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A li’l something for your Carnival tabanca

The tall and short of it - Funny lady Nikki Crosby shed her Granny alter-ego for the Vale breakfast fete as she limed with former Miss Universe, Wendy Fitzwilliam.

So isn’t this just a busy weekend! It’s Valentine’s weekend, New York Fashion Week’s fall/winter shows are in full swing and it’s even the NBA All-Star Weekend. But most importantly – it’s CARNIVAL WEEKEND! And Islandista isn’t there. šŸ˜¦ Booooo… So if the Carnival tabanca has you as bad as it does us, we’ve settled […]

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Monday wear reach!

A selection of the Monday wear seen at the Monday Rocks show. (Photo credit: IslandME Magazine)

Mega Monday! It belong to we! It belong to we! The words of Sanctuary’s massive Crop-Over 2014 hit seem to be ringing truer than ever for Trinidad’s Carnival Monday wear designers after IslandMe Magazine hosted theĀ Monday Rocks the Runway show on Saturday night. It marked the first ever collaborativeā€Ž Monday wear showcase and boldly came […]

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Is Foreday Morning becoming like ‘Monday mas’?

Like night and day? A match up of Foreday Morning costumes from Barbados' Crop-Over and Monday mas outfits from Trinidad Carnival. (All photos Bajantube.com)

With Foreday Morning now officially the biggest event of the Crop-Over festival (46 bands and 21,000 revellers this year), there has been much debate about the direction of the event. Foreday started out as a j’ouvert-type, ‘dutty mas’ street party, a mud-and-paint-and-chocolate alternative to the pretty mas of Kadooment Day. But at some point a […]