An icon in Caribbean music, a legend within the calypso art form and a powerful force in shaping calypso's up-tempo descendant soca, Winston "Shadow" Bailey died at Mount Hope Hospital, St. Joseph… By ...

A festival created in honor of Costa Rican calypso legend Walter “Mr. Gavitt” Ferguson will be celebrated July 5 to 18 in his hometown of Cahuita, on the southern Caribbean coast. Organized by various ...

If you're a dog owner and a gardening aficionado, you may have received an unsettling e-mail recently warning you of a popular kind of fertilizing mulch that's made from cocoa bean shells. The shells, ...

Announcing a special appearance by the son of Calypso Legend, “The Roaring Lion”, at the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of SWFL Thursday, June 30th at 7:00pm. The son of famous Calypso Music ...

Regarded by many as a national treasure and goodwill ambassador for Limon and Costa Rica, Walter “Gavitt” Furgeson passed away this Saturday. If you were in Cahuita in the 70’s or 80’s you may have ...

On Tuesday, April 25, 2023, the three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte passed away at 96. The father-of-four was at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ...

(Trinidad Guardian) A concert was scheduled to be held next month to celebrate the 75th birthday of calypso icon Explainer (Winston Henry). “It was supposed to be his diamond jubilee. Would you ...

After half a century of service, first as a minesweeper during the war, then as the Gozo ferry boat and most famously as Jacques Cousteau's research vessel for 46 years, the Calypso is now being ...

In the part of the world Rolly Gray comes from, if you want a career in music, you’d better be good–and tough. “Trinidad is the land of calypso,” Gray says of his home country. “If you’re not good ...

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 ...