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, ...

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 ...

I think the Bermuda Calypso Festival is going to be a very successful event.”As part of the festival several of Bermuda’s musicians will be inducted into the Bermuda Musical Hall of Fame including ...

Harry Belafonte, a transformational figure in American entertainment and activism, died at the age of 96 at home in Manhattan on April 25. The figurehead in popularizing calypso in America in the mid- ...

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 ...

Under the Trees at the Hotel Normandie, St Ann's, is one of the places one will witness the reunion of David Rudder and Pelham Goddard when the hotel presents the Pelham Goddard Roots Experience on ...

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 ...

Little more than a week after a tragic accident took the life of venerated calypsonian Conqueror, the calypso world has lost another celebrated stalwart, the two-time monarch, Mighty Striker, who came ...

PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - The black-clad old man crept gingerly onto stage wearing a mournful expression, more funeral director than musical legend. Sign up here. Then Shadow, a Calypso legend, jolts ...

THE BIG “REGGAE-CARIFEST” concert, which takes place today at the Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, reads like a “Who’s Who” of reggae, calypso and soca. Under the theme “Spirit of Unity,” the show ...