In the qui­et, wind­ing stretch of Guayagua­yare Road, where co­conut trees cast shad­ows over child­hood dreams, a young girl once danced bare­foot in her yard—un­aware that her pas­sion for move­ment and her love for chil­dren would one day rip­ple across class­rooms, com­mu­ni­ties and Caribbean stages. To­day, that girl is Nel­isha “Ny­la” Mo­hammed, new­ly named TTUTA Young Teacher of the Year 2025 for the South East­ern Dis­trict, and a ris­ing force in ed­u­ca­tion and cul­ture.

On Sat­ur­day night, The En­chant­ed Book­shop leapt off the page and on­to the stage at Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do, in a mag­i­cal pro­duc­tion pre­sent­ed by the Na­tive Caribbean Foun­da­tion, found­ed by Mar­lon and Jenif­fer Es­pinoza.

“I thought about the hard­est pos­si­ble thing I could do. I con­sid­ered climb­ing Mount Kil­i­man­jaro… but I al­ready bought a bike… so I went with Iron­man.”

Con­tes­tants of the Miss Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Pageant dis­played a beau­ti­ful se­lec­tion of evening gowns at the Ciprai­ni Labour Col­lege, Val­sayn, re­cent­ly.

The Na­tion­al Panora­ma Sin­gle Pan pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion ran from No­vem­ber 12 to 20, fea­tur­ing 48 bands, in­clud­ing three mil­i­tary en­sem­bles — Fire, Reg­i­ment and Po­lice. Al­so cap­tur­ing wide­spread at­ten­tion was the youngest com­peti­tor in Panora­ma his­to­ry: a five-year-old per­form­ing on the small­est pan ever played at the event. Pan Trin­ba­go has apt­ly dubbed him “The Lit­tle Mozart of Pan.”

If Shinel­ly James could have her way, there would be in­clu­sion in ed­u­ca­tion at schools in T&T—from the pre-school to sec­ondary lev­el.

Stu­dents from The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts lit up the stage at Queen’s Hall’s Win­nifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um, un­leash­ing the Rhythm of Cul­ture in a cel­e­bra­tion of Caribbean and di­as­poric her­itage.

No­body tru­ly ex­pect­ed the No­vem­ber 23 “Headley Show” to run for the ap­point­ed two hours at the UWI School in St Au­gus­tine as ad­ver­tised.

One of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most dis­tin­guished vo­cal­ists, Char­maine Forde, steps bold­ly back in­to cen­tre stage this De­cem­ber with a tril­o­gy of con­certs ho­n­our­ing more than four decades of mu­si­cal ex­cel­lence. Pro­duced by cul­tur­al cu­ra­tor Richard Young, the se­ries of­fers an in­ti­mate, pow­er­ful en­counter with a Caribbean icon whose artistry con­tin­ues to tran­scend trends, bor­ders, and gen­er­a­tions.

The bounce in his step as he dances to the mu­sic of the Mighty Spar­row be­lies his age, and the sat­is­fac­tion on his face as he sips his rum and coke is a dead give­away of his T&T roots.

“I say with con­vic­tion that Alette Liz Williams is en­ter­ing a new chap­ter of her life. It’s about un­leash­ing! No more hold­ing back. No more wa­ter­ing down – just walk­ing ful­ly in what God has al­ready or­dained for me: bold, clear, and un­stop­pable.”

For over 62 years, gen­er­a­tions of faith­ful pa­trons have de­clared: “Christ­mas be­gins with the Mar­i­onettes!” This De­cem­ber, the Mar­i­onettes Chorale re­turns to Queen’s Hall’s Winifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um from De­cem­ber 5 to 7, invit­ing au­di­ences to ring in the sea­son with their beloved hol­i­day tra­di­tion—a con­cert se­ries that con­tin­ues to warm hearts across the coun­try.