The Rid­dim and Steel Fes­ti­val at the John Cu­pid Car­ni­val Vil­lage, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, fea­tured four steel­bands—D’ Vet­er­ans Pan En­sem­ble from Care­nage; TTPS Po­lice Steel Or­ches­tra; Road­Block Steel Or­ches­tra from Trou Macaque, Laven­tille; Phoenix Steel Or­ches­tra from Bel­mont and Hands of Rhythm.

Young mas­quer­aders, in­clud­ing the reign­ing Ju­nior Queen of Car­ni­val, are bring­ing some his­to­ry to this year’s Ju­nior Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tions with their all-in­clu­sive pre­sen­ta­tion, Trib­ute to Great Mas­men, from the Clas­six Pro­duc­tions mas camp.

One of the hottest and most pop­u­lar per­form­ers of Car­ni­val 2025, Yung Bred­da (Akhen­aton Lewis), was not al­lowed to en­ter Fete Roy­al at Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege last Sat­ur­day, in time for his ap­point­ed ap­pear­ance time dur­ing Kes The Band’s set around 10.30 pm. In­stead, the singer of The Great­est Bend Over was oblig­ed to go to an­oth­er event first. He even­tu­al­ly re­turned around mid­night.

T&T has long been a na­tion of pi­o­neers—vi­sion­ar­ies who leave their mark both at home and across the globe. Danielle Jones-Hunte is one such trail­blaz­er. With a ca­reer span­ning con­ti­nents and in­dus­tries, she is now set to take on a new chal­lenge as Vice Pres­i­dent of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Ex­ter­nal Af­fairs (C&EA) for the Mid­dle East and North Africa (MENA) at BP plc (for­mer­ly The British Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny plc and BP Amo­co plc), a role she will as­sume on March 1, 2025.

Grena­di­an-born artiste Bla­ka Dan (Wren­roy Ogiste) grew up in the streets of En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, at a time when gang vi­o­lence was promi­nent in that “hot spot” com­mu­ni­ty.

Solset Pre­mi­um Drinks In­clu­sive Fete was held at the base of San Fer­nan­do Hill on Sat­ur­day night.

T he vi­brant en­er­gy of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val is set to come alive in South Flori­da on March 15, with the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed Ole Mas event—an au­then­tic cel­e­bra­tion of cre­ativ­i­ty, cul­ture, and Caribbean tra­di­tion.

In ad­di­tion to a record of aca­d­e­m­ic ex­cel­lence and crick­et­ing ac­co­lades, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas has al­so earned the rep­u­ta­tion of hav­ing one of cen­tral Trinidad’s pre­mier all-in­clu­sive Car­ni­val events.

Lila Nan­hu-Ali’s jour­ney in­to the skin­care in­dus­try has been shaped by a blend of aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment, pro­fes­sion­al ex­pe­ri­ence, and an en­dur­ing pas­sion for aes­thet­ics. Now 34, she has spent the past five years build­ing a beau­ty and well­ness busi­ness she launched in Jan­u­ary 2020.

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Genevieve Hadeed has been re-elect­ed as pres­i­dent of the Syr­i­an Lebanese Women’s As­so­ci­a­tion (SLWA) as the or­gan­i­sa­tion em­barks on its mile­stone 75th year of ser­vice to the peo­ple of T&T.

Dancer, chore­o­g­ra­ph­er, prin­ci­pal, ed­u­ca­tor and per­former at the core, Brid­gette Wil­son is no stranger to a big stage. De­scrib­ing per­form­ing along­side Machel Mon­tano at St Mary’s Col­lege Fete with the Saints as “the best day of my life,” she brought down the house with a pas­sion­ate ren­di­tion of Mon­tano’s 2025 song, Pardy, leav­ing fete go­ers chant­i­ng “Brid­gette! Brid­gette!” long af­ter she ex­it­ed the stage.