In fact. Trinidad’s people want music so badly that they have gone on making it over the years despite organized restrictions. Skin drums were long banned by the British in order to suppress ...

A documentary film directed by French film-makers Daniel Verba and Jean-Jacques Mrejen on the history and development of the steel-drum, said to be the only musical instrument to have been invented in ...

Trinidad and Tobago is set to alter its coat of arms, replacing Christopher Columbus’s ships with steel drums in a move to distance itself from its colonial past.