At 61, Alana Mo­hammed is ap­proach­ing re­tire­ment af­ter a long ca­reer as an ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tant, ready to em­brace the next chap­ter of her life. Raised in Vista­bel­la, San Fer­nan­do, she fond­ly re­calls a child­hood shaped by fam­i­ly val­ues, de­ter­mi­na­tion, and com­mu­ni­ty. With three chil­dren—and one fur ba­by—Mo­hammed ra­di­ates a spir­it she de­scribes as high, hap­py, and pos­i­tive. But her sto­ry goes be­yond sur­viv­ing can­cer; it’s about con­fronting it with un­wa­ver­ing courage.

So, al­low me to in­tro­duce my­self. I am Krisann Be­dassie—proud­ly the first Trin­bag­on­ian ever ad­mit­ted to the Yale Young Glob­al Schol­ars (YYGS) pro­gramme. And be­cause of the gen­eros­i­ty of my fel­low cit­i­zens and friends across bor­ders, I am al­so the first to at­tend.

Staffers from the lat­est Courts Busi­ness So­lu­tions (CBS) show­room at Gulf City Mall, Low­lands, are promis­ing to be­come a vi­tal re­source for com­mer­cial clients in To­ba­go.

CG Unit­ed In­sur­ance has suc­cess­ful­ly con­clud­ed its 2025 group-wide sum­mer in­tern­ship pro­gramme, which spanned six ju­ris­dic­tions: Bermu­da, Cay­man, The Ba­hamas, Bar­ba­dos, T&T and Ja­maica.

For more than two cen­turies, Den­mark ruled St Thomas, St John, and St Croix—the Dan­ish West In­dies. St. Thomas came un­der Dan­ish con­trol in 1671, St. John in 1718, and St. Croix was pur­chased from France in 1733. Their economies de­pend­ed on the transat­lantic slave trade and the ex­port of sug­ar, rum, and mo­lasses, with en­slaved Africans far out­num­ber­ing Eu­ro­peans. Re­sis­tance was con­stant, in­clud­ing the 1733 St John re­volt, which was vi­o­lent­ly sup­pressed.

When the Book­er Prize longlist was an­nounced at the end of Ju­ly, Love Forms by T&T–born au­thor Claire Adam was among the 13 ti­tles named — a recog­ni­tion that still feels sur­re­al to her weeks lat­er.

Do you like air­planes? Does the idea of fly­ing ex­cite you? Or do you sim­ply mar­vel at the in­ge­nu­ity of an air­craft?

Ar­lette Wig­gins loves steel­pan so much, peo­ple say she eats, sleeps, and breathes it! Her mot­to?

In a world where cli­mate change and sus­tain­abil­i­ty are of­ten buried in dense re­ports and in­ac­ces­si­ble sta­tis­tics, one T&T non-prof­it is break­ing through the noise with some­thing far more pow­er­ful: sto­ries.

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.”

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.

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.