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.

Travelling across this South American region - through Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana - you savour African, Dutch, British, and 'Hindustani' cultures fusing into one living, swaying rhythm ...

Professor Emeritus at The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Trinidad campus, Gordon Rohlehr, who spent much of his life writing and educating people about calypso music, died on January 29 at the ...