Award-win­ning chil­dren’s Car­ni­val band Spoilt Rot­ten Kids (SRK) will present Am­bakaila — de­scribed as a unique and im­mer­sive stage-in­spired por­tray­al — as its Car­ni­val of­fer­ing this year, fea­tur­ing nine sec­tions and mas­quer­aders as young as two.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion on Sun­day pre­sent­ed “Car­ni­val Is Fash­ion 2” at the stage of the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

Rap­so band 3canal re­turns to the Car­ni­val stage with an­oth­er ex­plo­sive the­atri­cal pro­duc­tion, this time sum­mon­ing a gath­er­ing of Mad Jabs.

Af­ter an 18-year ab­sence, the Na­tion­al Lim­bo Com­pe­ti­tion made a pow­er­ful and emo­tion­al re­turn on Sat­ur­day night, re­claim­ing its place as one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most sig­nif­i­cant cel­e­bra­tions of dance her­itage, in­no­va­tion and ex­cel­lence.

Sea­soned per­former Tri­cia Hamil­ton en­ters the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion with her lat­est of­fer­ing, D Bam­boo—a track she de­scribes as play­ful, cul­tur­al­ly rich and de­signed to ig­nite any stage.

At just 15, J’nai Ed­wards is al­ready jug­gling mul­ti­ple pas­sions. A Form Four stu­dent at Bish­op Anstey High School, she is an avid swim­mer and wa­ter po­lo ath­lete, while al­so pur­su­ing CXC sub­jects in prepa­ra­tion for her dream ca­reer as a chef.

Ner­mal “Mas­sive” Go­sine is set to launch the 23rd edi­tion of his Rov­ing Chut­ney Ca­lyp­so Com­e­dy Tent on Fri­day, con­tin­u­ing a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion of bring­ing cul­tur­al en­ter­tain­ment to com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Pa­trons of this year’s Fete with the Saints had lit­tle time to rest, as a se­ries of high-en­er­gy per­for­mances kept them on their feet and groov­ing in­to the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

Cen­tral’s fire­brand La­dy La­va is turn­ing up the heat as she steps bold­ly in­to the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion, armed with con­fi­dence, ex­pe­ri­ence and a track that is al­ready gen­er­at­ing a strong buzz.

With the semi­fi­nals of the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch on Jan­u­ary 30, inch­ing clos­er, some chut­ney artistes are speak­ing out not on­ly about their con­tri­bu­tions but al­so about their jour­ney in the in­dus­try.

“We have a trea­sure chest of art and tal­ent…When I think of T&T, the over­ar­ch­ing theme is cre­ativ­i­ty and fes­tiv­i­ty. I want to cre­ate en­ter­tain­ing films that ed­u­cate us about us, so it’s not a task to get ex­cit­ed about our­selves.”

Since re­turn­ing to the Car­ni­val cal­en­dar eleven years ago, Fete Roy­al has con­sis­tent­ly grown in stature as one of the pre­mi­um all-in­clu­sive events of the sea­son.