Two-time Chutney and Calypso Monarch, Roger ‘Young Bill Rogers’ Hinds is back at it again as he competes in next week’s Chutney and Calypso Monarch competitions hoping to bag hat tricks in both ...

Their forefathers were shipped to far-off lands by a cruel regime, as indentured labourers. About 150 years later, their descendants, although free from shackles, have not forgotten the pain and ...

Last week saw the height of carnival in Trinidad and Tobago: J’ouvert, Ol’ Mas, Carnival Mon-day and the end of the festival on Carnival Tuesday. In Guyana things had wound down the previous week.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has honoured her promise of a national award for deceased Indo-music singer Anil Bheem.

A musical stew made up of the deeply flavorful ingredients of the wildly different styles of Soca and Chutney music, which incorporates Hindi lyrics and Indian instruments most typically the dholak, ...

As judges in the Power Soca and Groovy Soca contests we are clear in our minds what we are looking for. Nothing that is calypso or remotely resembles that genre gets past us. I am not a chutney soca ...