For renowned artist Jack­ie Hink­son, cre­at­ing a piece of work is a qui­et, con­tin­u­ous con­ver­sa­tion be­tween nar­ra­tive and form. Ahead of his up­com­ing ex­hi­bi­tion this No­vem­ber, Hink­son shares a rare look in­to the cre­ative phi­los­o­phy that un­der­pins his decades-span­ning ca­reer and guides his lat­est col­lec­tion.

Pow­er­ful dy­nas­ties from across the world will con­verge on San Fer­nan­do as Fyr­na­tion pre­pares to trans­form the streets in­to a spec­tac­u­lar show­case of colour, cre­ativ­i­ty and re­gal splen­dour for Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day 2027.

Af­ter a sev­en-year hia­tus, the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) is bring­ing back its pop­u­lar Dance and Youth Champ com­pe­ti­tions as part of this year’s Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions.

The aro­ma of fire-roast­ed veg­eta­bles, fresh­ly pre­pared cho­ka and hot sa­da roti filled the Cou­va South Au­di­to­ri­um on Fri­day, Oc­to­ber 23, as em­ploy­ees of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) put their culi­nary skills to the test in the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s first-ever cho­ka cook-out com­pe­ti­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go-born steel­pan mu­si­cian, com­pos­er and arranger Savion Nicholls is set to show­case his ver­sa­til­i­ty in a two-night pro­duc­tion com­bin­ing steel­pan, clas­si­cal voice, pi­ano and in­spi­ra­tional mu­sic at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um.

For some women di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer, surgery is the first thing they fear. The prospect of los­ing a breast can be so over­whelm­ing that they de­lay seek­ing med­ical at­ten­tion, even as a tu­mour grows.

For Seanalee Lazara, her spir­i­tu­al heal­ing was en­hanced by her phys­i­cal heal­ing fol­low­ing an ac­ci­dent nine years ago that left her tem­porar­i­ly bedrid­den.

On any giv­en school morn­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go, class­rooms burst with the fa­mil­iar rhythm of Caribbean life—chil­dren laugh­ing, set­tling in­to lessons and greet­ing their teach­ers with bright en­er­gy. Yet be­neath that vi­bran­cy, a qui­eter cri­sis is un­fold­ing. More of our na­tion’s chil­dren are liv­ing with emo­tion­al dis­tress than ever be­fore, nav­i­gat­ing fear, anx­i­ety, sad­ness and un­cer­tain­ty long be­fore they have the words to de­scribe what they feel.

When To­bag­on­ian Oni­ka Thomp­son-Toney was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer in 2017, her first thought was that she was go­ing to die.

The full term for mol­lus­cum is an­oth­er of those scary med­ical names: mol­lus­cum con­ta­gio­sum (MC), sug­gest­ing that it is high­ly con­ta­gious and has some­thing to do with mol­luscs (snails, slugs, conchs, oys­ters, clams, mus­sels, oc­to­pus­es, etc.). Well, the ill­ness does have some­what of a re­la­tion­ship with wa­ter.

George Thoro­good and the De­stroy­ers made Bad to the Bone sound like an ex­cel­lent con­di­tion in their 1982 clas­sic. In med­i­cine, be­ing bad to the bone can mean a wrist bro­ken on a pave­ment, a ver­te­bra crushed while lift­ing a shop­ping bag, or a hip frac­ture that leads to a fa­tal blood clot, an in­fec­tion caused by im­mo­bil­i­sa­tion, or death.

When Ann-Marie See­baran was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer 22 years ago, the path to re­cov­ery felt in­sur­mount­able. As a sin­gle moth­er, the or­deal test­ed her spir­it to its ab­solute lim­its, ul­ti­mate­ly re­defin­ing how she viewed life it­self.