Rap­so band 3canal re­turns to the Car­ni­val stage with an­oth­er ex­plo­sive the­atri­cal pro­duc­tion, this time sum­mon­ing a gath­er­ing of Mad Jabs.

Award-win­ning chil­dren’s Car­ni­val band Spoilt Rot­ten Kids (SRK) will present Am­bakaila — de­scribed as a unique and im­mer­sive stage-in­spired por­tray­al — as its Car­ni­val of­fer­ing this year, fea­tur­ing nine sec­tions and mas­quer­aders as young as two.

Af­ter an 18-year ab­sence, the Na­tion­al Lim­bo Com­pe­ti­tion made a pow­er­ful and emo­tion­al re­turn on Sat­ur­day night, re­claim­ing its place as one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most sig­nif­i­cant cel­e­bra­tions of dance her­itage, in­no­va­tion and ex­cel­lence.

Ner­mal “Mas­sive” Go­sine is set to launch the 23rd edi­tion of his Rov­ing Chut­ney Ca­lyp­so Com­e­dy Tent on Fri­day, con­tin­u­ing a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion of bring­ing cul­tur­al en­ter­tain­ment to com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

At just 15, J’nai Ed­wards is al­ready jug­gling mul­ti­ple pas­sions. A Form Four stu­dent at Bish­op Anstey High School, she is an avid swim­mer and wa­ter po­lo ath­lete, while al­so pur­su­ing CXC sub­jects in prepa­ra­tion for her dream ca­reer as a chef.

Pa­trons of this year’s Fete with the Saints had lit­tle time to rest, as a se­ries of high-en­er­gy per­for­mances kept them on their feet and groov­ing in­to the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

As the count­down to Car­ni­val in­ten­si­fies, Pas­sage to Asia is set­ting the tone for the sea­son with not one, but two high-en­er­gy, ul­tra-pre­mi­um events that promise mu­sic, in­dul­gence, and sig­na­ture flair.

Since re­turn­ing to the Car­ni­val cal­en­dar eleven years ago, Fete Roy­al has con­sis­tent­ly grown in stature as one of the pre­mi­um all-in­clu­sive events of the sea­son.

For too long, menopause has been framed as some­thing go­ing wrong in a woman’s body. In my clin­ic, I see the con­se­quences of that nar­ra­tive every day: women who feel blind­sided, ashamed, or con­vinced they are “fail­ing” at midlife. I want to be clear — menopause is not a med­ical col­lapse. It is one of the most pro­found and pur­pose­ful tran­si­tions in fe­male bi­ol­o­gy.

This Car­ni­val sea­son, Car­ni­val Is Fash­ion 2 makes his­to­ry as it takes cen­tre stage at the icon­ic Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah Grand­stand, re­defin­ing ac­cess to one of the Caribbean’s most revered cul­tur­al plat­forms.

Poly­cys­tic ovary syn­drome (PCOS) is un­for­tu­nate­ly very com­mon among women in Trinidad and To­ba­go. One of the signs can be linked to ir­reg­u­lar pe­ri­ods, fa­cial hair, in­sulin re­sis­tance that stems from un­in­ten­tion­al weight gain and poly­cys­tic ovaries. Di­ag­no­sis tech­niques in­clude blood tests to mea­sure hor­mone lev­els, as well as ul­tra­sounds. Due to the symp­toms as­so­ci­at­ed with PCOS, it can low­er the qual­i­ty of life for women as it can im­pact dai­ly func­tions with poor body im­age, feel­ing of fa­tigue, de­pres­sion and long-term health risks such as Di­a­betes.

Of­fi­cial­ly, she has been an ac­tress for ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20 years. But she was “thrown” in­to the the­atri­cal spot­light long be­fore that.