Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine and one of the most re­spect­ed en­ti­ties of Gas­par­il­lo in South Trinidad, his band Dil-E-Nadan, are cel­e­brat­ing one of their strongest in­ter­na­tion­al runs to date, fol­low­ing a sold-out head­line per­for­mance at the Hard Rock Café in Hol­ly­wood, Flori­da, on May 9, 2026. The mile­stone per­for­mance marked the chut­ney so­ca artiste’s in­au­gur­al head­line act at the pres­ti­gious venue, adding an­oth­er his­toric mo­ment to the band’s grow­ing glob­al jour­ney.

T&T con­tin­ues to dis­play its im­pact and ver­sa­til­i­ty in the mu­sic in­dus­try, se­cur­ing mul­ti­ple nom­i­na­tions across 23 cat­e­gories for the 2026 Caribbean Mu­sic Awards. Fans can now vote for their favourite singers, DJs, film-mak­ers, pro­duc­ers and events on­line un­til Au­gust 10.

Point Fortin dancer Shemic St Hillaire flew T&T’s flag high as he re­cent­ly com­plet­ed a dance-the­atre res­i­den­cy at Ober­lin Col­lege, Ohio, in the US. As he re­turns home for the next few months, he is gear­ing up for his own pro­duc­tion ti­tled Upinde II on June 12 in San Fer­nan­do.

There’s some­thing about the World Cup that does re­al mag­ic to or­di­nary spaces. A par­lour TV sud­den­ly turns in­to front-row seats, and a sim­ple fam­i­ly lime starts feel­ing like a full-on sup­port­ers’ club. Every­body be­comes a coach overnight—ar­gu­ing penal­ties, ques­tion­ing line-ups, de­bat­ing ref­er­ee­ing de­ci­sions—while strangers end up bond­ing over a bril­liant goal like they’ve known each oth­er from birth.

As many Trin­bag­o­ni­ans spend the Cor­pus Christi hol­i­day in deep spir­i­tu­al re­flec­tion, Surya Chai Well­ness Cafe of­fers an op­por­tu­ni­ty to think more deeply about the re­la­tion­ship be­tween food, well­ness, and mind­ful liv­ing all year round.

Baal Vikaas Vi­haar is root­ed in the idea of the de­vel­op­ment or blos­som­ing of the child, and serves as a spir­i­tu­al gath­er­ing or place of wor­ship.

Fyz­abad in south­ern Trinidad is con­sid­ered to be the birth­place of the mod­ern trade union move­ment, specif­i­cal­ly the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).

Cen­turies of tra­di­tion from West Africa have sur­vived coloni­sa­tion, pass­ing from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion, leav­ing a lega­cy of mys­tique and in­trigue.

It is easy, on a clear week­end morn­ing, to mis­take Mara­cas Bay for some­thing eter­nal—the curv­ing of the sand, the green wall of the North­ern Range ris­ing sharply be­hind it, and a blend of the Caribbean Sea and At­lantic Ocean press­ing in with steady force, all com­bined to sug­gest per­ma­nence.

Some may con­sid­er it a flaw or a char­ac­ter­is­tic to be rid of. But for Aken­na Kublal, vi­tili­go has changed her for the bet­ter, shap­ing a sto­ry of pro­found strength and re­silience.

For years, peo­ple mis­un­der­stood you. They fo­cus on the wrong fea­tures, make as­sump­tions and miss what tru­ly mat­ters.

Of these two, si­nus is by far the more com­mon. It’s be­cause of the chang­ing cli­mate. The air is be­com­ing more and more pol­lut­ed This ir­ri­tates and in­flames the lin­ing of the res­pi­ra­to­ry sys­tem which re­sponds by over­pro­duc­ing mu­cus and oth­er chem­i­cals that cause dis­ease.