Barbados Carnival: Color, Costumes, ... Grand Kadooment (Carnival) in Barbados is August 3, 2009 Colorful costumes, music competitions, crowning of kings and queens, and round-the-clock dancing & partying.  That’s Barbados Kadooment, which has been ramping up in energy for four weeks and has one week to go, reaching its frenzied,...

In Barbados a Carnival Timetable Prevail... I’m at my first Trinidad Carnival and from what I’ve seen so far — the children’s carnival and a steel pan competition  — it’s a whirl of color, music, dance, competitions, and fun all occurring at typically inefficient Caribbean speed. Did I say...