It’s no se­cret that Car­ni­val can neg­a­tive­ly im­pact your feet, be it the ‘fête af­ter fête” phe­nom­e­non or mas­querad­ing, the days af­ter the fes­tiv­i­ties, is when foot pain or dis­com­fort ac­ti­vates. You may take pain med­ica­tions, mas­sage your feet with mus­cle balm, and stay in bed all day, with hopes that the pain will go away, but not al­ways are these ef­fec­tive reme­dies. This ar­ti­cle seeks to pro­vide key restora­tive tech­niques to en­sure your feet are feel­ing hap­py and healthy.

These are just few words that come to mind on meet­ing sev­en- year-old Coryn, whose first book was pub­lished at age 4. How­ev­er, she is more than just an au­thor, she wins hearts with her voice, her huge smile and loves fash­ion. She adores bright colours and sparkles, as they tru­ly com­ple­ment her vi­va­cious per­son­al­i­ty.

But as soon as she was old enough and fi­nan­cial­ly sta­ble, she en­sured to re­turn home for Car­ni­val.

The Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme host­ed its an­nu­al Ca­lyp­so Com­pe­ti­tion on Feb­ru­ary 10 at the Car­ni­val Vil­lage, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

San Fer­nan­do-born Chris­t­ian-Folk, singer/song­writer Can­dace Cok­er has sur­prised her lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al fans with a Valen­tine’s Day re­lease of her lat­est sin­gle, He­m­or­rhage.

Five thou­sand mas­quer­aders will ra­ma­jay with Young Up­com­ing Mo­bile Adults (Yu­ma) Vibe on the road and stage this year. That’s 1,500 more than in 2020 when that large band had 3,500 rev­ellers.

Car­ni­val in Trinidad dur­ing the ’90s is yet to be recog­nised as a decade that de­liv­ered a sig­nif­i­cant turn­ing point for the Car­ni­val arts. In an am­bi­tious trib­ute, five aca­d­e­mics, a play­wright and pho­tog­ra­ph­er weave their ob­ser­va­tions in­to a fas­ci­nat­ing col­lec­tion that stud­ies a decade and of­fers an in­ti­mate lens in­to and crit­i­cal sur­vey of the con­tem­po­rary works of mas by artist Pe­ter Min­shall.

First time Gram­my award win­ner, Nom­ce­bo will be grac­ing our pop­u­la­tion with her mag­nan­i­mous pres­ence for her first ever T&T Car­ni­val. While Jerusale­ma took the world by storm, Bayethe (which means Ac­claim in the Zu­lu lan­guage) gave her the GRAM­MY award!

Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in Ch­agua­nas got off to an en­er­getic start. The launch took place on Sat­ur­day on the Ch­agua­nas Main Road with a cadre of lo­cal artists en­ter­tain­ing the crowd gath­ered in front of the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket.

‘I am al­ways on the go! I want to pre­pare nu­tri­tious meals for my fam­i­ly but I don’t think I have the time,” says every busy mum/busy dad in­un­dat­ed by work and bal­anc­ing a holis­tic healthy lifestyle.

‘Doc, my head is pound­ing!’ You’re parched and the sun is too bright, the world is too loud, and all you want to do is crawl un­der the cov­ers and hi­ber­nate un­til the feel­ing’s gone.

Once I put my trust in God, I con­tin­ued to op­er­ate in a pos­i­tive mode. It was like ‘do what you have to do’ and think of noth­ing else ex­cept be­ing that bea­con of hope to oth­ers faced with a sim­i­lar chal­lenge.”