This Caribbean Space

Tag: Jamaica Carnival

  • The Rise of the Carnival Influencer

    ,

    Note: Published in February of 2023. At the time I wanted a local paper to ask and answer the following: can influencer marketing increase Trinidad and Tobago’s tourist arrivals? The answer seems to be yes, but there is a concern that the opportunity is not being seized.  February 19, 2023 – Business Guardian  Tracey Lyons-White…

  • Dancehall vs Soca

    , , ,

    There’s a conversation that takes place in Jamaica about Dancehall versus Soca very regularly. And that conversation gets very heated around Jamaica Carnival. It’s a hard conversation for me to listen to, because having lived in Jamaica – I studied at UWI, Mona – I hear the xenophobia in the comments. Too often when Jamaican…