Digital payments have entered a sustained growth phase in Trinidad and Tobago, fundamentally transforming how locals and visitors experience major cultural celebrations.
The idea of Carnival, the spark of the individual, rebellious, expressed as boldly inventive creation still catches fire.
There is likely to be a need for sex re-education to deprogram children who see sex as a wrestling match.
Photographers covering Carnival-related events are perceived to be getting a free ride while profiting significantly from covering shows and parties.
Visa transactions during Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2025 were driven by debit cards.
Managing Carnival using the same structure that was first devised 68 years ago under the CDC seems particularly misguided.
Visa and its local partners have made significant investments to enable local merchants to securely and efficiently accept payments on the world’s largest payment network.
Carnival needs is a serious rethinking of its entrenched competition economy.
Carnival might well be in shouting range of a billion dollar industry even before serious action is taken to monetise it.
“AI is not your friend or your best friend. It is a tool like anything else.” – Carl “Beaver” Henderson.
The State’s hand on the balance of Carnival is heavy, and its lazy insistence on spending taxpayer money to foster pointless rivalry is demonstrably destructive.
Over the next ten hours every band will pass through every Starting Point along the route, with the whole parade stopping at noon for a lunch break of one hour.
Above: Covers of the magazine published in 1987, 1986, 1978 and 1979. Photographs of the magazine and its spreads are…
By any of these measures, the recording, codification and accessibility of the history of all aspects of Carnival since the first street parades of 1838 has been appalling.
“I have buried literally hundreds of Elder friends who are amongst the greatest Geniuses this country has ever known. Many unsung and in poverty.”
