Reign­ing Chut­ney So­ca Monarch (CSM) Queen Resh­ma Ram­lal has an­nounced that she will not de­fend her ti­tle in 2026, say­ing her de­ci­sion is root­ed in a long-stand­ing com­mit­ment to cre­ate spaces and op­por­tu­ni­ties for oth­er women in the in­dus­try.

Sharon Christo­pher is well known in cor­po­rate cir­cles—from le­gal to bank­ing and fi­nance to lead­er­ship de­vel­op­ment—hav­ing com­piled a store­house of knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ence that she is al­ways will­ing to share.

Dr Juli­et Jones’ ca­reer in ed­u­ca­tion did not un­fold overnight, nor was it dri­ven by am­bi­tion alone. It was built pa­tient­ly—step by step—through class­rooms, cur­ricu­lum rooms and count­less learn­ing mo­ments. To­day, that jour­ney has po­si­tioned her as both a schol­ar and a men­tor to ed­u­ca­tors and oth­ers at home and abroad, gen­er­ous­ly shar­ing her knowl­edge.

Bed­time is usu­al­ly a fun time for Suzette Smith and her six-year-old son, Kay­den. That’s the time when the sto­ries about her child­hood pets would come to life. A year ago, Smith pub­lished one of those sto­ries, The Ad­ven­tures of Skeezy and Num Num—the first in what she ex­pects to be a se­ries.

I share my ex­pe­ri­ence of cer­vi­cal can­cer with you and any­one who may need to read it, any­one who may need to draw strength from the fact that you are not alone.

In a cel­e­bra­tion filled with joy, laugh­ter, and heart­felt mo­ments, Guardian Me­dia’s own Em­manuel Downes, the Elec­tri­cal Tech­ni­cian from the Sup­port Ser­vices De­part­ment, and Jen­nifer Nor­ton, the Clas­si­fieds Sub­scrip­tions Su­per­vi­sor, ex­changed vows on De­cem­ber 26, 2025, sur­round­ed by cher­ished fam­i­ly and friends.

PINKnicTT has evolved in­to one of the most an­tic­i­pat­ed pre­mi­um events on the Car­ni­val cal­en­dar, seam­less­ly blend­ing high-end en­ter­tain­ment with a pow­er­ful so­cial mis­sion—rais­ing aware­ness for breast can­cer.

As the 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son heats up and new so­ca re­leas­es dom­i­nate the air­waves, the Bo­cas Lit Fest is turn­ing the spot­light on ca­lyp­so with the launch of a new dis­cus­sion se­ries, Kaiso Con­ver­sa­tions, ded­i­cat­ed to the art of ca­lyp­so song­writ­ing. The in­au­gur­al event will fea­ture mu­si­cal icon David Rud­der.

Bright colours, soft mats and neat­ly arranged toys wel­come vis­i­tors in­to the ther­a­py rooms at the Caribbean Kids and Fam­i­lies Ther­a­py Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CK­FTO) satel­lite clin­ic on Ram­saran Street, Ch­agua­nas. While the space may re­sem­ble a cheer­ful play­room, it is in fact a care­ful­ly de­signed ther­a­peu­tic en­vi­ron­ment where chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties, along with their fam­i­lies, are sup­port­ed as they work to­wards stronger, more in­de­pen­dent fu­tures.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) of­fi­cial­ly ush­ered in the Car­ni­val 2026 sea­son with the open­ing of the John Cu­pid Car­ni­val Vil­lage last Fri­day at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, sig­nalling the start of an ex­pand­ed and vi­brant cul­tur­al of­fer­ing for the na­tion­al fes­ti­val.

“Pieces” singer Na­dia Bat­son en­joyed an out­pour­ing of love and Car­ni­val en­er­gy from the mas­sive au­di­ence gath­ered at the Bish­op’s Food In­clu­sive Cool­er Fete, held on the school grounds on Sat­ur­day night. Bat­son re­ceived a warm and in­creas­ing­ly en­gaged re­sponse as she per­formed her many hit se­lec­tions on tracks, earn­ing—rather than de­mand­ing—a swelling cho­rus of voic­es and a sea of hands point­ed sky­ward in spir­it­ed but taste­ful rev­el­ry.

Denise Bel­fon is de­liv­er­ing what she be­lieves is a much-need­ed so­ci­etal fix this Car­ni­val: nor­mal­is­ing com­fort, care and con­cern for men dur­ing times of stress. Her Car­ni­val 2026 fron­trun­ner, Fix You Good, ac­knowl­edges that some­times men are car­ry­ing more than they let on.