In cel­e­bra­tion of Ca­lyp­so His­to­ry Month, the Bo­cas Lit Fest host­ed an en­gag­ing con­ver­sa­tion with “Women in Kaiso” pro­duc­er Ju­dith Laird and so­ca artiste-song­writer Na­dia Bat­son at The Writ­ers Cen­tre, high­light­ing the deep con­nec­tions be­tween sto­ry­telling, mu­sic, and film in T&T’s cre­ative land­scape.

The lush, rolling hills and emer­ald At­lantic wa­ters of the Na­ture Isle em­braced mu­sic lovers from Oc­to­ber 24 to 26, as the World Cre­ole Mu­sic Fes­ti­val (WCMF) marked its 25th an­niver­sary un­der the ban­ner: “Glob­al Echoes of the Na­ture Is­land: Cel­e­brat­ing 25 Years of Cre­ole Mu­sic, Mag­ic and Mem­o­ries.” Held at the Wind­sor Park Sports Sta­di­um in Roseau, the event drew thou­sands of fans, re­gion­al stars, and a pal­pa­ble sense of Caribbean pride and uni­ty.

To­mor­row at 6.30 pm, City Hall, Port-of-Spain, will come alive with the sights and sounds of T&T’s rich cul­tur­al her­itage as the Mal­ick Folk Per­form­ing Com­pa­ny (MF­PC) stages Mélange – A Fu­sion in Mo­tion.

The three-day Jit Sama­roo Fes­ti­val, host­ed be­tween Oc­to­ber 31 and No­vem­ber 2, com­bined mu­sic, film, and con­tem­pla­tive el­e­ments to re­flect on the life and work of the late steel­pan arranger/com­pos­er, Jit Sama­roo, who would have turned 75 on Feb­ru­ary 24.

Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­py (OT) Week, cel­e­brat­ed from No­vem­ber 3–9, 2025, is a time ded­i­cat­ed to ho­n­our­ing the vi­tal role that oc­cu­pa­tion­al ther­a­pists play in help­ing peo­ple of all ages live fuller, more in­de­pen­dent, and mean­ing­ful lives.

Dur­ing Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month, which was ob­served in Oc­to­ber, many sto­ries of sur­vival and strength were told. One such sto­ry is that of Saman­tha Dun­can, whose jour­ney be­gan when she was just 28 years old. A breast can­cer di­ag­no­sis be­fore the age of 30 is rare—but not un­heard of.

At just 19, artist Shiv­anie Thomas has al­ready seen her work dis­played twice this year at the Cen­tral Bank Mu­se­um in Port-of-Spain.

Na­tion­al Freestyle Cham­pi­on Preedy (Akeem Chance) de­liv­ered an un­for­get­table sur­prise dur­ing his Acoustic Ex­pe­ri­ence last Sun­day when mul­ti­ple Road March win­ner and so­ca queen Patrice Roberts joined him on stage to de­but their new duet, Bac­cha­nal Mode. For Preedy, the mo­ment was sur­re­al—a vivid re­minder of his jour­ney and bur­geon­ing lega­cy.

The au­di­ence who at­tend­ed Paul Keens-Dou­glas’ Ent That Nice at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um on Oc­to­ber 12 found them­selves rem­i­nisc­ing about the days when the Trinidad-born racon­teur told sto­ries that made them laugh. Whether they heard his voice on ra­dio or TV, on vinyl or cas­sette, or per­haps mem­o­rised one of his many di­alect po­ems for TTT’s Twelve and Un­der or Teen Tal­ent, Keens-Dou­glas’ work left a sig­nif­i­cant mark on their lives.

Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador Ál­varo En­rique Sánchez Cordero says ca­lyp­so, so­ca and steel­pan are as beloved in Venezuela as parang, cu­a­tro and the shak-shak are in T&T.

Maria­ma Bâ was born in 1929 in Dakar, Sene­gal, then part of French West Africa. She came from a promi­nent Lebu fam­i­ly: her fa­ther, Amadou Bâ, was a civ­il ser­vant who be­came one of in­de­pen­dent Sene­gal’s first min­is­ters, serv­ing as Min­is­ter of Health in 1956 (Eu­ro­peana). Her moth­er died when she was young, and she was raised by her ma­ter­nal grand­moth­er in a de­vout Mus­lim house­hold.

It is well known both amongst our women and the broad­er pop­u­la­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go that breast screen­ing has some neg­a­tive per­cep­tions. The fact is that not many women screen. And even for those who do per­form breast screen­ing, they al­ways have a lot of con­cerns. Be­yond that, there are even more con­cerns and mis­con­cep­tions among the women who avoid screen­ing.