My name is NICOLE DRAY­TON. I’m a proud Trinida­di­an, a daugh­ter, a sis­ter, a friend—and now, a breast can­cer sur­vivor.

Once up­on a time, the idea of pre­vent­ing breast can­cer would have sound­ed like a fan­ta­sy. In fact, many peo­ple still be­lieve it is not pos­si­ble. But the truth is, we can. Over the last decade, sig­nif­i­cant re­search has shown not on­ly that breast can­cer can be cured, but that it can al­so be pre­vent­ed.

When Lisa Agard as­sumed the role of pres­i­dent of the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Fo­rum of Trinidad and To­ba­go (IWFTT) on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 5, 2025, she brought with her a ca­reer de­fined by trail­blaz­ing lead­er­ship, re­silience, and vi­sion. With over 27 years of ex­pe­ri­ence across telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, me­dia, and law, Agard em­bod­ies the very spir­it of the or­gan­i­sa­tion she now leads–one com­mit­ted to ad­vanc­ing ex­em­plary lead­er­ship and cham­pi­oning equal­i­ty for women in T&T and be­yond.

The first in a se­ries on African women writ­ers whose lives and work re­shaped the con­ti­nent’s lit­er­a­ture.

Tu­na­puna Tipi­ca was on hand to pro­vide in­struc­tion un­der the di­rec­tion of young steel­pan phe­nom Den­zell Headley, as some of the na­tion’s lead­ing school bands dis­played the dis­ci­pline, en­er­gy, and cre­ativ­i­ty that con­tin­ue to de­fine the na­tion­al in­stru­ment.

On Oc­to­ber 19, Goa­to­berTT ig­nites the culi­nary scene with Feasts of Fire—billed as one of 2025’s most dis­tinc­tive food events. This “Fes­ti­val of Goat” unites three pow­er­house fe­male chefs who will show­case the ver­sa­til­i­ty of one of the Caribbean’s favourite meats in bold, cre­ative ways.

Dr Shad Gob­ins­ingh al­most didn’t make it back from In­dia. Strand­ed for months in re­mote re­gions at the height of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, he found him­self cut off from civil­i­sa­tion, nav­i­gat­ing strict lock­downs and liv­ing near ar­eas of con­flict while con­duct­ing ar­chae­o­log­i­cal field­work.

The Al­liance Française of T&T (AFTT) wel­comed fam­i­lies, stu­dents, and cul­tur­al en­thu­si­asts on Sep­tem­ber 20 for its an­nu­al French Open Day, cel­e­brat­ing the rich­ness of the French lan­guage and cul­ture.

Near­ly eight decades af­ter its roots were plant­ed in the British cap­i­tal, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is re­turn­ing to Lon­don with a cel­e­bra­tion of the re­gion’s bright­est minds and bold­est achieve­ments. On No­vem­ber 7, the his­toric Ho­n­ourable So­ci­ety of Lin­coln’s Inn will host the sec­ond UWI Lon­don Ben­e­fit Din­ner un­der the theme “Ed­u­cate to El­e­vate.”

The Fe­lic­i­ty Ram­leela and Cul­tur­al Group is cel­e­brat­ing its 110th an­nu­al Ram­leela at the Green Park Recre­ation Ground this year, run­ning from Oc­to­ber 3-13.

It was a vi­brant cel­e­bra­tion of colour, cre­ativ­i­ty, and Caribbean flair at the Cre­ative Arts Cen­tre in San Fer­nan­do when fash­ion en­thu­si­asts came to­geth­er to mark Re­pub­lic Day in un­for­get­table style.

The vi­brant pulse of Caribbean cre­ativ­i­ty re­turned to New York Fash­ion Week (NYFW) on Sep­tem­ber 14, as Pho­to-Syn­the­sis De­signs staged a breath­tak­ing Spring/Sum­mer 2026 pre­sen­ta­tion, “Long Time,” on the 7th-floor ter­race at 335 Madi­son Av­enue.