Trinidad & Tobago: “Arima” in Kiddies Carnival  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“Arima — which means both ‘place of the beginning’ and ‘water’ — is an indigenous Amerindian place name for what is now a large town in eastern Trinidad”: Alice Yard blogs about its children’s Carnival masquerade band, which “attempts to bring these two definitions together”.