Books by fif­teen au­thors with roots in eight ter­ri­to­ries have been short­list­ed for the 2026 OCM Bo­cas Prize for Caribbean Lit­er­a­ture, spon­sored by One Caribbean Me­dia.

Every month, I would usu­al­ly meet some women who are sur­prised by a pos­i­tive preg­nan­cy test — not be­cause they were care­less, but be­cause they mis­read the ear­ly signs. Many ex­pect preg­nan­cy to be­gin with dra­mat­ic nau­sea or a very ob­vi­ous missed pe­ri­od. In re­al­i­ty, some­times ear­ly preg­nan­cy may start qui­et­ly, with symp­toms that are sub­tle and eas­i­ly mis­tak­en for stress, hor­mon­al shifts, or an ap­proach­ing men­stru­al cy­cle. Just this week, I saw a young la­dy with a his­to­ry of poly­cys­tic ovaries who missed her pe­ri­od as per usu­al, no oth­er symp­toms, but when I did her ul­tra­sound, she was found to have a live em­bryo. Imag­ine her sur­prise.

When mas­quer­aders took to the streets in Ch­agua­nas for Car­ni­val, daz­zling in feath­ers, beads and bold colour, much of the spec­ta­cle can be traced back to the steady hands and sharp mind of 25-year-old de­sign­er Maris­sa Bridglal.

For many women, tak­ing care of them­selves feels wrong. It is not that self-care lacks val­ue, but that they feel they do not de­serve it.

Ja­maica’sMin­is­ter of Cul­ture, Gen­der, En­ter­tain­ment and Sport, Olivia “Bab­sy” Grange OJ, CD, used the plat­form of the Ja­maica Cre­ative Ca­reer Ex­po, held in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Is­land Mu­sic Con­fer­ence, to high­light the coun­try’s cre­ative econ­o­my as a strate­gic na­tion­al as­set.

Mark­ing an­oth­er mile­stone in his ris­ing in­ter­na­tion­al pro­file, so­ca star Aaron “Voice” St Louis added a pres­ti­gious ac­co­lade to his grow­ing list of achieve­ments on Feb­ru­ary 26.

Ahead of the Fourth Chi­nese Spring Fes­ti­val in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Em­bassy of the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na host­ed a cul­tur­al evening to ush­er in the Year of the Horse.

Katha Kala Sangam ob­served Saraswati Jayan­ti at the Beepath Ranch Cul­tur­al Cen­tre in Ca­paro on Feb­ru­ary 1. The event ho­n­ours the birth of Saraswati, the Hin­du god­dess of knowl­edge, mu­sic, art, speech, wis­dom and learn­ing.

Hav­ing en­tered the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch (CSM) com­pe­ti­tion as a wild card, Savi­ta Singh de­fied ex­pec­ta­tions and si­lenced doubters, emerg­ing as the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch with her hit song The Ring. Her vic­to­ry at the grand fi­nals on Feb­ru­ary 8 se­cured her the cov­et­ed ti­tle and a $400,000 prize, but more im­por­tant­ly, it marked the start of a his­toric and fast-ris­ing chap­ter in her mu­si­cal jour­ney.

In a ges­ture that blend­ed com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing with cul­tur­al rev­er­ence, of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion Com­mu­ni­ty Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Sec­tion (ED­COPS) paid trib­ute to two of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­dur­ing ca­lyp­so stal­warts ear­li­er this month, pre­sent­ing them with their “flow­ers” while they can still en­joy their fra­grance.

The Car­ni­val Oa­sis, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pre­mier lux­u­ry Car­ni­val recharge ex­pe­ri­ence, re­turned on Car­ni­val Tues­day for its fifth edi­tion. The high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed, in­vi­ta­tion-on­ly event reaf­firmed its sta­tus as an in­ti­mate sanc­tu­ary of re­lax­ation, well­ness, and in­dul­gence amid the vi­brant en­er­gy of The Great­est Show On Earth.

This year, the Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go will cel­e­brate its rich cul­tur­al her­itage in grand style at An­chor­age, Ch­aguara­mas, on the west­ern penin­su­la. The two-day Spring Fes­ti­val marks the Chi­nese New Year and ho­n­ours the Year of the Fire Horse—a rare event that oc­curs once every 60 years.