Large Band of the Year, The Lost TRIBE, has un­veiled a new Free Roam­ing Sec­tion fea­tur­ing sailor mas as part of its 2026 pre­sen­ta­tion, Is­land Cir­cus.

The Fash­ion Unit of Glob­al Trinidad and To­ba­go has un­veiled the 15th edi­tion of its sig­na­ture Look­Book, ti­tled Mem­o­ries and Mile­stones—an el­e­gant, genre-de­fy­ing cel­e­bra­tion of Caribbean cre­ativ­i­ty through the lens of wed­ding and for­mal wear fash­ion.

In any con­cert or fete, the spot­light nat­u­ral­ly falls on the per­form­ers who set the mood and keep pa­trons danc­ing. But for many at­ten­dees, the ex­pe­ri­ence wouldn’t be com­plete with­out the bar­tenders and mixol­o­gists whose cre­ativ­i­ty shines through in the drinks they serve.

The Cunu­pia-based Ap­sara Dance Com­pa­ny cap­ti­vat­ed au­di­ences on Fri­day with a cel­e­bra­tion of In­di­an dance tra­di­tions at its third an­nu­al con­cert, held at the NCIC Na­gar.

“I felt as though some­one had knocked me down with a big stone. I was hear­ing the words but it felt like the words weren’t for me.” Con­sul­tant pae­di­a­tri­cian, can­cer sur­vivor, and re­cent­ly ho­n­oured as a Glob­al Hero of Hope by the Amer­i­can Can­cer So­ci­ety, Dr Maria­ma Al­leyne re­calls the out-of-body ex­pe­ri­ence of be­ing di­ag­nosed with can­cer in 2018.

Ni­dia An­drews—a name well known in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s women’s crick­et fra­ter­ni­ty—is now earn­ing the ad­mi­ra­tion and re­spect of the Guyanese peo­ple. Two years ago, a trip to Guyana to play crick­et changed every­thing for her.

When sev­en-year-old Adam Bartholomew sat be­side his grand­moth­er at the pi­ano for his first les­son, he had no idea that mu­sic and the steel­pan in par­tic­u­lar would one day car­ry him to the halls of Har­vard and Berklee Col­lege of Mu­sic.

On June 5, a unique culi­nary aro­ma, vi­brant pre­sen­ta­tions, and a spir­it­ed en­er­gy filled the FOX5 Wash­ing­ton DC tele­vi­sion stu­dio dur­ing its LI­ON Lunch Hour seg­ment (Like It Or Not), as Tri­ni-born Gillian de Souza made a guest ap­pear­ance. The seg­ment, ti­tled Cel­e­brate with Caribbean Cater­ers, was es­pe­cial­ly mean­ing­ful to her as it took place dur­ing Caribbean Amer­i­can Her­itage Month.

“A li­on is stronger than a man, but it does not en­able him to dom­i­nate the hu­man race. You have ne­glect­ed the du­ty you owe to your­selves, and you have lost your nat­ur­al rights by shut­ting your eyes to your own in­ter­ests.”—Sul­tana’s Dream, 1905

Nadra Su­per­sad is an artist, an avid cook, and a lover of a good lime. At 51 years old, Su­per­sad, who re­sides in Cara­pichaima with her fam­i­ly, re­fus­es to be de­fined by her can­cer di­ag­no­sis, and in fact is a liv­ing con­tra­dic­tion to the gen­er­al ex­pec­ta­tions of can­cer pa­tients.

Guardian Me­dia pho­tog­ra­ph­er NICOLE DRAY­TON shares her breast can­cer jour­ney with WE mag­a­zine.

June is ob­served in the Unit­ed States as Caribbean-Amer­i­can Her­itage Month, recog­nis­ing Amer­i­cans of Caribbean de­scent and cel­e­brat­ing Caribbean uni­ty, cul­tur­al pride, and aca­d­e­m­ic ex­cel­lence. This year marked the 19th an­nu­al ob­ser­vance na­tion­wide, while the Kings Coun­ty (Brook­lyn) courts host­ed their third an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion on the af­ter­noon of June 27 at the Ju­ry As­sem­bly Room of the Kings Coun­ty Supreme Court (Crim­i­nal Term).