They are easy to spot among the rush of colour of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, their bodies covered in blue and their screams and antics somehow both frightening and fun. They are blue devil ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Shynel Brizan remembers her first Kings and Queens of Carnival competition like it was yesterday. It was 2012. She was 19 years old and still relatively new to the moko ...

In a gem of a show at Efraín López gallery in Tribeca through October 26, Braxton Garneau takes Trinidad's legendary carnival costumes to the next level in his new series of mixed-media works.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad– Looking out at the thousands of people gathered on Fantastic Friday, aka Carnival Friday, for a soca concert in the middle of Hasely Crawford Stadium evoked a deep sense of ...

The great poet and novelist Wilson Harris died exactly one year ago. Or did he? Like one of his characters, Harris has come back. He has returned in the form of a band of moko jumbies — a motley crew ...

Festivities get fierce in this island nation as the Jab Molassie take to the streets. These pitchfork-toting devils—just one type of the many Carnival characters—cover themselves with molasses or ...