It’s 2012 (my birthday, actually!), and we’ve started the year with a bang!

At Discover Trinidad & Tobago’s website, we’ve just added a new interview with debutante mas band designers Karen and Kathy Norman (K2K), the ladies behind the new medium-category, all-inclusive Carnival band “The Waters – Seas of Consciousness”. Read all about them here.

Over at sister publication Caribbean Beat, we sent out our newsletter yesterday (if you haven’t already subscribed, you can view the last edition or sign up for free here), featuring all the buzz around Trinidad & Tobago Carnival, what’s happening around the region, and much more.

It also highlights the new Caribbean Beat website (which I’ve been working on since 2009!) and heralds Beat’s five-year anniversary of publishing under Caribbean Airlines, and upcoming 20th anniversary issue this March/April.

And of course, you can keep up to date with all the action via our newsletter; via Twitter; and via the Facebook pages for Discover Trinidad & Tobago and Caribbean Beat.

We hope the new year has started well for you! Stay tuned for our favourite soca picks for Carnival 2012 thus far…!