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General Events
Listings: Trinidad
January
- Carnival
season gets under way - mass camps, panyards, calypso tents, fetes
- Eid-ul-Fitr,
Muslim festival marking the end of the Ramadan month of fasting (8)
- Cricket season
begins
February
- Carnival
season continues; Panorama, Chutney Soca Monarch and National Chutney
Monarch competitions
- International
cricket
- Trinidad Open
golf tournaments
- CL Financial
Open golf tournament
March
- Carnival
climax (6 and 7) in Port of Spain and centres across the country
- Turtle-nesting
season (till July) on several north and north-east coast beaches
- International
cricket
- Hindu spring
festival of Phagwa
- Spiritual
Baptist Liberation Shouter Day (30, public holiday)
- Wahoo
Tournament (18, 19)
April
- Point Fortin
Borough Week music, entertainment, street parades (April 30-May 7)
- Hampton Games
athletics meet
- Cycling Grand
Prix, Easter Guineas horse-racing
May
- Caribbean
Amateur Golf Championship
- Festival of La
Divina Pastora, Siparia
- Pan Ramajay,
virtuoso steel band competition for small steel ensembles.
- Trinidad and
Tobago Marathon, Whitsun horse racing Classic
- Carifta Games
athletics meet
- Indian Arrival
Day (30, public holiday)
- Hosay
festival, St James and other centres (Tunapuna, Couva) over three
nights - drumming and glittering tadjahs and dancing moons
- Sugar and
Energy Festival
June
- Caribbean
Amateur Golf Championship
- Labour Day
(19, public holiday)
- Corpus Christi
(22, public holiday)
- Toco Season,
Toco
- Ganga Dashara
river festival, Blanchisseuse
- Football
season gets under way
July
- Teacher's
Scotch Whisky Game Fishing Tournament (1)
- Arima Fest
(music, sport, culture, craft
- Scotia Bank
Cycle Classic, Midsummer Classic (horse racing), Royal Bank Wahoo
Tournament (game fishing)
- Kids' Game
Fishing Tournament (15)
August
- Great Race for
power boats from Trinidad to Tobago
- Emancipation
Day (1, public holiday)
- Football:
Champions Cup
- Independence
Day (31, public holiday)
- Santa Rosa
Festival, Arima (Carib community)
September
- Royal Oak
Derby, Santa Rosa Oaks, Caribbean Champion Stakes (horse racing)
- Republic Day,
marking the country's move to republican status in 1976 (24)
October
- Entertainment
Month, including the annual World Carnival Conference and Trade Fair,
the World Beat Music Festival, and the T&T Music Awards
- Divali, the
Hindu festival of lights, preceded by a season of celebration at the
Divali Nagar site just outside Chaguanas, and by Ramleela, when Hindu
communities re-enact stories from the Ramayana, with music and
costumed dancers (26)
- National Folk
Festival begins (nationwide; dance, drama, music, cuisine) o World
Steel band Festival
- Orchid Society
annual display
November
- Pan Jazz
Festival
- National Pan
Chutney Competition, Chaguanas
- Fun Fish
Tournament (18, 19)
December
- Christmas
season - parties, socialising, end-of-year music and theatre events.
Christmas Day (25), Old Year's Night (31)
- Parang, the
unique Spanish-descended Christmas music of Trinidad.
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