Asha Bhosle, who died in Mum­bai on April 12, 2026, aged 92, was pos­si­bly the most pro­lif­ic play­back singer in the his­to­ry of In­di­an cin­e­ma, with a record­ed out­put of more than 11,000 songs across more than 20 lan­guages, as not­ed by Guin­ness World Records.

Eme Eton has not yet done the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am, but she is al­ready at­tempt­ing ex­ams at a more ad­vanced lev­el.

It may be too ear­ly for some to think about Christ­mas, but not if you’re Giselle Laronde-West. If you’re one of those who love to gift lo­cal­ly made jew­ellery for the hol­i­days, Miss World 1986 and cor­po­rate ex­ec­u­tive-turned de­sign­er might have just the per­fect find to catch your eye.

Sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties con­tin­ue to grap­ple with per­sis­tent pest in­fes­ta­tions, of­ten fu­elled by the ac­cu­mu­la­tion of bulk waste in open spaces and along pub­lic streets. Against this back­drop, a group of pan play­ers and hik­ers joined forces to re­move more than 647 pounds of de­bris in a coastal clean-up and beau­ti­fi­ca­tion ex­er­cise at Par­adise Beach on April 19—three days ahead of Earth Day.

Glob­al stream­ing sen­sa­tion IShowSpeed has brought his high-en­er­gy, un­pre­dictable brand of con­tent to the Caribbean and on Sat­ur­day Trinidad and To­ba­go was first stop on a tour al­ready gen­er­at­ing in­tense re­gion­al buzz.

For some chil­dren—and even some adults—find­ing their voice is not al­ways easy. How­ev­er, the Pup­pet Palace work­shop is prov­ing that, with a lit­tle imag­i­na­tion and a pup­pet, it can make all the dif­fer­ence.

The Meta­mor­pho­sis Dance Com­pa­ny pushed the bound­aries of tra­di­tion­al per­for­mance with its lat­est pro­duc­tion, Il­lu­mi­na­tion, staged at Queen’s Hall , St Ann’s, ear­li­er this month.

A few years ago, Seema Ma­habir-Dols­ingh made a defin­ing de­ci­sion—to con­front a se­ries of per­son­al chal­lenges head-on and build a busi­ness from the ground up, with lit­tle more than de­ter­mi­na­tion and vi­sion.

With a call to re­turn to spir­i­tu­al­i­ty amid the coun­try’s es­ca­lat­ing crime sit­u­a­tion, some of the na­tion’s lead­ing gospel artistes came to­geth­er last Tues­day to en­cour­age cit­i­zens to live for Je­sus Christ be­fore it is too late. Their pul­pit was an un­like­ly one: the We Out­side pod­cast, host­ed by Yung Bred­da along­side DJ Hot­ty and Jamie, mark­ing a first for live gospel per­for­mances on the pop­u­lar plat­form.

The part­ner­ship be­tween Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed (GML) and Southex has been hailed as a defin­ing fac­tor be­hind the suc­cess of Chut­ney So­ca Monarch 2026, with or­gan­is­ers al­ready sig­nalling an ex­pand­ed col­lab­o­ra­tion for the year ahead.

A star-stud­ded cast, in­clud­ing three for­mer Ca­lyp­so Mon­archs, turned out in sup­port of a trib­ute con­cert held in ho­n­our of the Mori­cia Ca­gan Foun­da­tion, cel­e­brat­ing the life and lega­cy of the late cul­tur­al fig­ure.

The French Panora­ma, a grow­ing show­case of steel­pan ex­cel­lence, is or­gan­ised by the French Panora­ma As­so­ci­a­tion (FPA), es­tab­lished in 2025 un­der the di­rec­tion of Wan­da Atkins and co-di­rect­ed by Math­ys Me­u­nier. How­ev­er, the event it­self pre­dates the or­gan­i­sa­tion, with its first edi­tion held in 2022.