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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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 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.

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.

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.

When your life changes in an in­stant, there’s no warn­ing—just a mo­ment that splits time in­to be­fore and af­ter. For me, NICOLE DRAY­TON, it hap­pened in a bath­room on a qui­et Sun­day morn­ing. This is my jour­ney through breast can­cer, which I am shar­ing in parts: raw, un­fil­tered, and root­ed in faith. It’s not just a sto­ry about di­ag­no­sis—it’s about strength, fear, iso­la­tion, small mir­a­cles, and the pow­er of com­mu­ni­ty.

Four weeks be­fore Jamie Sabeeney was due to grad­u­ate in 2023, she re­ceived the most dev­as­tat­ing news of her life. The usu­al emo­tions that come with com­plet­ing uni­ver­si­ty, those of joy and ac­com­plish­ment, were over­shad­owed by a stage 2B Hodgkin’s lym­phoma di­ag­no­sis. It up­end­ed her en­tire world.