Michael “Tano” Mon­tano’s Car­ni­val 2025 re­leas­es have been heat­ing up the air­waves. The mega-hit Co­coa Tea by Kes is at the top of the list with his oth­er re­leas­es, En­er­gy andmHigh­er Pow­er by Mi­cal Te­ja, One Piece by GBM Nu­tron, as well as Machel Mon­tano and Davi­do’s Fling it Up, all cre­at­ing mo­men­tum.

St Lu­cia Jazz and Arts Fes­ti­val 2025 of­fi­cial­ly launched on Thurs­day at The Pavil­ion on the Ramp at Rod­ney Bay on Thurs­day.

Award­ed Ju­nior Sports­woman of the Year (2024) by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee, 17-year-old Zuri Fer­gu­son is mak­ing waves in the in­ter­na­tion­al swim­ming are­na. Fer­gu­son has been a mul­ti­ple-time cham­pi­on at events like the CC­CAN and CARIF­TA Cham­pi­onships, ex­celling in the 100m back­stroke event.

Dr Rad­i­ca Ma­hase has been a his­to­ri­an and an ed­u­ca­tor for 29 years. Cur­rent­ly, she is a se­nior lec­tur­er in his­to­ry at the Col­lege of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Ap­plied Arts of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Den­zil Coutain’s melo­di­ous tunes are a blend of ca­lyp­so, reg­gae and soul with afro-in­fused RnB, cre­at­ing a unique and sig­na­ture sound all his own.

There was no short­age of glitz and glam­our when Car­ni­val Cat­walk: Where Fash­ion Meets Car­ni­val pre­miered at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my of Per­form­ing Arts on Wednes­day.

La­dy La­va’s provoca­tive lyrics have be­come an an­them for women. A mes­sage de­liv­ered through a non-tra­di­tion­al for­mat with the cat­a­lyst be­ing the grow­ing genre of zess mu­sic with its raw, un­apolo­getic en­er­gy.

Dulce María Loy­naz re­mains an enig­mat­ic fig­ure in Cuban let­ters, a writer whose lega­cy is both pro­found and strange­ly mut­ed. Born in Ha­vana in 1902, she lived through some of the most tur­bu­lent decades in Cu­ba’s his­to­ry, yet her work re­mains cu­ri­ous­ly re­moved from the overt­ly po­lit­i­cal nar­ra­tives that de­fined many of her con­tem­po­raries.

Women in sports have made in­cred­i­ble strides over the past few decades, break­ing bar­ri­ers and set­ting records that were once deemed un­at­tain­able. From the fields of foot­ball to the courts of ten­nis to the track, no­table women have risen in the ranks, ex­celling in their re­spec­tive sports, cham­pi­oning gen­der equal­i­ty, and gar­ner­ing buy-in for fe­male sports.

Clyde Pa­trong, who goes by the so­bri­quet Lord Have Mer­cy, took top ho­n­ours at the in­au­gur­al Va­len­cia Parang Day which took place last month. The event cul­mi­nat­ed with a prize giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny on the eve of the Feast of Epiphany, Jan­u­ary 5.

T&T artistes took the top spots at the Queen of Queens Ca­lyp­so Com­pe­ti­tion staged on De­cem­ber 30 by Montser­rat Arts Coun­cil as a high point to the is­land’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions which end­ed on Jan­u­ary 1.

The Bo­cas Lit Fest has launched Term II of its Bo­cas Acad­e­my, a mul­ti-lev­el cur­ricu­lum of writ­ing work­shops and mas­ter­class­es de­signed to de­vel­op au­thors at every stage of their ca­reers.