The sto­ry of Am­i­na Blake-Fore­man be­gins on the south­ern tip of Trinidad, in Fyz­abad, where en­tre­pre­neur­ial sparks were al­ready fly­ing by the time she turned sev­en. Back then, she was sell­ing spices from Grena­da—an ear­ly sign of a girl who would grow in­to a woman de­ter­mined to do more than just make a liv­ing. She was on a path to cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ty.

Yes­ter­day marked the 10th an­niver­sary of World Man­grove Day–a UN­ESCO-adopt­ed day aim­ing to raise aware­ness about the im­por­tance of man­grove ecosys­tems and pro­mote their sus­tain­able man­age­ment, con­ser­va­tion, and use.

At just 21 years old, Is­abelle Laquis is al­ready leav­ing a lega­cy of im­pact across Trinidad and To­ba­go. Now go­ing in­to her fourth year at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mi­a­mi, Laquis is the co-founder of Let’s Give Back, a non­prof­it born at the height of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2020.

When Bran­don Beck­with set out to cre­ate the most cul­tur­al­ly di­verse al­bum ever made, he didn’t ex­pect to stum­ble up­on a cel­e­bra­tion that would re­shape his world­view: Eman­ci­pa­tion Day.

Mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­er Pas­tor Luke Quam­i­na be­lieves the up­com­ing CeCe Winans: More Than This Trinidad con­cert is ar­riv­ing at ex­act­ly the right mo­ment for a na­tion in need of hope.

The Em­bassy of the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea host­ed a spec­tac­u­lar cul­tur­al event at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) to com­mem­o­rate the 40th an­niver­sary of diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions be­tween Ko­rea and T&T.

On Ju­ly 13, fash­ion de­sign­er Daron­té Guade­loupe un­veiled his lat­est mas­ter­piece, Feel­ings: The Col­lec­tion, dur­ing an in­ti­mate run­way show that cap­ti­vat­ed a hand­picked au­di­ence of fash­ion con­nois­seurs. The night was one of raw emo­tion, bold artistry, and un­for­get­table style—a cel­e­bra­tion not just of fash­ion, but of mem­o­ry, mean­ing, and the en­dur­ing pow­er of self-ex­pres­sion.

“Trinidad and To­ba­go, get ready to show your love for the great­est ca­lyp­son­ian to ever walk this earth—the Mighty Spar­row, the Ca­lyp­so King of the World,” de­clares Spek­taku­la Pro­mo­tions, pro­duc­ers of the up­com­ing trib­ute con­certs Thank You Spar­row.

From June 27 to 29, the stage of Queen’s Hall pulsed with move­ment, mem­o­ry, and mean­ing as the As­tor John­son Reper­to­ry Dance The­atre (AJRDT) pre­sent­ed She Too, a pow­er­ful week­end of per­for­mances root­ed in the themes of con­ti­nu­ity, cre­ativ­i­ty, and com­mu­ni­ty.

The wait is over—it’s time to bowl! Pres­tige Lanes of­fi­cial­ly opened its doors at the C3 Cen­tre last Fri­day, bring­ing a world-class bowl­ing ex­pe­ri­ence to south Trinidad.

Dr Kam­la Dhyani’s jour­ney is a pow­er­ful blend of pur­pose, pas­sion and per­se­ver­ance. Orig­i­nal­ly hail­ing from In­dia, Dr Dhyani’s work has tran­scend­ed bound­aries in the de­vel­op­ment and en­rich­ment of the per­form­ing arts both in T&T and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

On Au­gust 20, Vic­to­ria Am­ri­ta Ma­haraj will per­form at the Kali Ya­tra Fes­ti­val 2025. It will be an­oth­er ma­jor step in her mu­si­cal jour­ney, one that has been rich in cul­tur­al his­to­ry and en­dur­ing lega­cy. The 25 year old is quick­ly ris­ing as one of the most promi­nent In­do-Trinida­di­an mu­si­cians in the coun­try. From vo­cals to the vi­o­lin, Ma­haraj has been per­form­ing at mi­nor and ma­jor events across the na­tion.