As Guyana celebrates Republicanism with Mashramani and the 2014 Trinidad Carnival moves into high gear, the greatest calypsonian of all time, The Mighty Sparrow, is awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s ...

What it is: These energetic Caribbean styles are characterized by continuous hip-rolling and thrusting; the waist-burning movements are often incorporated into Zumba workouts. What it sounds like: ...

Miriam Bassett-Tucker was one of the island’s best-known calypso dancers in the 1950s. Today, few of the younger generation know her name. Atlantic Publishing House is looking to change that. She’s ...

Hardball is the spirit suited for these times even if he says so. He epitomises the ebb and tide of this day; he is an embodiment of the daily swirl of events, activities and news. Consider naked news ...

There was always music playing in her home growing up, and Cybele Pena remembers always moving to it. A lifelong dancer, Pena is inspired and grounded by the movement of her body to music and shares ...

The temperature was hot, the food spicy and the dancing had a calypso flair at the second annual Treasure Coast Jerk Festival at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center. And like the Caribbean American ...

Gayle, Bravo and captain Darren Sammy were spotted grooving to typical "Calypso" music playing on one of their laptops. The West Indies players rushed from the dug-out and were seen celebrating on the ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the bossa nova, but let us not allow that occasion to overshadow ­calypso and mambo, two other types of music from the Americas that were considerably more ...

The queen of Trinidadian carnival is 76 years old, has survived abuse, cancer and two heart attacks, but remains as energetic and feisty as ever – “They say I reign too long, forgetting my ...

What it is: These energetic Caribbean styles are characterized by continuous hip-rolling and thrusting; the waist-burning movements are often incorporated into Zumba workouts. What it sounds like: ...