Prose fic­tion writer and hand­i­craft artiste, Vashti Bowlah, cred­its her rur­al up­bring­ing and her par­ents for her be­com­ing a pub­lished au­thor and en­tre­pre­neur.

As the Na­tion­al Dance As­so­ci­a­tion (NDA) en­ters its 45th year, the or­gan­i­sa­tion finds it­self at a crit­i­cal junc­ture. While the as­so­ci­a­tion is re­spect­ed for its lega­cy, the mem­bers are aware that lega­cy alone can­not car­ry dance in­to the fu­ture.

The evo­lu­tion of cer­vi­cal can­cer man­age­ment is wide­ly re­gard­ed as one of the great­est suc­cess sto­ries in mod­ern med­i­cine, il­lus­trat­ing how pre­ven­tion, ear­ly de­tec­tion, and pub­lic health pol­i­cy can dra­mat­i­cal­ly re­duce can­cer bur­den. Yet, this suc­cess has been un­even, with pro­found dis­par­i­ties be­tween high-in­come coun­tries and many low- and mid­dle-in­come coun­tries (LMICs).

One of Ch­agua­nas’ most pop­u­lar J’Ou­vert bands, Jou­vert Junkiez, is promis­ing a pow­er­ful re­turn to the roots of Car­ni­val with its 2026 por­tray­al, Ra­ma­jay… Time to Break Away.

“I found it very full of death and cold.” Wendy Doniger’s re­ac­tion to the Taj Ma­hal ap­pears in An Amer­i­can Girl in In­dia: Let­ters and Rec­ol­lec­tions, 1963–64. The ex­tract pub­lished here is tak­en from that book.

To res­i­dents of tenth Street, Techi­er Vil­lage, Point Fortin, Myr­tle Mau­rice-Bai­ley, known wide­ly as Ma Bai­ley, will al­ways be one of the pil­lars of their com­mu­ni­ty.

At The Guild, lo­cat­ed at the Shoppes of Mar­aval, Richard Young is cul­ti­vat­ing more than a cre­ative space—he is nur­tur­ing an ecosys­tem where Caribbean iden­ti­ty and women’s em­pow­er­ment in­ter­sect.

Parang en­thu­si­asts will gath­er to cel­e­brate the Feasts of the Epiphany and the Bap­tism of the Lord when Par­ran­deros meet at St Michael’s Ro­man Catholic Church, Mara­cas, St Joseph, to­day.

When the cur­tain ris­es at 7 pm to­mor­row at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, for Lega­cy—the Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Band Fi­nals—16 steel or­ches­tras will take the stage, ready for in­tense ad­ju­di­ca­tion in one of the fes­ti­val’s most keen­ly con­test­ed cat­e­gories.

Re­search sug­gests that dur­ing pe­ri­ods of height­ened stress, peo­ple are more in­clined to so­cialise, cel­e­brate and seek re­lease through recre­ation. Car­ni­val 2026 may well be shap­ing up as a liv­ing ex­am­ple of this “ten­sion-re­duc­tion” hy­poth­e­sis.

Grena­di­an So­ca Monarch Mud­dy (Alex Cuffie) de­liv­ered an un­ex­pect­ed jolt of Jab en­er­gy at Si­ete Events’ French Toast Break­fast Cool­er Par­ty last Sun­day morn­ing, giv­ing pa­trons a tan­ta­lis­ing pre­view of what he is bring­ing to Trinidad Car­ni­val 2026.

For gen­er­a­tions, the im­age of a dancer bend­ing im­pos­si­bly low be­neath a flam­ing bar has been one of T&T’s most en­dur­ing cul­tur­al sym­bols. That tra­di­tion will re­claim cen­tre stage this month with the re­launch of the Na­tion­al Lim­bo Com­pe­ti­tion, fol­low­ing an 18-year ab­sence from the na­tion­al cal­en­dar.