What's on across the Caribbean

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• 25 Jan 05 Feb

  Sailing & Regattas | Grenada & Carriacou

  19th Annual Grenada Sailing Festival - 

  "27-31 Jan, the Port Louis Racing Series, Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, St George's and 03-05 Feb, the Scotiabank Work Boat Regatta at Grand Anse Beach"

• 29 Jan 22 Feb

  Carnivals & Festivals | Dominica

  Dominica Carnival Season - 

  "29 Jan, National Parade and the official opening of the Mas Domnik carnival season. Carnival Monday and Tuesday on 20 & 21 Feb are public holidays with colourful costume displays, steelband music, street parties, parades with calypso music and great Caribbean party atmosphere. The main events for carnival are: 08 Feb, Ole Mass and Sensay Festival. 13 Feb, the Lagoon Street Jam. 15 Feb, Pan and Barbecue festival. 16 Feb, Stardom King of the Tent. 17 Feb, National Queen Show. 18 Feb, National Calypso Finals for Calypso King or Queen of Carnival. 19 Feb, Kiddies and Mini Carnival. 20 Mar, Jouvert morning jump-up, Old Mas Parade and T-Shirt Band Parade. 21 Feb, Costume Parade and Last Lap. 22 Feb, Tiwal Vaval, end of carnival with the ceremonial burial or burning of Vaval, King of Carnival."

• 07 Feb

  British Virgin Islands

  Bomba’s Full Moon Party - 

  Bomba Shack, Apple Bay, Tortola

• 10 Feb 25 Feb

  Music | Trinidad

  Trinidad Carnival Season - 

  "Main events leading up to and during Carnival mainly take place in or around Queens Park Savannah (QPS) in Port of Spain (POS): Panorama events: 10 Feb, National Semi Finals Single Pan Bands, Larry Gomes Stadium, Arima. 12 Feb, National Junior Panorama Finals, QPS. 13 Feb, Arima Panorama, Larry Gomes Stadium, Arima. 18 Feb, National Panorama Finals -Medium & Large Conventional Bands, QPS. Trinidad Carnival main events: 11 Feb, Red Cross Kiddies Carnival. QPS. Calypso Fiesta at Skinner Park, San Fernando.13 Feb, Junior Calypso Monarch Finals and Limbo Finals, Calypso Clash. 14 Feb, Senior Kings Semi-Finals/Junior Queens Finals & Conventional Individuals, QPS. Rapso Explosion, NAILS Ampitheatre, St James. 15 Feb, Calypsonians Welfare Fundraiser, Paddock, QPS. Senior Individuals/Traditional/Fancy Sailors Mas Competition, Victoria Square, POS. Stick Fighting finals, tba. 16 Feb, Kaisorama (Ex-Tempo Finals), Grand Stand, QPS. 17 Feb, Senior Queens Semi-Finals/Junior Kings Finals & Conventional Individuals, QPS. Canboulay Riots Re-Enactment, Piccadilly Greens, POS. Dragon Festival parade through POS. Traditional Mas Characters parade through POS. International Soca Monarch & Groovy Soca Finals (Fantastic Friday), tba. 18 Feb, Junior Parade of the Bands (Kiddies Carnival), Lower St Vincent Street, POS. 19 Feb, Nostalgia Parade of Traditional Bands, Piccadilly Greens to Adam Smith Square, POS. Dimanche Gras with King & Queens of Carnival and National Calypso Monarch Finals, QPS. 20 Feb, CARNIVAL MONDAY all areas with main events in Port of Spain: Jouvert at 4am all areas including Downtown, South Quay, POS. Parade of Bands all areas. Pan on de Road-Pan/Mas at Victoria Square and Downtown, Monday Night Mas at Victoria Square. 21 Feb, CARNIVAL TUESDAY all areas with main events: Parade of Bands through streets, Pan on de RoadPan/Mas at Victoria Square and streets, Las Lap, Western Main Road. 25 Feb, Champs of Steel Plus, post carnival show, QPS. Please note venues and dates may be subject to change therefore please check with the National Carnival Commission of Trinidad & Tobago for updates."

• 11 Feb 12 Feb

  Sports | Barbados

  Waterman Festival - 

  "Annual event hosted by founder Brian Irie Man Talma, a former professional windsurfer who created the event to showcase the island's beach culture. Includes windsurfing, surfing, kite surfing, fishing, long distance swimming, paddle surfing, beach cricket and conch shell blowing competitions. This years theme is Beach Culture Art and is inspired by Brians trip to the Maldives in 2011 where he spent a month painting, before heading to Mexico and Germany as part of his Barbados Beach Culture Tour. The Waterman Festival takes place on deAction Beach at Silver Sands and kicks-off with a stand-up paddle from the Crane to deAction Beach."

• 12 Feb 22 Feb

  Carnivals & Festivals | St Barthélemy

  Carnival - 

  "Costumed street parades in Gustavia starting with schoolchildren on 12 Feb with the Carnival School Parade, culminating on 21 Feb with the Mardi Gras parade in Gustavia and 22 Feb, Mercredi des Cendres (Ash Wednesday) when Vaval, the spirit of French Caribbean Carnival, is taken to Shell Beach in a procession of revellers dressed in black and white, and burned."

• 20 Feb - 21 Feb

  Carnivals & Festivals | Grenada & Carriacou

  Carriacou Carnival - 

  with calypso competitions, Shakespeare Mas and costumed street parades

• 22-Feb

  Carnivals & Festivals | St Lucia

  Independence Day - 

  33rd anniversary with parades and concerts

• 24 Feb 26 Feb

  Sailing & Regattas | Tobago

  Tobago Carnival Regatta - 

  Also dubbed A Festival of Wind with small yachts and traditional work boats (bum boats) from the region competing. The Tobago event also includes the popular Air Shows at Pigeon Point by both local and international windsurfers and kite surfers (they have dubbed the area the Wind Hole). The classic yacht regatta section has now moved to Trinidad and will take place 09-12 Feb in Chaguaramas as the Trinidad Carnival Regatta.