“Carnival is big business. Fetes costing five hundred dollars and up, mas costumes that are equivalent to a house or car payment, is it all worth bankrupting yourself?”: Coffeewallah [1] explains why, national festival or not, she won't be participating in this year's Trinidad and Tobago Carnival.
Trinidad & Tobago: Curmudgeonly Carnival
· Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
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