For the first time in 30 years, the man who bears the dark stage name of Shadow will not contribute a single new recording to Carnival celebrations.

It is the biggest contest exclusively for women in the history of calypso and it is already being acclaimed as one of the major events for Carnival 2005.

While music distributors are complaining about the dearth of new works being delivered to retail outlets, pirates are already offering compilations of 2005 soca songs, as evidenced by the arrest yesterday of one such person in the heart of Port of Spain.

Former road March Queen Faye-Ann Lyons got an early birthday present on Thursday night, when she copped three awards at the Copyright Organisation of T&T?s sixth annual Music Awards, at Queen?s Hall, St Ann?s.

St. Lucia's 2004 Calypso Monarch, Janny Williams is dead. The Calypso Queen was killed on Sunday morning when her car veered off the West Coast Road near Anse la Raye and plummeted off an embankment reportedly over 300 ft.

A carnival atmosphere erupted on the quiet Morne Rogue Ground, St George?s, Grenada, on Monday, as a host of T&T soca stars celebrated Caribbean Star Airlines? fourth anniversary. The show attracted hundreds of islanders.

Four-time Calypso Monarch Kelvin Pope, known in the calypso world as the Mighty Duke, stole the limelight on Wednesday night when Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) continued its celebration of Calypso History Month at The Mas Camp Pub.

Bikini-clad dancers in festive head gear gyrate across the TV screen while T-shirt-and-jeans-wearing revelers couple-up in a tight embrace, waving Caribbean flags.

The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians? Organisation has congratulated soca star Iwer George on his newly launched radio station.

The launch of the first community radio station in Point Fortin on Friday night was hailed by the police as the first such event in the borough that was incident-free.