GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana's government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves.

A February 9th letter in Stabroek News `Lyrics of Junior Calypso Monarch were vulgar’ and elsewhere, covering the Junior Calypso Competition, cited some examples of “vulgarity” in one of the songs. In ...

Journalist Tony Fraser invited me on Power 102 Radio this week to discuss ‘’Language in Calypso,” in conjunction with Calypso History Month. I happily accepted his invitation, since one of the ...

Twelve-year-old Rika Johnson won the calypso competition in the 2016 Antigua Carnival Solemn-faced, schoolgirl Rika Johnson reveals the lyrics to her latest song, an ode to the double-edged sword of ...

October is Calypso History month and it is usually a good time to assess the current state of the art form and to reflect on the tremendous contribution it has made to the cultural development of ...