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Every year Trini vibes getting bigger and bigger over there...from soca to mas to fete ..this is just one article but I see more and more everyday leading up to Jamaica Carnival Link Text

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See wha ah mean

Why are u riling up the yardies?

In reply to sgtdjones

what you talking about willis

In reply to problemjay

You know how much crap you're chatting. Carnival in Jamaica started on the Mona campus. Input came from Trinis, Bajans, Guyanese and folks from the Windward and Leeward islands.

Read and learn

In reply to Chrissy
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Teach them Chrissy. I remember that time in the fifties and sixties very well.




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In reply to Chrissy

Reading is fundamental, this time absorb what is being said

The Carnival concept in Jamaica like in other Caribbean islands is a model of T&T Carnival. You want to argue that point Chrissy?

In reply to Ewart

You just as bad as her, failed to read and absorb what is being said but quick to jump in for ah wine in d fete

Wait Wait! this is the last comment, let me school Professor Chrissy and her cheerleader Ewart Aye Professor take a read

In reply to problemjay
Leh me tell yuh something - when Carnival left the campus it came via New York - and the Caribbean Carnival. Talk to men like Charlie Simpson who started it and brought folks like Rootsman and Shadow. Don't talk to di revisionists who captured it later. You cyan tell me a damned ting about what I lived.

In reply to Chrissy

Wrong, the Jamaican Carnival as we know it today (not one or two Calypso shows you went when you were in a teen in the 1950's) started in the late 1980's . Yes started by UWI Caribbean students and driven by Byron Lee (who himself had travelled many times to Trini in his career), however the concept was taken from T&T Carnival. That is the truth, deal with it

In reply to problemjay

so ya gats to start a fight with em neighbors huh?

In reply to problemjay

Byron Lee stole it from Charlie Simpson -you een know crap and the Observer won't change dat.

In reply to Chrissy

Leff him. The Observer story he is quoting is not either complete or accurate.

I am reminded of two sayings:

1. If fish come from river bottom and tell you say alligator down dey, believe him."

2. "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him."

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In reply to Ewart

Dat simple

I think that Carnival will eventually develop in Jamaica as a big yearly festival,when it does it may overtake TT in terms of visitors from Europe and North America.Already Notting Hill Carnival is the biggest street festival in Europe,I remember when it used to be a people beating pan dressed up like Sailors,look now.

The facts are below, but yet some in here still want to argue

In reply to granite

This is how I know you not a real Trini but instead a British boy. Carnival in Trinidad is culture, its a public holiday, its not just two days or one day festival like In London or Jamaica or other places, instead its a season of culture. Carnival in Trinidad is more than just costume, instead its a weekly calendar of events featuring steelpan, fetes and more. Carnival is engrained in TnT culture for more than a century. Its a part of being Trini, its a national holiday, there is no school, you do not go to work, its what many look forward to every year, a cancellation of Carnival can cause a damn riot in Trini.

The reason why T&T Carnival will continue to always attract more visitors than other Carnivals who model Trinidad is because visitors understand the authenticity is in Trini

In reply to problemjay
I understand what yuh say,for authenticity no one will ever equal us.I have loads of family and friends who's experience is very deep into Carnival culture in San Fernando,Guiness Cavaliers once one of the best Pan sides in TT had three of my first cousins.My sisters always played mass with Peter Cavahlo,I was young but I know.What I was trying to say is Jamaica's ability to attract the tourist may count in their favour,you know only too well how commercialism may change things,in England same may happen.What is worrying in England is the crime,but that is getting less at our August Carnival.

In reply to granite

Have you ever attended?

It lacks organic development.

In reply to Chrissy
No I have never visited,but I am assuming that on the grounds of Jamaica's tourist industry it may take off.Jamaica's name is emblazoned on people's memories for several reasons and that may help.