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2025 Carnival Dates in the Caribbean, USA, and Canada

Carnival in the Caribbean, Canada, and the USA

2025 Carnival Calendar in the Caribbean, USA, and Canada

Scheduled Carnival Dates

Antiqua (Carnifest)

July, 25th – August, 5th.

Atlanta

May, 24th

Bahamas (Junkanoo)

June 5th – 9th

Barbados (Crop Over)

July, 30th – Aug. 5th

Belize

February, 23rd

Boston

August, 23rd 

Brooklyn (Labor Day)

September, 1st

Cambridge

Date to be posted

Chicago (Windy City)

August, 16th

Columbia (SC)

June, 5th – 8th

Grenada

August, 1st – 12th

Guyana

February, 23rd

Haiti (Kanaval)

March, 4th

Houston

July, 3rd – July, 7th

Jacksonville

August, 23th.

Jamaica (Bacchanal)

April, 23rd – 29th

Las Vegas(Carib Fest)

April, 24th – 27th

Los Angeles

June 19th – 22nd

Miami

October, 4th – 12th

Montreal (Carifiesta)

July, 10th – 13th

New Orleans

Cancelled

London (Notting Hill)

August 23rd – 25th

Orlando

May, 23rd – 25th

St. Croix

January, 3rd – 4th

St. Lucia

July 17th – 23rd

St. Maarten

April, 30th – May 1st

St. Thomas

April, 27th – May 3rd

St. Vincent

July 2nd – 9th

San Diego

Date to be posted

Tampa

April 11th – 13th

Tobago

October 24th – 26th

Toronto (Caribana)

July 31st – August, 4th

Virginia (Carib Fest)

September, 5th – 6th

Washington

Date to be posted

Worcestor, Mass

August, 31st

Trinidad Carnival Dates from 2008 thru 2026

2008 – Feb. 4th & 5th

2009 – Feb. 23rd & 24th

2010 – Feb. 15th & 16th

2011 – March, 7th – 8th

2012 – Feb. 20th & 21st

2013 – Feb. 11th & 12th

2014 – Feb. 3rd & 4th

2015 – Feb. 16th & 17th

2016 – Feb. 8th & 9th.

2017 – Feb. 27th & 28th.

2018 – Feb. 12th & 13th.

2019 – March 4th & 5th.

2020 – Feb. 24th & 25th.

2021 – Feb. 15th & 16th.

2022-Feb.28th & Mar.1st

2023 – Feb. 20th & 21st

2024 – Feb. 12th & 13th

2025 – March 3rd & 4th

2026 – Feb. 16th & 17th

Disclaimer notice: Caribbean Affairs Inc. is not responsible for any inaccuracy for the listings provided above and is not affiliated with any promoters connected with any of the events herein.

currency

What your US dollar is worth in the Caribbean

Exchange Rates

What your US Dollar is Worth in the Caribbean

The following reflects rates paid to individual travelers for Each U.S $1 changed and is an average Central Bank rate per Country

Antigua & Barbuda
Antigua & Barbuda
(E.C. Dollar) - $2.70
Aruba
(Florin) - $1.80
Barbados
Barbados
(Dollar) - $2.02
Belize
Belize
BZD - $2.02
Bermuda
BMD - $1.00
Dominica
Dominica
(E.C. Dollar) - $2.70
Grenada
Grenada
(E.C. Dollar) - $2.70
Guyana
Guyana
(Dollar) - $209.39
Haiti
Haiti
(Gourde) - $138.32
Jamaica
Jamaica
(Dollar) - $153.94
St. Kitts/Nevis
(E.C. Dollar) - $2.70
St. Lucia
(E.C. Dollar) - $2.70
Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
(Dollar) - $6.79
St. Vincent/Grenadines
St. Vincent and Grenadines
(E.C. Dollar) - $2.70
Port of Spain

