T he stage is set for one of the most dy­nam­ic Toron­to Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tions yet on Au­gust 1, fol­low­ing of­fi­cial con­fir­ma­tion that the On­tario Steel­band As­so­ci­a­tion (OSA) has, for the first time, part­nered with Pan Trin­ba­go Inc. The an­nu­al com­pe­ti­tion, which be­gan in 2003, will mark a his­toric chap­ter in Cana­da’s steel­pan land­scape.

The steel­pan—of­ten hailed as God’s gift to the world—con­tin­ues to prove it­self might­i­er than the sword. Its ini­tial tri­umph came at the T&T Mu­sic Film Fes­ti­val (TTMFF) 2023, where a doc­u­men­tary cel­e­brat­ing the icon­ic Panazz Play­ers not on­ly be­came a his­toric fes­ti­val fea­ture but al­so won the Peo­ple’s Choice Award.

Ishka­ma Glob­al Change (IGC), a UK-found­ed glob­al move­ment ded­i­cat­ed to per­son­al de­vel­op­ment and pos­i­tive trans­for­ma­tion, will make its de­but vis­it to T&T this week to par­tic­i­pate in the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion’s Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) 2025.

Twen­ty years in the ad­ver­tis­ing in­dus­try is no small feat. Yet BUZZ, a home­grown cre­ative agency, has not on­ly sur­vived but thrived—two decades deep in­to cre­ative hus­tle, strate­gic piv­ots, wild briefs, all-nighters, and count­less tight turn­arounds.

Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute (WAND) host­ed its first Bub­bles and Benev­o­lence Tea on June 5 to a sold-out au­di­ence of loy­al sup­port­ers, af­fec­tion­ate­ly known as “WANDIES.”

TATIL and the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DATT) of­fi­cial­ly kicked off the 2025 edi­tion of their Sixth Form Sum­mer In­tern­ship Pro­gramme with an ori­en­ta­tion on June 28 at DATT’s of­fice in Ch­agua­nas.

To­day, the Caribbean and the wider mu­si­cal world cel­e­brate a his­toric mile­stone, as The Mighty Spar­row (Slinger Fran­cis­co) marks his 90th birth­day.

The CEO of a civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tion, a chair­man of an NGO, and the leader of a woman em­pow­er­ment body com­prise the pan­el of judges who will be re­view­ing nom­i­nees for the T&T leg of the Un­sung He­roes awards.

The Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion and Unit­ed Way T&T (UWTT) have joined forces once again to make do­na­tions of steel­pans to schools, help­ing to pro­mote steel­pan ed­u­ca­tion amongst the youth of T&T and en­abling youth to con­nect with and pre­serve the rich cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty and tra­di­tions of our coun­try.

Show­man­ship and pageantry filled the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah’s North Stand on Sat­ur­day night when the Tribe group of brands un­veiled their 2026 cos­tumes, blend­ing a time-ho­n­oured spec­ta­cle with bold, mod­ern Tri­ni flare.

The 17th An­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Charles Town Ma­roon Con­fer­ence & Fes­ti­val in Ja­maica, held from June 20 to 23, blend­ed cel­e­bra­tion with se­ri­ous di­a­logue on in­dige­nous land and cul­tur­al rights.

The pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Parang As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (NPATT), Ali­cia Jag­gasar has made a strong call for the sur­vival, re­vival, and preser­va­tion of the His­pan­ic art­form.