When Carl Ja­cobs, di­rec­tor of live-en­ter­tain­ment in­ti­mate space Kafe Blue, and Louis “Mag­ic Fin­gers” Nurse, di­rec­tor of mu­si­cal out­fit Louis and the Lynx, en­tered Saint Mary’s Col­lege (CIC), nei­ther imag­ined that more than six decades lat­er they would still be bond­ed through mu­sic.

St Joseph’s Con­vent, San Fer­nan­do, burst in­to full hol­i­day mag­ic on De­cem­ber 11, as stu­dents packed the Dr Sis­ter Phyl­lis Wharfe Au­di­to­ri­um for the school’s much-an­tic­i­pat­ed An­nu­al Song and Dance Christ­mas Con­cert and In­ter-House Com­pe­ti­tion, The Star of Beth­le­hem. By the end of the evening, House Blessed Ann Marie had com­plet­ed a clean sweep, cap­tur­ing top ho­n­ours in all three ma­jor cat­e­gories.

Eliz­a­beth Male­na Figueroa us­es her voice to pro­mote noth­ing but good­ness. So whether she is re­spond­ing to Scrunter’s Leroy, ex­plain­ing why she left home to go parang­ing, or croon­ing out one of her reg­gae re­leas­es, her mes­sage is al­ways about love and uni­ty.

The Trin­ba­go Young Starz Acad­e­my U17 boys crick­et team is quick­ly emerg­ing as one of the bright­est prospects in youth crick­et across the re­gion. Filled with raw tal­ent, fierce de­ter­mi­na­tion, and a pas­sion for the game, this young squad em­bod­ies the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go crick­et.

Ritu Menon be­gan writ­ing af­ter the as­sas­si­na­tion of In­di­ra Gand­hi in 1984. Gand­hi, In­dia’s first woman prime min­is­ter and one of its most pow­er­ful po­lit­i­cal fig­ures, was killed at a mo­ment of deep na­tion­al rup­ture, fol­lowed by wide­spread vi­o­lence in North In­dia. The events of that year prompt­ed Menon to ex­am­ine how po­lit­i­cal up­heaval is ab­sorbed and re­mem­bered, par­tic­u­lar­ly by women.

As we look ahead to the new year, Trinidad­Wed­dings.com is ex­cit­ed to re­veal our Top 10 Wed­ding Trends for 2026.

For Shen­nelle Mo­hammed, cre­ativ­i­ty is not a lux­u­ry—it is a call­ing. “Women are very cre­ative, and that qual­i­ty shouldn’t be hid­den,” she says sim­ply, with the con­fi­dence of some­one who has learned to trust her in­ner com­pass. “I’m not afraid to show what I be­lieve in. I’m pas­sion­ate about God, fam­i­ly, good health and unique­ness.”

Wan­da Bernard dis­tinct­ly re­mem­bers walk­ing back on­to the Bish­op Anstey High School (BAHS) com­pound in April 2008 with noth­ing but mere cu­rios­i­ty and a deep de­sire to serve. A grad­u­ate of the school in the late 1980s, she had re­turned sim­ply to at­tend an an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing of the Old Hi­lar­i­ans’ As­so­ci­a­tion, ea­ger to learn what had be­come of the in­sti­tu­tion that shaped her ear­ly life.

In a world filled with over­flow­ing prod­uct shelves, vi­ral hair trends, and 10-step rou­tines that promise in­stant per­fec­tion, the new year in­vites a qui­eter, more in­ten­tion­al ques­tion: What does my hair re­al­ly need?

Parang With Rome once again af­firmed its place on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Christ­mas cal­en­dar as more than 3,000 pa­trons packed the Cipri­ani Labour Col­lege for a high-en­er­gy cel­e­bra­tion of parang mu­sic and fes­tive tra­di­tion.

The &5678 Dance Stu­dio pre­sent­ed its 2025 dance sea­son, Out­ta This World, at the Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do from De­cem­ber 12-14. The vi­su­al­ly stun­ning pro­duc­tion trans­formed the stage in­to a vi­brant cos­mos, trac­ing a jour­ney from earth­ly mo­not­o­ny to ce­les­tial won­der.

The Guardian Need­i­est Cas­es Fund, the old­est reg­is­tered char­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, con­tin­ued its long­stand­ing tra­di­tion of sup­port­ing vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens with its an­nu­al Christ­mas com­mu­ni­ty ini­tia­tive, bring­ing joy and a sense of be­long­ing to chil­dren who would oth­er­wise go with­out sea­son­al cel­e­bra­tions.