While most as­so­ciate Las Cuevas with qui­et sea baths, the east­ern side of this bay holds a se­cret trea­sure.

When glob­al pro­fes­sor of dance Pe­ter Lon­don was a youth, he brought to Amer­i­ca some his­to­ry of tra­di­tion­al dances he learned while grow­ing up in his na­tive coun­try, Trinidad, and im­me­di­ate­ly won the hearts of the di­rec­tors of the pres­ti­gious in­ter­na­tion­al dance com­pa­nies Alvin Ai­ley and Martha Gra­ham.

“It is Tou­s­saint’s supreme mer­it that while he saw Eu­ro­pean civil­i­sa­tion as a valu­able and nec­es­sary thing, and strove to lay its foun­da­tions among his peo­ple, he nev­er had the il­lu­sion that it con­ferred any moral su­pe­ri­or­i­ty. He knew French, British, and Span­ish im­pe­ri­al­ists for the in­sa­tiable gang­sters that they were, that there is no oath too sa­cred for them to break, no crime, de­cep­tion, treach­ery, cru­el­ty, de­struc­tion of hu­man life and prop­er­ty which they would not com­mit against those who could not de­fend them­selves… Yet when the mass­es turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyran­ny of cen­turies, not on­ly the tyrants but all ‘civil­i­sa­tion’ holds up its hands in hor­ror and clam­ours for ‘or­der’ to be re­stored. If a rev­o­lu­tion car­ries high over­head ex­pens­es, most of them it in­her­its from the greed of re­ac­tionar­ies and the cow­ardice of the so-called mod­er­ates. Long be­fore abo­li­tion, the mis­chief had been done in the French colonies and it was not abo­li­tion but the re­fusal to abol­ish which had done it.”

At just sev­en years old, most chil­dren are mas­ter­ing the art of ty­ing their shoelaces or mem­o­ris­ing their times ta­bles. But for Se­bas­t­ian Ho­sein, a Stan­dard One stu­dent, the list of ac­com­plish­ments al­ready reads like a re­sume for a bud­ding poly­math.

From suc­cu­lent meats to airy and but­tery bakes, crisp chunky veg­eta­bles to deca­dent desserts, the 31-year-old shy Ba­lan­dra res­i­dent’s dish­es speak on her be­half, telling sto­ries of a well-honed craft de­vel­oped through pas­sion, care, and the con­sis­ten­cy of serv­ing up de­light­ful meals to her fam­i­ly, friends, and guests at her work­place at the Queen’s Beach Saly­bia Na­ture Re­sort.

We tend to of­ten think of weight as an over­all num­ber and in­di­ca­tor for health. The truth is that BMI is known as body mass in­dex and in­di­cates ap­pro­pri­ate weight for height, but what is your weight made of? We tend not to look at the en­tire pic­ture. A bet­ter mea­sure­ment that can be used to as­sess long-term health is called vis­cer­al fat. Weight is just a num­ber, and so is BMI.

For decades, so­cial his­to­ri­an and au­thor Jazad Ali has been doc­u­ment­ing long-for­got­ten as­pects of the na­tion’s his­to­ry through stamps and slo­gan post­marks —tiny im­prints on mail that once car­ried pow­er­ful na­tion­al mes­sages. That painstak­ing work has now earned him nine pres­ti­gious in­ter­na­tion­al medals across ex­hi­bi­tions in the Unit­ed States, Eu­rope and Asia, plac­ing T&T’s postal his­to­ry firm­ly on the glob­al phi­lat­el­ic stage.

At WAND’S 2026 fundrais­er themed “Bub­bles and Benev­o­lence —A Tea Par­ty Af­fair” on May 16 at the new­ly launched ban­quet venue, Le Rêve, at C3, guests were wel­comed in­to a charm­ing Bridger­ton-in­spired at­mos­phere, com­plete with en­chant­i­ng live cel­lo per­for­mances by Wa­sia Ward.

Dis­tance has done lit­tle to dull Nicholas Hug­gins’ con­nec­tion to home. Al­though the 36-year-old Cre­ative Di­rec­tor has spent the last three months, 4,400 miles away in the UK, he has kept his fo­cus firm­ly on Trinidad through a 30-day Street View chal­lenge.

The hid­den truth of our lives is of­ten framed as a de­c­la­ra­tion to leave the past in the past, but this was not the case for An­cil Rooplal, a Vi­su­al Arts Sec­ondary School art teacher who used the can­vas to un­earth his past.

This comedic fact was shared by reign­ing Ca­lyp­so Monarch Ter­ri Lyons as she beamed with moth­er­ly pride. She was not talk­ing about a ri­val ca­lyp­son­ian, but rather the bright­est and newest star in her house­hold — her son, Math­ias Supreme Lyons For­tune.

El­e­gance, glam­our and celebri­ty sparkle filled Achie­vors Ban­quet Hall in San Fer­nan­do on May 16, as the Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion, in part­ner­ship with the Meena House Fine Din­ing Restau­rant, rolled out the red car­pet for its fundrais­ing “Fash­ion­ista” event.