Af­ter chas­ing the il­lu­sion of a fairy tale for some 13 years, Sreshtha Tewari fi­nal­ly filed for di­vorce. It was a very painful and dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion for Tewari, who was brought up in a Hin­du home—where mar­riage is con­sid­ered a ma­jor mile­stone in the cul­ture. That di­vorce led her to ther­a­py ses­sions, which she de­scribed as the best in­vest­ment in her life.

“I eh know how much years I have. I nev­er go to school to read and write and count. But I know how to work.”

With a stun­ning rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s finest, re­cent Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ate Cameron Ho­sein has used his tal­ent to pro­mote the coun­try on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. Ho­sein has cre­at­ed a book in his se­nior the­sis project (ac­com­pa­nied by an art in­stal­la­tion) doc­u­ment­ing 72 of T&T’s cre­ative minds in the dance, mu­sic, art, fash­ion and the­atre in­dus­tries whose art has im­pact­ed and trans­formed T&T and has even reached out­side of our bor­ders.

From the streets of Trinidad to the dy­nam­ic board­rooms of glob­al For­tune 500 brands, Suzette Wil­son Samuels is a pow­er­house. Her sto­ry is de­fined by cul­ture, courage, and an un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to lift­ing oth­ers.

In 1987, a group of women came to­geth­er to es­tab­lish a Hin­du Women’s Or­gan­i­sa­tion (HWO). The pur­pose of the or­gan­i­sa­tion would be a sim­ple one: work to im­prove the sta­tus of women and girls in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In No­vem­ber of last year, Ni­Na Young Lead­ers, a grass­roots or­gan­i­sa­tion fo­cused on sup­port­ing and hous­ing vic­tims of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go, was in­vit­ed to a con­fer­ence in South Africa to share its pow­er­ful sto­ry.

Mid­way through her ex­hil­a­rat­ing per­for­mance on May 24, Genisa St Hi­laire, bet­ter known as Nisa, threw off her brown patent leather stilet­to heels, and set aside her African Kente cloth-styled fas­ci­na­tor as the tem­per­a­ture in the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um reached fever pitch.

Founder and di­rec­tor of Tabla Sangam, Pun­dit Karan Ram­sun­dar and his wife Ria are ded­i­cat­ed to pre­serv­ing Shashtriya Sangeet - teach­ing and cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents to per­form and share their tal­ent.

T&T mu­si­cal am­bas­sadors, Preedy, Su­cre, Turn­er, Melick, Ravi B, Joshua Re­grel­lo, KMC, La­dy La­va and oth­ers are set to grace the stage at the One Caribbean Uni­ty Mu­sic Fes­ti­val this com­ing week­end. They are all ex­cit­ed to be a part of the cast of this his­toric event. Speak­ing to Over­time Me­dia over the week­end, the 2025

The Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion (RKF) will host a daz­zling fash­ion event, Fash­ion­ista—The Celebri­ty Fash­ion Brunch, at the Achiev­ers Ban­quet Hall in San Fer­nan­do to­mor­row.

For her lit­er­ary de­but, De­vani De­vi Ram­lakhan-Bo­hal trans­formed her life­long pas­sion for writ­ing and cre­ativ­i­ty in­to a po­et­ic ta­pes­try ti­tled 40 Pearls of Love. The re­cent­ly pub­lished an­thol­o­gy, a poignant col­lec­tion of verse, seeks to awak­en the spir­i­tu­al con­scious­ness of its read­ers, invit­ing them to re­con­nect with the purest essence of hu­man ex­is­tence—love.

It was an evening of glitz, glam­our and pure is­land pride on May 18 at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, Ma­coya, for the grand coro­na­tion of Mrs and Miss Uni­verse T&T 2025.