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.

“I want to bring Car­ni­val to the run­ways!” This is the as­pi­ra­tion that en­tre­pre­neur San­dra Hor­datt hopes to achieve for her de­sign­er busi­ness called San­disAn­gels. Hor­datt has been trans­form­ing the world of Car­ni­val cos­tumes for over 20 years, and her cre­ativ­i­ty, re­silience, and faith have pro­pelled her to launch the brand dur­ing one of the most chal­leng­ing pe­ri­ods in mod­ern his­to­ry, the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Trinidad Car­ni­val, de­scribed by Kan­di King as “the Mec­ca of all Car­ni­vals,” can be found per­fect­ly placed at the cul­tur­al in­ter­sec­tion of beau­ti­ful fash­ions, in­tri­cate de­signs, deep-root­ed his­to­ries, and pow­er­ful mu­sic. Al­though this fes­ti­val has in­spired many in­ter­na­tion­al car­ni­vals across the globe, it has yet to find its foot­ing in tele­vi­sion me­dia, un­til now. “Car­ni­val Cat­walk”, which pre­mièred on Jan­u­ary 9, 2025, is a new re­al­i­ty fash­ion com­pe­ti­tion show that brings all the el­e­ments of Car­ni­val to­geth­er, head­lined with cut­ting-edge Caribbean fash­ion, be­ing broad­cast on Flow across the re­gion, CNC3 and TVJ (in Ja­maica).

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.

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.

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-born Sher­ane ‘Rane’ Black­man, a mem­ber of the US Navy, wants to be­come a house­hold name in so­ca.

As we step in­to a new year, Trinidad­Wed­dings is thrilled to un­veil its top 10 wed­ding trends pre­dict­ed to make waves in 2025! Cou­ples are em­brac­ing cre­ativ­i­ty and per­son­al­iza­tion like nev­er be­fore.

Par­ty lovers hop­ing to start 2025 and the Car­ni­val sea­son on the right foot found the ide­al op­por­tu­ni­ty at the 2025 edi­tion of Day One, host­ed by Il­lu­sions at Ho­tel Nor­mandie, St Ann’s on New Year’s Day.

Chloe Ram­nar­ine, whose coura­geous bat­tle with can­cer has touched hearts na­tion­wide, is now call­ing for prayers as she trav­els to Colom­bia to­day for life-sav­ing surgery.

So­ca star Akhen­aton “Yung Bred­da” Lewis has just spent his first Christ­mas at home in T&T in many years and re­ceived the gift of na­tion­al in­ter­est and ac­claim, along with time with his daugh­ter and fam­i­ly mem­bers. The ac­claim came af­ter his re­cent re­lease, The Great­est Bend Over, sky­rock­et­ed past Kes’ “Co­coa Tea” hit sin­gle to claim the #1 spot on Ap­ple Mu­sic’s top songs from T&T since De­cem­ber 21.

T&T-born In­dra Per­sad Milowe, an in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed artist, has chan­nelled her cre­ative en­er­gy in­to Jharokha, art­work com­mon­ly fea­tured in clas­si­cal In­di­an ar­chi­tec­ture that is dis­played in ac­tu­al or dec­o­ra­tive win­dows.