The hu­mid­i­ty rose as high as the awe­some Car­ni­val en­er­gy last Fri­day night, when Winer­boy En­ter­tain­ment host­ed its an­nu­al Rosé cel­e­bra­tion at Cipri­ani Labour Col­lege in Val­sayn.

The Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege (QRC) Grounds in St Clair came alive this past week­end as Fete Roy­al: Ra­ma­jay de­liv­ered a high-en­er­gy, all-in­clu­sive Car­ni­val fête that lived up to its hype. Brand­ed as a night of “pure vibes and pure QRC spir­it,” the event drew a spir­it­ed crowd of Car­ni­val rev­ellers who danced, laughed and so­cialised un­der the stars well in­to the ear­ly hours. With the school’s his­toric grounds pro­vid­ing a vi­brant back­drop, pa­trons soaked up the pul­sat­ing so­ca rhythms that de­fined the night, while food and drink flowed freely, adding to the cel­e­bra­to­ry at­mos­phere that seemed to cap­ture both tra­di­tion and youth cul­ture.

The Pas­sage to Asia fete re­turned with flair on Sun­day at the St An­drew’s Golf Club car park in Mo­ka, de­liv­er­ing a blend­ed vi­brant so­ca en­er­gy with a sump­tu­ous culi­nary ex­pe­ri­ence.

He would prob­a­bly not ap­prove of the com­par­i­son, but meet­ing pan con­nois­seur and his­to­ri­an Ian Franklin at a pa­n­yard the morn­ing af­ter com­pet­i­tive dra­ma is like mo­men­tar­i­ly oc­cu­py­ing li­brary space—soft, mea­sured tones, po­lite re­straint, and a vast­ness of read­i­ly ac­ces­si­ble knowl­edge and wis­dom.

These are un­doubt­ed­ly two of the most pop­u­lar lines for the 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son, cour­tesy of Full Blown’s hit song Re­spect­ful­ly Yours.

Be­fore he be­came the voice wak­ing up the na­tion on The Boom 94.1, Kwe­si “Su­pahype” Lee was al­ready telling Caribbean sto­ries—qui­et­ly, vi­su­al­ly, de­lib­er­ate­ly—through a cam­era lens.

There are many chal­lenges that we go through as women as we age. Dur­ing menopause, women tend to ex­pe­ri­ence many dif­fer­ent symp­toms. Typ­i­cal­ly, women ex­pe­ri­ence menopause be­tween the ages of 45 and 55 years. Some women ex­pe­ri­ence this tran­si­tion ear­li­er or lat­er in life. Menopause can be de­fined as the end of men­stru­a­tion. Usu­al­ly, it is di­ag­nosed af­ter about one year with­out a pe­ri­od.

As a gy­nae­co­log­i­cal on­col­o­gist, cer­vi­cal can­cer to me is not just a sta­tis­tic. It is a di­ag­no­sis I de­liv­er all too of­ten and a sto­ry that does not al­ways end as we hoped.

At just 24, Ner­is­sa Bachan is steadi­ly carv­ing out a space for her­self in the ever-evolv­ing chut­ney mu­sic are­na, bal­anc­ing a grow­ing per­for­mance ca­reer with a sol­id aca­d­e­m­ic life.

For many women, painful pe­ri­ods have been con­sid­ered a nor­mal part of life. Young girls are of­ten told to “bear with it,” while old­er women silent­ly tol­er­ate dis­com­fort month af­ter month. But as a gy­nae­col­o­gist, I want to make one thing very clear: se­vere or dis­abling pe­ri­od pain is not nor­mal and should nev­er be ig­nored.

As a uni­ver­si­ty fo­cused on us­ing re­search for the up­lift­ment of its com­mu­ni­ty, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine (UWI STA), the pre­mier ter­tiary in­sti­tu­tion in the re­gion, pro­duc­ing world-class schol­ars, be­lieves sci­ence should be ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic. We are pleased to present our me­dia se­ries, UWI Sci­en­tists Speak. To­day, we hear from Dr Amy Dea­con and Pro­fes­sor In­dar Ram­nar­ine from the Fac­ul­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy about their re­search on the Trinidad Gup­py.

Colour My Fan­ta­sy J’Ou­vert band, which be­gan in 2012, con­tin­ues to build on its lega­cy of cul­tur­al re­vival and tra­di­tion­al Car­ni­val ex­pres­sion, ac­cord­ing to band spokesman Varoun Har­rimun­gal.