Den­im, di­a­monds and a whole lot of danc­ing took over Club VICE last Sat­ur­day night as WAND (Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute) host­ed its an­nu­al Den­im & Di­a­monds fundrais­ing par­ty, at­tract­ing more than 500 guests for a night of mu­sic, cock­tails, sparkle and se­ri­ous fun.

For San­gre Grande-born singer and song­writer Coutain, the jour­ney from T&T’s vi­brant mu­sic scene to in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion has en­tered an ex­cit­ing new chap­ter.

On Tri­cia Cony­ers’s jour­ney to com­plet­ing her de­but book, Con­fi­dence Is Ac­tion, her biggest op­po­nent was Pat.

Spa days of­ten leave us feel­ing re­freshed, re­ju­ve­nat­ed and ready to con­quer the world. Now, thanks to Tai­lored Tails Vet­eri­nary Clin­ic and Groom­ing Spa, pets in Point Fortin and en­vi­rons can en­joy those same feel­ings.

Ten years af­ter first meet­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T), Japan­ese so­ca singer Ann G (An­gel­la Gius­ti­ni) and reg­gae star HAN-KUN (Takuro Han­za­wa) have re­unit­ed on a T&T-pro­duced track where so­ca, reg­gae and pan meet.

At 37, Leeann Dass is prov­ing that step­ping out­side one’s com­fort zone can open the door to an en­tire­ly new chap­ter in life.

When it comes to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­ture, Pro­fes­sor Hol­lis Liv­er­pool can talk to you for days about it. Bet­ter known as The Mighty Chalk­dust, he start­ed singing ca­lyp­so pro­fes­sion­al­ly in 1967 and he hasn’t stopped telling sto­ries since.

Af­ter more than a decade of cre­at­ing a move­ment to help re­move the stig­ma around cannabis use, lo­cal en­tre­pre­neur Quilin “Em­press Q” Achat and her brand, Stay Calm It’s a Plant, are re­ceiv­ing in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion, of­fi­cial­ly se­cur­ing a nom­i­na­tion for the 2026 Cana­di­an Cannabis Tourism Awards.

weet steel­pan mu­sic filled the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) on Sun­day evening as the Caribbean Mu­sic Awards cel­e­brat­ed T&T’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment and icons of the fra­ter­ni­ty.

“I don’t think I could hon­est­ly say that I en­vi­sioned this ca­reer path when I first start­ed out,” says Deb­bie-Ann Ot­t­ley, who grew up want­i­ng to be­come a lawyer. She even ob­tained a diplo­ma in the field in her ear­ly 20s.

Born in San Fer­nan­do, Trinidad, on Au­gust 8, 1918, Noor Mo­hammed Has­sanali was the sixth of sev­en chil­dren in an In­do-Trinida­di­an Mus­lim fam­i­ly. He re­ceived his pri­ma­ry ed­u­ca­tion at Canaan and Corinth Cana­di­an Mis­sion Pres­by­ter­ian schools be­fore at­tend­ing Na­pari­ma Col­lege in San Fer­nan­do. In 1937, he formed part of Na­pari­ma’s his­toric first High­er School Cer­tifi­cate grad­u­at­ing class, earn­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Latin, Ge­og­ra­phy, Eng­lish, and French.

The fol­low­ing is a mes­sage from Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo on the oc­ca­sion of Re­pub­lic Day 2026.