Thou­sands of stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cent­ly cel­e­brat­ed their SEA re­sults and are cur­rent­ly prepar­ing for the Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion, even as the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment (MC­CD) is invit­ing them to chan­nel their en­er­gy, cre­ativ­i­ty and tal­ents in­to one of the coun­try’s most re­spect­ed cul­tur­al pro­grammes.

His work can be found in front of shops, on util­i­ty poles and along busy roads. Yet few know the man be­hind some of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most recog­nis­able hand-paint­ed signs.

Ar­chi­tect Bri­an Lewis is stag­ing his fi­nal pho­to­graph­ic ex­hi­bi­tion, Last Light, at Medul­la Art Gallery.

In 1927, plans were be­ing made by the Trinidad and To­ba­go branch of the Uni­ver­sal Ne­gro Im­prove­ment As­so­ci­a­tion (UNIA) in an­tic­i­pa­tion of Mar­cus Gar­vey’s vis­it to Trinidad.

On Ju­ly 8 at 7.15 pm, one of the world’s most unique­ly hu­mor­ous co­me­di­ans and un­matched artistes, stage-named Bill Trot­man/Trinidad Bill, died at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC), Mt Hope.

At a time when anx­i­ety, so­cial me­dia val­i­da­tion and the pres­sure to con­form are shap­ing an en­tire gen­er­a­tion, Ja­maican gospel pow­er­house Kevin Down­swell be­lieves the Caribbean des­per­ate­ly needs to re­dis­cov­er some­thing far more valu­able than pop­u­lar­i­ty—iden­ti­ty.

Leg­ends, myths and the un­mis­tak­able en­er­gy of Car­ni­val took cen­tre stage as Spir­it Mas un­veiled its pre­sen­ta­tion for Car­ni­val 2027.

Four­teen years af­ter a group of friends col­lab­o­rat­ed to put on a fun J’Ou­vert ex­pe­ri­ence in To­ba­go, a mil­lion-dol­lar busi­ness has been formed, em­ploy­ing hun­dreds of peo­ple.

Bar­ter­ing is a cen­turies-old prac­tice that al­lowed com­mu­ni­ties to ex­change sur­plus goods be­fore the in­tro­duc­tion of stan­dard­ised cur­ren­cy. Now, or­gan­is­ers in San­gre Grande hope to re­vive that spir­it of shar­ing through two Mar­ket Day events aimed at pro­mot­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty, com­mu­ni­ty sup­port and as­sis­tance for those fac­ing eco­nom­ic chal­lenges.

School is of­fi­cial­ly out, which means two months of feed­ing chil­dren around the clock. With the cost of gro­ceries es­ca­lat­ing, par­ents are look­ing for ways to keep the house­hold sat­is­fied with­out dig­ging too deeply in­to their pock­ets.

Ra­men has be­come a sta­ple for uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents not on­ly due to its flavour, but al­so its con­ve­nience and af­ford­abil­i­ty. That’s one of the rea­sons why a lo­cal fam­i­ly-run busi­ness is hop­ing to make cam­pus life a bit eas­i­er for stu­dents by bring­ing the ra­men and com­fort food ex­pe­ri­ence to the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

An­dre Ay­ers does not want his grilled-food busi­ness to re­main what many de­scribe as a “hid­den gem of the South.”