Global - Carnival TV has quickly established itself as one of the leading organizations for streaming music entertainment content out of the Caribbean. For those who are unfamiliar with Carnival TV, they are the media broadcast company that has been
Carnival TV - Meeting the Challenge of presenting Caribbean Entertainment and Events to the World
After years of unprofessionalism, bad products and lame excuses - Carnival TV stepped in and showed it could be done. In an exclusive interview the dir
Trinidad Guardian
After the fourth steelband passed the judges during the Carnival Monday Night Steelband Competition in San Fernando, one woman said, “I am still waiting to hear a real band play.” Another said: “Is this all the bands in San Fernando
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Revelers of Mocidade Independente samba school
Tillah Willah
....I’ve been here before.The last time I remember the police being so hognorant at Panorama was when Papa Patos was at the height of his unpopularity. The Guard and Emergency Branch were on a rampage. One scraped my arm and tried to g
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Trinidad & Tobago: Attendance was high on Saturday morning when the National Carnival Commission (NCC) hosted its Carnival Stakeholders Consultation—“Crystallising the Role of the NCC”—at the UTT Auditorium, National Academy for the
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A big lagniappe of Carnival 2013 was the duel over rights in which value creators squared off against value appropriators.
It's been a long time in co
I’ve been advised, by a source with no reason to lie about such things, that some quite draconian fees have been instituted for the coverage of Carnival in 2013.
These fees break out as follows in T&T cash money as the unsuited thugs say…
NCC Fees: Per
Trinidad Express
The Carnival parade is not being streamed on the world wide web by any local media, not even by State-owned CNMG
The National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) yesterday moved to block the station from streaming the Parade of the Ban
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If Port Of Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing has his way there will be competition to the Dimanche Gras show being put on the by national carnival commission on carnival Sunday night. As Melissa Williams tells us, he is upset with the decision to remove t
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz says this year’s Panorama competition will be an exciting year for steelband and will lead to the introduction of Panorama as an international pan competition in 2
by By Rubadiri Victor
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Last week Wednesday the Artists Coalition of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT) launched The Guild of Masters under the patronage of President Prof George Maxwell Richards with the unveili
Trinidad Express
THE Calypso Monarch competition will be held on Carnival Thursday and not the traditional Dimanche Gras Sunday night.
This was disclosed yesterday by recently appointed chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Allison Demas
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february 1975
trinidad carnival
carib tokyo, steel drum orchestra
parade of bands, panorama 1975
queen's park savannah
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The annual D.C. Caribbean Carnival is in serious financial trouble and may not occur this year, organizers say.
City officials say they will not sign off on the Caribbean Car
Read more…I thought some of you might appreciate this really well-written article, that breaks down the history of the steel drum/pan, in clear, concise narration. I hope you all enjoy this reading, if you haven't read it before. Again, I am not going to keep
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...Maybe that is one of the reasons why they no longer command capacity audiences, with the North Stand just over half-full last Saturday night, when the first big band didn't come on stage until a
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Written by TAIWO OLADOKUN
Nigerian Tribune
TAIWO OLADOKUN writes on the synergy between Nigeria and Trinidad aimed at earning millions from carnivals.
The synergy started with the participation of Trinidad and Tobago in the 2011 Abuja Carnival and
Read more…Tobago, W.I.- Chairman of the National Carnival Commission Patrick Arnold has crossed swords with the THA's position of no second carnival for Tobago.
Arnold who served for 12 years as President of Pan Trinbago was recently appointed as head of the na
