It would take Trinida­di­an Karen Sin­clair on­ly a few days in an art class in a mid­dle east­ern coun­try some 12,000 kilo­me­tres from home to re­alise she had artis­tic tal­ent. Her work would come to be a sta­ple of the coun­try's bur­geon­ing art scene.

Af­ter hav­ing a suc­cess­ful stint in the world of Car­ni­val, lo­cal artiste 5Star Ak­il (Ak­il Bor­neo) has ex­it­ed the so­ca stage and has be­gun his new walk in Chris­tian­i­ty.

Al­though he does have a song with that name along­side Preedy (Akeem Chance) and Mi­cal Te­ja (Mi­cal Te­ja Williams).

The In­ter­na­tion­al Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Mi­gra­tion Port-of-Spain Of­fice (IOM POS) host­ed the Glob­al Mi­gra­tion Film Fes­ti­val (GMFF) on De­cem­ber 3, 2022, in recog­ni­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Mi­grants Day, which is cel­e­brat­ed both an­nu­al­ly and glob­al­ly on De­cem­ber 18.

As part of the Mal­ick Folk Per­form­ing Com­pa­ny’s (MF­PC) on­go­ing ef­forts to fos­ter a love for and de­vel­op all as­pects of the Per­form­ing Arts, We Kin­da Christ­mas The Con­cert was held at NA­PA on Sun­day, De­cem­ber 4 fea­tur­ing per­for­mances by the Com­pa­ny, FCB Su­per­novas Steel­band, T&T Prison Ser­vice Band, Rod­er­ick “Chuck” Gor­don, Zee TV Shiv Shak­ti Dancers, Los Alum­nos de San Juan, The Guer­ra Sis­ters and Jeron Hack­ett un­der the pa­tron­age of the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.

Flood­ing is dev­as­tat­ing in every as­pect: from prop­er­ty and in­fra­struc­ture dam­age to loss of life and wider health im­pact. The health im­pact of dis­as­ters like flood­ing are com­plex and cas­cad­ing, and can im­pact any one per­son or pop­u­la­tion si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly.

Trinidad & To­ba­go-born mu­si­cal duo Ki­net­ic has re­leased its first con­tri­bu­tion to the 2023 So­ca sound­track ti­tled Driftin.

Arn­im’s Art Gal­le­ria, 27 Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, trans­formed on No­vem­ber 18, in­to an ex­plo­sion of el­e­gance, colour, fash­ion, re­gal pageantry and fi­nesse with so­cial su­prema­cy and fine art, when Lisa Faye pre­sent­ed her Christ­mas col­lec­tion ti­tled Caribbean Lux­u­ry, dur­ing her so­lo art ex­hi­bi­tion, Imag­ine, that ran from No­vem­ber 11 to the 25.

There con­tin­ues to be great em­pha­sis on the im­por­tance of breast screen­ing and for good rea­son, as ear­ly de­tec­tion saves lives and achieves more suc­cess­ful out­comes.

“How the Grinch Stole Christ­mas” is a clas­sic tale about learn­ing the true mean­ing of giv­ing, shar­ing, and fam­i­ly. The Grinch hates Christ­mas, and for 53 years he tries to end it by tak­ing all the presents and food in Whoville. At the end of the sto­ry, he re­alis­es that Christ­mas can be cel­e­brat­ed with­out those things be­cause the true mean­ing of the hol­i­day does not come in ‘things with tags, pack­ages, box­es or bags.”  

Ha­rande' Elie is chart­ing the way for him­self as an artist on the lo­cal scene, with not just con­tem­po­rary pieces but al­so with pho­tog­ra­phy and doc­u­men­tary-style pro­duc­tion.

Mitchell runs The Shel­ter, which, as its name sug­gests, is a safe and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tive space for sur­vivors of do­mes­tic abuse.