When Spoil Bratts won the Nescafé Par­ty Time in 1992, they be­came the first dance crew to claim the crown. For the boys from Mor­vant, life changed overnight. The hys­te­ria was so in­tense that found­ing mem­ber Hamid Rah­man couldn’t even at­tend school the next day. Any time he stepped out of his house, it was pan­de­mo­ni­um. “As we pulled up on the Mor­vant taxi stand to go home, girls would point at us, scream, stare, and even run af­ter us,” Hamid re­calls. “They would say things like, ‘Oh my god! Look them!’”

When the Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA), led by Emile Ramkissoon, start­ed its 2026 trade mis­sion in In­dia on April 20, lit­tle did they know there would be mag­i­cal mo­ments.

The rhythms of the har­mo­ni­um, dho­lak and dhan­tal are set to echo through Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day as Dutch artiste Dewinder­s­ingh Sew­nath makes his high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed Trinidad de­but with his full band.

Mikhail Sal­cedo says this year’s birth­day, which co­in­cides close­ly with Moth­er’s Day, will mark a mile­stone in his per­son­al his­to­ry.

The vi­brant spir­it of Mex­i­co came alive last Fri­day, May 1, as Cin­co de Mayo cel­e­bra­tions un­fold­ed at the Em­bassy of Mex­i­co in Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der the stew­ard­ship of Am­bas­sador Vic­tor Hugo Morales Melén­dez.

A shared vi­sion first sparked on an in­ter­na­tion­al stage came to life be­fore a lo­cal au­di­ence when Cari­Carib Dance and Danse4Nia/Phoenix Danse pre­sent­ed Col­lab­o­ra­tion at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, on April 26.

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin has pledged that Point Fortin’s Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions will grow “big­ger and bet­ter” in the years ahead.

She has been named one of the Queen Eliz­a­beth II Com­mon­wealth Trust 100 Young Lead­ers Awardees for 2026. This award recog­nis­es 100 young change­mak­ers across the Com­mon­wealth and was launched to mark what would have been Queen Eliz­a­beth II’s 100th birth­day. For Maya, this is an­oth­er ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion in a jour­ney that has al­ready in­clud­ed the 2020 Di­ana Award and be­ing named Com­mon­wealth Young Per­son of the Year 2023.

So­cial his­to­ri­an, fem­i­nist schol­ar and Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Gen­der, So­cial Change and De­vel­op­ment at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Rho­da Red­dock, has spent a life­time in­ter­ro­gat­ing the struc­tures that shape Caribbean so­ci­ety. Fram­ing is­sues sur­round­ing pow­er struc­tures caused by race/eth­nic­i­ty, gen­der and class has been a cen­tral fo­cal point of her life’s work, and in this ex­plo­ration, she has be­come one of the re­gion’s most for­mi­da­ble in­tel­lec­tu­al voic­es. From her base in the up­per ech­e­lons of acad­e­mia at the UWI, St Au­gus­tine and through her in­volve­ment in glob­al and lo­cal ac­tivism, she has al­so con­sis­tent­ly chal­lenged the mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion of Caribbean thought with­in glob­al acad­e­mia, in­sist­ing that the re­gion is not pe­riph­er­al but foun­da­tion­al to un­der­stand­ing mod­ern in­equal­i­ties.

In­fer­til­i­ty in women can be de­fined as the in­abil­i­ty to achieve preg­nan­cy af­ter 12 months of try­ing with a male part­ner. It can al­so re­fer to the in­abil­i­ty to car­ry a preg­nan­cy to term. Fe­male in­fer­til­i­ty may re­sult from many fac­tors, such as blocked fal­lop­i­an tubes, hor­mon­al im­bal­ances, age-re­lat­ed de­cline in egg qual­i­ty, or health con­di­tions. Lifestyle fac­tors are im­por­tant in in­flu­enc­ing re­pro­duc­tive health.

Jer­el Ram­sey sought to bring a Caribbean twist to the theme of en­vi­ron­men­tal jus­tice, so he wrote and di­rect­ed Bois — a short film do­ing just that. It was re­cent­ly screened at the Film and Folk­lore Fes­ti­val, and au­di­ences couldn’t get enough of it.

Each May, health­care pro­fes­sion­als around the world ob­serve Preeclamp­sia Aware­ness Month, a cam­paign led by or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the Preeclamp­sia Foun­da­tion. Es­tab­lished in the ear­ly 2000s, this ini­tia­tive was cre­at­ed to im­prove aware­ness, pro­mote ear­ly de­tec­tion, and re­duce the se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with this con­di­tion. The cam­paign is of­ten rep­re­sent­ed by navy and hot pink colours and a pur­ple and blue rib­bon, sym­bol­is­ing strength, ur­gency, and ma­ter­nal health ad­vo­ca­cy.