Af­ter a 17-year ab­sence, Tri­ni-Cana­di­an film­mak­er, song­writer, and cre­ative vi­sion­ary Gi­no McK­oy has re­turned to T&T with a mis­sion—to help trans­form the coun­try in­to the “Hol­ly­wood of the Caribbean.”

For most of her life, Aisha Man­rique has fol­lowed what she calls “the voice of God” — a path that has led her to be­come a voice of God at ma­jor events and now one of just ten voice artists world­wide to win a pres­ti­gious schol­ar­ship from the So­ci­ety of Voice Arts and Sci­ences (SO­VAS) and Source El­e­ments. The award al­so comes with an in­vi­ta­tion to the an­nu­al Voice Arts Awards, of­ten de­scribed as the Os­cars of voice act­ing.

On Tues­day, the Kali Ya­tra Fes­ti­val re­turns to the Di­vali Na­gar — now recog­nised as one of the largest Hin­du fes­ti­vals out­side of In­dia. This week-long cel­e­bra­tion is ded­i­cat­ed to God­dess Kali, but its roots run deep.

Fifty-five years ago, then-Eng­lish Lan­guage and Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture teacher at Na­pari­ma Boys’ Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, James Lee Wah, saw more than aca­d­e­m­ic po­ten­tial in his stu­dents—many of whom were sim­ply wait­ing for the next ex­am.

The Caribbean School of Danc­ing staged its third an­nu­al As­pir­ing Chore­o­g­ra­phers show­case on Au­gust 2 at the Lit­tle Carib The­atre.

Cur­ry duck com­pe­ti­tions have been a beloved tra­di­tion in T&T since the late 1990s, par­tic­u­lar­ly in cen­tral Trinidad where the dish is a culi­nary sta­ple. Blend­ing East In­di­an her­itage with the na­tion’s vi­brant com­pet­i­tive spir­it, these events draw large crowds ea­ger for a day of flavour, show­man­ship, and com­mu­ni­ty ca­ma­raderie.

Jazz vo­cal­ist Vaugh­nette Big­ford was moved to tears dur­ing a heart­felt ren­di­tion of Mem­o­ry of Your Smile as she paid trib­ute to late cul­tur­al and mu­si­cal lu­mi­nar­ies Kay Al­leyne, Mori­cia Ca­gan, Pat­ti Rogers, Raf Robert­son, Clive Zan­da, Arthur Lewis, Mar­lon De Bique, and her grand­fa­ther. This emo­tion­al mo­ment was a high­light of her EMO­JA con­cert, held on Au­gust 2 at the Na­pari­ma Bowl.

In a world of­ten shaped by rou­tine and rigid ex­pec­ta­tions, Col­in Matthew Reg­is, bet­ter known as “Cre­ative Matt”, chose to carve out a life de­fined by imag­i­na­tion, pur­pose, and re­silience.

From Laven­tille to Lon­don, Port-of-Spain to Paris, Michelle Hug­gins-Watts has car­ried the rhythm of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go to the world through the steel­pan.

From bak­ing cheese­cake dis­creet­ly to fund­ing her ed­u­ca­tion, 24-year-old Keiris Har­ris has turned qui­et de­ter­mi­na­tion in­to a recipe for suc­cess. Born in east Trinidad to Kei­th Har­ris and Joanne Der­rick-Har­ris, she en­joyed a mod­est child­hood, find­ing joy in the every­day things.

When Faith Cyrus’s par­ents named her, it was more than an ar­bi­trary name se­lec­tion; it was a de­c­la­ra­tion. Af­ter two sons, they held on­to faith that their third child would be a girl. The man­i­fes­ta­tion of that hope be­came her name and, in many ways, her sto­ry.

They call him Flash—not just be­cause he’s fast, but be­cause there’s some­thing hero­ic in the way he runs: bold, de­ter­mined, and im­pos­si­ble to ig­nore.