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.

On the oc­ca­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions’ In­ter­na­tion­al Day for the Elim­i­na­tion of Vi­o­lence Against Women and Girls, Trinre In­sur­ance stood unit­ed with the rest of the world in con­demn­ing all forms of vi­o­lence against women and girls.

Caribbean food—once pi­geon­holed, of­ten mis­un­der­stood, but al­ways loved—is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a re­nais­sance. Across the world’s most com­pet­i­tive food cities, the flavours of the re­gion are step­ping in­to long-over­due recog­ni­tion, buoyed by chefs, cre­ators, and cul­tur­al keep­ers who are re­defin­ing what Caribbean gas­tron­o­my means to­day. At the heart of this move­ment is Nneka Nurse: culi­nary strate­gist, cul­tur­al cu­ra­tor, and the founder of Best Dressed Plate (BDP)—the plat­form now con­sid­ered the glob­al au­thor­i­ty on Caribbean cui­sine.

Car­nat­ic mu­sic is one of the old­est clas­si­cal mu­sic sys­tems in the world, with roots in South In­dia.

“A south girl at heart,” Can­dice Ram­sub­ag Sinanan grew up in south Trinidad, heir to the gift of bak­ing as the daugh­ter and grand­daugh­ter of gen­er­a­tions of gift­ed home bak­ers.

Dr Ca­lene Rose­man and Dr Jes­si­ca Adams Skin­ner have shared a friend­ship that spanned over four decades, hav­ing grown up to­geth­er in Laven­tille, then leav­ing T&T for Amer­i­ca – Rose­man, with the sole pur­pose of see­ing Janet Jack­son.

Dy­nam­ic young tal­ent and ris­ing star Yung Bred­da (Akhen­aton Lewis) is shak­ing up the mu­sic scene once again with the re­lease of a pow­er­ful new so­ca track ti­tled Coul­da, just in time for Christ­mas and the fast-ap­proach­ing Car­ni­val sea­son.

Grow­ing up in a small, peace­ful vil­lage in cen­tral Trinidad, Can­dice Dookree nev­er imag­ined that her love for the out­doors and nat­ur­al cu­rios­i­ty would one day lead her in­to the world of geospa­tial sci­ence. What be­gan as a child­hood shaped by com­mu­ni­ty and crick­et grad­u­al­ly evolved in­to a deep in­ter­est in how places grow, change, and con­nect. To­day, that jour­ney has po­si­tioned her at the fore­front of re­search that could trans­form how Trinidad and To­ba­go plans its ur­ban fu­ture.

Trinidad and To­ba­go–born aca­d­e­m­ic Dr Michael Khan played an in­te­gral role in “a per­fect start to the Fall Con­vo­ca­tion at Saint Mary’s Uni­ver­si­ty,” where he was of­fi­cial­ly in­stalled as the in­sti­tu­tion’s 35th Pres­i­dent and Vice-Chan­cel­lor. The uni­ver­si­ty, lo­cat­ed in Hal­i­fax’s South End in No­va Sco­tia, Cana­da, ap­point­ed Dr Khan on Ju­ly 1. He was for­mal­ly sworn in and took his oath of of­fice on No­vem­ber 13, dur­ing a Con­vo­ca­tion Cer­e­mo­ny.

The Christ­mas spir­it was in full swing when stu­dents of Vista­bel­la Pres­by­ter­ian School took to the stage at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts re­cent­ly with their heart­warm­ing pro­duc­tion of “For God So Loved the World.”

In just 14 months, Frosty Cups Events Artistry has gone from a bold idea to one of Trinidad’s most talked-about pre­mi­um slushie ex­pe­ri­ences, and at the helm is There­sa Noel, the vi­sion­ary founder who is re­defin­ing cre­ative event re­fresh­ment.

In the qui­et, wind­ing stretch of Guayagua­yare Road, where co­conut trees cast shad­ows over child­hood dreams, a young girl once danced bare­foot in her yard—un­aware that her pas­sion for move­ment and her love for chil­dren would one day rip­ple across class­rooms, com­mu­ni­ties and Caribbean stages. To­day, that girl is Nel­isha “Ny­la” Mo­hammed, new­ly named TTUTA Young Teacher of the Year 2025 for the South East­ern Dis­trict, and a ris­ing force in ed­u­ca­tion and cul­ture.