The famous and often-cited Canboulay riots which took place in Port of Spain at Carnival 1881 were in fact quite minor to the serious and widespread clashes which marred the carnival in San Fernando ...

Carnival in Trinidadand elsewherehas always been a site for conflict: conflicts between different class and ethnic groups about how the festival should be celebrated and what it meant, socially, ...

One of the largest street theatres for the Carnival season, the annual Canboulay Riots re-enactment, took place on Carnival Friday morning at Piccadilly Greens, Port of Spain. Canboulay, or “Cannes ...

Every year, Carnival lovers the world over flock to Trinidad to indulge in revelry infused with an explosion of colourful costumes, wanton revelry, soca and calypso. While most mas fanatics are ...

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It is the day which will have to continue infusing the Trinidad carnival with meaning, to avoid it becoming that meaningless festival in April that certain members of the carnival fraternity are ...

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