka Carnival Friday, for a soca concert in the middle of Hasely Crawford Stadium evoked a deep sense of ...

Christmas isn't quite over yet, but Trinidad and Tobago is already in the throes of its Carnival season – that frenetic period of masquerade, soca, celebration, creativity and revelry that some say is ...

As the plane lifted off from the tarmac of JFK airport, the land below began to shrink into patches of greens and browns, adding to the excitement of the tropical adventure that awaited me. Now, I’m ...

On the tiny Caribbean islands of Trinidad & Tobago, Carnival is the truest manifestation of the twin islands’ spirit, past and present. Refashioned from European colonizers’ masquerade balls and used ...

Everyone should experience a Caribbean Carnival (or two), whether it’s a jump up on a small island or a mas (short for “masquerade”) on a larger island. The annual celebrations — many in the spring ...

There's nothing to make you hate the Northern Hemisphere quite like the images emerging from Trinidad tonight--a blaze of color, sweat and drums that coats the small island from end to end. It's ...

A hugely popular Carnival fete appears to have irked many Trinidad and Tobago Carnival lovers. The organisers of Soaka 2017, scheduled for January 29, may have thought they were being social ...