When Sarah Kerr was a very young child, she cried and prayed for God to help oth­ers—even as she, too, des­per­ate­ly need­ed help.

Pre­pare to be trans­port­ed from the every­day to the ex­tra­or­di­nary as &5678 Dance Stu­dio presents its 2025 pro­duc­tion, Out­ta This World, a mes­meris­ing jour­ney through the cos­mos of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

At 23, Alex­ia St Bernard stands at the fore­front of a new wave of her­itage guardians—young Caribbean schol­ars de­ter­mined to pro­tect, rein­ter­pret, and re-imag­ine the sto­ries that shape us.

Trudy Dais­ley has Trinidad and To­ba­go crav­ing her culi­nary cre­ations. Suc­cu­lent roast­ed chick­en, grilled fish and lamb, pick­led veg­eta­bles, and rich pump­kin soup paired with soft, fresh­ly baked bread—what­ev­er she pre­pares, she shares it with her thou­sands of fol­low­ers on Tik­Tok.

arang on the grounds of the St Michael’s RC Church in Mara­cas Val­ley is an un­miss­able an­nu­al event for hard­core fol­low­ers of the sea­son­al genre, gen­er­al mu­sic lovers, and those in­ter­est­ed in one of the more aes­thet­i­cal­ly out­stand­ing parang venues in the coun­try.

On Sun­day, bird­song Steel­band will host its an­nu­al two-hour Christ­mas on Cam­pus con­cert from 6 pm at the Old Works Build­ing, Agos­ti­ni Street, St Au­gus­tine—promis­ing “a night of mu­sic and fes­tive cheer.” Ad­mis­sion is free, and the setlists from the bird­song Acad­e­my En­sem­bles, along with guest per­form­ers UWI Arts Chorale and Los Par­ran­deros de UWI, are ex­pect­ed to be fit for roy­al­ty.

Every­thing in­clud­ing and be­tween bake and shark at Mara­cas Bay, a net­work­ing ses­sion with T&T cre­atives and me­dia, and a vis­it to Mu­si­cal In­stru­ments of T&T Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (MITTCO) were re­cent­ly crammed in­to a hec­tic sched­ule for vis­it­ing so­cial me­dia con­tent pro­duc­ers host­ed by the Mu­sic Unit of Glob­al T&T.

T&T-based dig­i­tal ad­ver­tis­ing agency 10 Caribbean has earned a pres­ti­gious An­gel Award from the Amer­i­can Ad­ver­tis­ing Fed­er­a­tion (AAF) Dis­trict 4, recog­nis­ing ex­cel­lence in pub­lic ser­vice and cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty across Flori­da and the Caribbean.

It’s been a busy sea­son of road runs and walks: 1K, 5K, 6K, 10K, half-marathons, and marathons in a few cas­es. The pop­u­lar­i­ty of these events has sur­prised me. We are com­ing up to one year of Fit­ness Week­ly, which start­ed at the be­gin­ning of 2025, to cap­ture the post-Christ­mas/New Year mood to get fit and work off the fes­tive fat.

Dozens of peo­ple flocked to Mille Fleurs re­cent­ly for the Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­nu­al Ponche de Creme, Parang and Pan—a beloved cel­e­bra­tion of her­itage, cul­ture and Christ­mas spir­it at the his­toric house over­look­ing the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

A school­teacher and a sec­ondary stu­dent were cel­e­brat­ed by CIBC Caribbean for their care, kind­ness, and com­mu­ni­ty spir­it as the first and sec­ond-place win­ners of the T&T leg of the Un­sung He­roes pro­gramme.

Har­ris Prom­e­nade re­ceived a long-await­ed facelift on No­vem­ber 18. The space was trans­formed in­to a strik­ing open-air cul­tur­al show­case dur­ing San Fer­nan­do City Month (No­vem­ber 1–30) cel­e­bra­tions.