Music highlights changing culture and trends in Trinidad carnival

The Ultimate Rejects

Recession doh bother we

Promote a fete and you go see

How we go party to the full extreme

And light it up with kerosene

           Ultimate Rejects

As the Republic of Guyana winds down Mashramani celebrations, carnival races to its peak in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in another year when the two festivals overlap.  Today is Carnival Sunday and the grand traditional Dimanche Gras (‘fat Sunday’) Show illuminates the stage in the Savannah tonight.

Carnival is the most powerful cultural tradition in the Caribbean. There are carnivals in Europe, and in Rio (Rio de Janeiro,