St. Lucia Carnival

Following another successful year in 2011, the third annual Piton Soca Starz kicked off Friday May 18 at Double D’s on Jeremie Street. On Thursday May 17, the new Piton Brand Manager Rohan Lovence unveiled the plans for this year’s event to the media. “Saint Lucians over the past two years have been

XS Neo Carnival band breaks new ground this year with the launch of the video and song for the band’s 2012 portrayal “Legend – Tribute to the Pioneers”.  The video was produced by the young and exciting group, Untitled 51, and the song was produced by Francis “Leebo” De Lima, with lyrics by Francis

St. Lucia has a new Calypso Monarch 2011. Menell of South Calypso Tent captured the crown with 762 points for her rendition of “Tomas & Tom Chou” in the first round and “Rebellious Youth” in the second. Second place also went to South Calypso Tent. Nintus scored 747 points performing “In St. Chou” a

It was almost 4 in the morning but the massive crowd at Beausejour had enough energy to “behave mad ‘n off” as Ricky T was crowned St. Lucia’s 2011 Party Soca Monarch. This is Ricky T’s second crown for the 2011 season, as he won the Groovy Soca Monarch this past Thursday. The performer has…

For the first time ever St. Lucia crowned two Panorama champions, becoming only the second in the world to do so. After two years hiatus, Panorama was back on Friday July 15, setting the Beausejour Cricket Grounds alight with heart stopping arrangements, beautiful choreography and colourful costumes

The following statement was issued by Miss Consuelo Dupal who placed second in the recent St. Lucia Carnival Queen Pageant after concerns we’re raised about the originality of her Talent performance. I first saw the performance when I attended the National Queen Contest in St. Kitts. At the time I t

The show began promptly with preliminary judging of King & Queen of the band. The big costumes then took to the stage in a competitive display of carnival creativity. They were followed by the groovy party segment, featuring sixteen artistes. The show ended almost just ater 3pm with a huge audience

(Castries, July 4, 2011) Following a successful staging of calypso semi-finals on Sunday July 3, 2011, nine calypsonians have been chosen to compete against reigning calypso monarch Invader for the 2011 calypso crown. The semi-final competition at the National Cultural Centre featured eighteen calyp

The Soca Village International, Take over Tent and D Soca Lypso Review have instructed their attorneys to file an injunction against the staging of the 2011 Calypso Semi-Finals, scheduled to be held on Saturday July 2nd. The tents are deeply concerned about the unconstitutional management of the sea

Yes Folks it’s official. At a meeting which took place at the St. Lucia Tourist Board on Monday 20, June 2011, Carpet Media SLU was told that it would not be able to broadcast St. Lucia Carnival 2011 events live via Scruffy TV, and that another Media House had been awarded the contract. The meeting…