It is in­cred­i­bly easy to view a week­end car wash as just a cos­met­ic lux­u­ry or a chore to put off un­til next month. How­ev­er, keep­ing your ve­hi­cle metic­u­lous­ly clean—both in­side and out—is ac­tu­al­ly a high­ly crit­i­cal safe­ty mea­sure that di­rect­ly im­pacts your abil­i­ty to dri­ve de­fen­sive­ly and re­act to haz­ards.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s glob­al so­ca am­bas­sador, Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller, and his out­fit Kes The Band have de­liv­ered a ca­reer-defin­ing mo­ment, cap­ti­vat­ing in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ences with a vi­brant, cul­tur­al­ly rich de­but on NPR Tiny Desk Con­certs—one of the world’s most in­flu­en­tial live mu­sic plat­forms.

The stu­dents of the Meta­mor­pho­sis Dance Com­pa­ny (MDC) of the Caribbean School of Danc­ing (CSD) are said to be pro­gress­ing in a man­ner that gives the world a rea­son to smile.

Even though it is known for its turquoise, clear wa­ters and post­card-per­fect views, earn­ing it the ti­tle of the “gem of the Caribbean,” Bar­ba­dos re­cent­ly trad­ed its peace­ful sound for some­thing a bit more up­beat.

Dance­hall artiste Tim­oy “Tee­jay” Jones is us­ing his plat­form to push a mes­sage be­yond mu­sic, call­ing for uni­ty with­in Trinidad’s ex­plo­sive Trini­bad scene while deep­en­ing his con­nec­tion to the wider Caribbean.

Style met sub­stance on the red car­pet as 700 pa­trons, many dressed in themed red, gath­ered for the pre­miere of The Dev­il Wears Pra­da 2 at Movi­eTowne Port-of-Spain on April 30. The screen­ing dou­bled as a fundrais­er for the Shel­ter for Bat­tered Women and Chil­dren, blend­ing fash­ion with a cause that re­mains ur­gent in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

When the Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA), led by Emile Ramkissoon, start­ed its 2026 trade mis­sion in In­dia on April 20, lit­tle did they know there would be mag­i­cal mo­ments.

When Spoil Bratts won the Nescafé Par­ty Time in 1992, they be­came the first dance crew to claim the crown. For the boys from Mor­vant, life changed overnight. The hys­te­ria was so in­tense that found­ing mem­ber Hamid Rah­man couldn’t even at­tend school the next day. Any time he stepped out of his house, it was pan­de­mo­ni­um. “As we pulled up on the Mor­vant taxi stand to go home, girls would point at us, scream, stare, and even run af­ter us,” Hamid re­calls. “They would say things like, ‘Oh my god! Look them!’”

Mikhail Sal­cedo says this year’s birth­day, which co­in­cides close­ly with Moth­er’s Day, will mark a mile­stone in his per­son­al his­to­ry.

The rhythms of the har­mo­ni­um, dho­lak and dhan­tal are set to echo through Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day as Dutch artiste Dewinder­s­ingh Sew­nath makes his high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed Trinidad de­but with his full band.

The vi­brant spir­it of Mex­i­co came alive last Fri­day, May 1, as Cin­co de Mayo cel­e­bra­tions un­fold­ed at the Em­bassy of Mex­i­co in Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der the stew­ard­ship of Am­bas­sador Vic­tor Hugo Morales Melén­dez.

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin has pledged that Point Fortin’s Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions will grow “big­ger and bet­ter” in the years ahead.