Some interesting facts about Trinidad & Tobago

To my TnT friends!!! What you need to know about T&T

Some interesting facts about Trinidad & Tobago
  1. The Steelpan: The only new acoustic instrument to be invented and accepted worldwide in the 20th century originated in Trinidad and Tobago.
  2. Trinidad and Tobago is home to the world’s largest traffic roundabout, around the Queen’s Park Savannah.
  3. In 2006, Trinidad and Tobago became the smallest country ever to qualify for the 2006 Football World Cup.
  4. Trinidad and Tobago contestant Ms. Janelle Penny Commissiong was the first Black Miss Universe in 1977.
  5. Trinidad and Tobago’s Brian Charles Lara holds the record for the highest individual score in Test innings (400 not out against England, Antigua 2004). He is also the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century, and a quintuple century in first-class games over the course of a senior career.
  6. Trinidad and Tobago are one of the oldest hydrocarbon producers in the world, with commercial production dating as early as 1908. Trinidad and Tobago is also a major petrochemical hub and is one of the world’s largest exporters of ammonia, ethanol, and liquefied natural gas. The two largest ethanol plants in the world are found in Trinidad.
  7. The Leatherback Turtle: the largest of all living turtles chooses the shores of Trinidad and Tobago as one of its nesting grounds. Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most important leatherback nesting sites.
  8. The Pitch Lake: The Pitch Lake in South Trinidad is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world.
  9. Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace of calypso, a style of Afro-Caribbean music that gained international popularity in the 1950s, primarily through the music of Harry Belafonte.
  10. Trinidad and Tobago Carnival have been consistently ranked as one of the top ten Carnival celebrations in the world. It is popularly known as ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’. The founder of the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s largest street festival, Claudia Jones, also hails from Trinidad and Tobago.
  11. The limbo dance originated as an event that took place at wakes in Trinidad and Tobago but became internationally renowned through the work of Julia Edwards and her dance company in the 1960s.
  12. The oldest rainforest reserve in the Western Hemisphere is located in Tobago. Little Tobago is home to the world’s largest brain coral. Trinidad and Tobago have over 400 species of birds, making it one of the richest birding countries per square mile.
  13. Tobago was the location of Daniel Defoe’s classic Robinson Crusoe. Tobago is also widely believed to be the place Robert Louis Stevenson had in mind when he penned Treasure Island.
  14. On August 1, 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the world’s first country to declare a public holiday in commemoration of the abolition of slavery.
  15. Trinidad and Tobago-born Stokley Carmichael (also known as Kwame Ture) was a member of the United States Civil Rights Movement who rose to prominence as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party. He popularized the term ‘black power’ as a social and political slogan.
  16. The only national to serve as Prime Minister and President of Trinidad and Tobago, ANR Robinson was instrumental in the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during his tenure as Prime Minister from 1986-1991. In 1989, during the 44th session of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Robinson proposed the creation of the court, which was eventually inaugurated in 2002 to hear cases of crimes against humanity.
  17. Trinidad and Tobago’s Dr. Joseph Lennox Pawan achieved international acclaim for the discovery of the transmission of the rabies virus by vampire bats. This led to the development of a vaccine for the virus.
  18. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1878, Eugene Chen left behind a successful career and moved to China where he founded the Peking Gazette. Chen later became the Foreign Minister to four successive governments and the personal adviser to Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of Nationalist China.
  19. The Trinidadian accent ranks 10th on CNN’s top ten sexiest accents in the world.
  20. In 2013, the Trinidad Moruga ‘Scorpion’ Pepper has officially been ranked as the world’s hottest pepper by the Guinness Book of Records.
  21. Trinidad & Tobago is the 6th Country in the world with the most holidays. 17 Holidays. No wonder we came in the Top 10 happiest countries in the world.
  22. Trinidadian-born Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) was the first black person to have a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart and is still the only female instrumentalist to do so. Her hit of 1954, “Let’s Have Another Party”, was the first piano instrumental to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart. She is the only holder of two gold and two silver discs for piano music in Britain and was the first black artist in the UK to sell a million records.

Caribbean Nations and Consulates Listings

Caribbean Nations Consulate Listings

This is the most current listing available. Please contact us if any of this information has changed.

Antigua & Barbuda

Gilbert Antoine Boustany (CG)
25 SE 2nd Avenue, Suite 300
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-381-6762, Fax: 305-381-7908
Email: [email protected]

Bahamas

Ricardo Treco (CG)
Ms. Sandre Greary (deputy)
25 SE 2nd Avenue, Suite 600
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-373-6295, Fax: 305-373-6312
Email: [email protected]

Barbados

Ricardo Treco (CG)
Ms. Sandre Greary (deputy)
25 SE 2nd Avenue, Suite 600
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-373-6295, Fax: 305-373-6312
Email: [email protected]

Belize

Janine Sylvestre – Vega (HCG)
1600 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Suite 904
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Tel/Fax: 305-755-7276
Email: [email protected]

Domonican Republic

Manuel Felipe Almanzar (CG)
Dale Jones (Deputy)
1038 Brickell Avenue, 1st Floor
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-358-3220, Fax: 305-358-3318
Email: [email protected]

Grenada

Warren Newfield (CG)
17198 NW Court Circle
Miami Lakes, FL 33015
Tel: 786-942-0275, Fax: 305-913-1301
[email protected]

Guyana

Ramzan Roshanall (CG)
795 NW 72nd Street, Suite 609
Miami, FL 33150
Tel: 786-235-0431, Fax: 305-389-0537
Email: [email protected]

Haiti

Francois Guillaume (CG)
259 SW. 13th Street
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-859-2003, Fax: 305-854-7441
Email: [email protected]

Jamaica

Oliva Mair (CG)
Dale Jones (Deputy)
25 SE 2nd Avenue, Suite 609
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-374-8431, x 223, Fax: 305-577-4970
Email: [email protected]

Panama

Thomas Guerra (CG)
5775 Blue Lagoon Drive, Suite 200
Miami, FL 26
Tel: 786-238-8964, Fax: 305-447-4142

St. Lucia

Kent Hippolyte (CG) (Dean)
2 Alhambra Plaza, Suite 850
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Tel: 786-502-3351, Fax: 786-502-3356
Email: [email protected]

Suriname

Marsha Renfrum (CG)
6303 Blue Lagoon Drive, Suite 352
Miami, FL 33126
Tel: 305-265-4655, Fax: 305-265-4599
Email: [email protected]

Trinidad & Tobago

Garvin Pettier (Acting)
1000 Brickell Avenue, Suite 800
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-374-2199, Fax: 305-374-3199
Email: [email protected]