Tony Fraser, a son of the soil, had produced a wonderful piece about the history of our Carnival that was featured on the BBC. The article is entitled "The True Cradle of Trinidad Carnival".
Here is an excerpt from the article to wet your inquisitive nature:
"Today, the empty soca jam is representative of where we are getting to, because we have unconsciously taken on the interpretation of others of what the carnival should be about: wine back and jam; meaningless beach wear and the limiting of the great steelband invention to the margins of the festival as we allow the electronic sounds, the technology created by others, to take over the mas."
