In the weeks preceding my trip to Grenada to celebrate Spicemas 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris – amid her ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket – became the subject of a kind of Birtherism ...

A cloak of black oil was my passage to deliverance. When I covered myself in oil to participate in Grenada’s J’ouvert, a central aspect of the country’s Spicemas celebration, it was nothing short of a ...

In this essay, entertainment news editor Kaitlyn McNab recounts her transformative experience playing mas for the first time as a participant in Grenada’s Spicemas, the island’s annual Carnival ...

Ask anyone from Grenada and they’ll tell you straight “we play mas but we don’t play – we play jab!” You may have gone to parties on other islands, but you haven’t fete until you’ve headed to Jab Jab ...

The tri-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique is welcoming back its world-famous Spicemas carnival in August this year. Back after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Spicemas ...

Jason deCaires Taylor's newest sculptures celebrate the Grenadian Spicemas festival. The sculptures also serve as artificial reefs for marine life to cling to. Art museums have never done much for me.