Five years may not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but for breast can­cer sur­vivor Sade Weekes, it could very well have been a life­time filled with many changes–some bad, but some not so bad.

My name is NICOLE DRAY­TON. I’m a proud Trinida­di­an, a daugh­ter, a sis­ter, a friend—and now, a breast can­cer sur­vivor.

When Joshua Singh, a 27-year-old pas­try chef from Diego Mar­tin, stepped on­to the stage at the Caribbean Bak­ing Awards 2025—Ul­ti­mate Bake Off Com­pe­ti­tion in the British Vir­gin Is­lands ear­li­er this year, he car­ried more than just tools and in­gre­di­ents. He car­ried the dreams of a young man who turned loss in­to pur­pose, chal­lenges in­to mo­ti­va­tion, and hum­ble be­gin­nings in­to re­gion­al vic­to­ry.

Fiona Branker is a cer­ti­fied women’s fit­ness train­er with more than 15 years of ex­pe­ri­ence. As a cer­ti­fied nu­tri­tion and weight man­age­ment coach, work­outs are part of her dai­ly rou­tine. But when she be­gan ex­pe­ri­enc­ing heart pal­pi­ta­tions dur­ing one ses­sion, she knew some­thing was wrong.

On Oc­to­ber 19, Goa­to­berTT ig­nites the culi­nary scene with Feasts of Fire—billed as one of 2025’s most dis­tinc­tive food events. This “Fes­ti­val of Goat” unites three pow­er­house fe­male chefs who will show­case the ver­sa­til­i­ty of one of the Caribbean’s favourite meats in bold, cre­ative ways.

Tu­na­puna Tipi­ca was on hand to pro­vide in­struc­tion un­der the di­rec­tion of young steel­pan phe­nom Den­zell Headley, as some of the na­tion’s lead­ing school bands dis­played the dis­ci­pline, en­er­gy, and cre­ativ­i­ty that con­tin­ue to de­fine the na­tion­al in­stru­ment.

Dr Shad Gob­ins­ingh al­most didn’t make it back from In­dia. Strand­ed for months in re­mote re­gions at the height of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, he found him­self cut off from civil­i­sa­tion, nav­i­gat­ing strict lock­downs and liv­ing near ar­eas of con­flict while con­duct­ing ar­chae­o­log­i­cal field­work.

The Fe­lic­i­ty Ram­leela and Cul­tur­al Group is cel­e­brat­ing its 110th an­nu­al Ram­leela at the Green Park Recre­ation Ground this year, run­ning from Oc­to­ber 3-13.

Near­ly eight decades af­ter its roots were plant­ed in the British cap­i­tal, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is re­turn­ing to Lon­don with a cel­e­bra­tion of the re­gion’s bright­est minds and bold­est achieve­ments. On No­vem­ber 7, the his­toric Ho­n­ourable So­ci­ety of Lin­coln’s Inn will host the sec­ond UWI Lon­don Ben­e­fit Din­ner un­der the theme “Ed­u­cate to El­e­vate.”

It was a vi­brant cel­e­bra­tion of colour, cre­ativ­i­ty, and Caribbean flair at the Cre­ative Arts Cen­tre in San Fer­nan­do when fash­ion en­thu­si­asts came to­geth­er to mark Re­pub­lic Day in un­for­get­table style.

Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month be­gins this week, on Oc­to­ber 1, a time ded­i­cat­ed to ed­u­ca­tion, ear­ly de­tec­tion, and sav­ing lives. As the pink rib­bon takes cen­tre stage this week, the call is clear: aware­ness must lead to ac­tion, and screen­ing re­mains our strongest weapon in the fight against breast can­cer.

On the night of Sep­tem­ber 26, 2005, Shelly Dass and her co-an­chor Car­la Foder­ing­ham sat in CNC3’s stu­dio. Make-up done, scripts ready, and cam­eras about to roll. With min­utes to go be­fore the new sta­tion’s de­but 7 pm news­cast, the plug was pulled due to li­cens­ing is­sues that hadn’t got­ten fi­nal ap­proval.