For Dr Sih­lé Le­tren, the crown­ing mo­ment of Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go 2025 was a dream re­alised. A doc­tor by pro­fes­sion and now the coun­try’s newest pageant queen, she grew up in Cunu­pia be­fore mov­ing to Di­a­mond Vale, where she spent most of her teenage years.

The “rhythm of a peo­ple” will come alive on Sat­ur­day at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um when the 8th edi­tion of Crack­ers & Cheese kicks off at 7 pm, fea­tur­ing sev­en stand­out lo­cal artistes backed by the pow­er­house Theron Shaw Project.

On Au­gust 23, 20 steel­pan pi­o­neers were cel­e­brat­ed with the sweet­est notes of ap­pre­ci­a­tion by Friends of Pan Trin­ba­go (FOPT) dur­ing a se­mi-gala lun­cheon at the VIP Lounge, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah. Each ho­n­ouree re­ceived a to­ken of recog­ni­tion, a sump­tu­ous meal, and shared an af­ter­noon filled with li­ba­tions, hugs, and sto­ries.

In her new mem­oir Moth­er Mary Comes to Me, Roy turns in­ward, con­fronting the moth­er who shaped and hurt her

Lo­cat­ed on Trinidad’s north­east­ern coast, the sea­side com­mu­ni­ty of Matu­ra is home to few­er than 1,500 res­i­dents. It boasts a rugged, sprawl­ing coast­line that, for decades, served as a beloved recre­ation­al spot for fam­i­lies, a prime fish­ing ground, and—un­til the 1980s—a haven for poach­ers. Life in Matu­ra was sim­ple, deeply con­nect­ed to the rhythms of the sea and land. Yet be­neath this peace­ful sur­face, a cri­sis was brew­ing.

Nicole Dy­er Grif­fith is no stranger to rein­ven­tion. From her ear­ly ca­reer as a reg­is­tered nurse to her work as a cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions ex­ec­u­tive, from serv­ing in the Sen­ate to lead­ing her non-prof­it, the Oxy­gen with Nicole Foun­da­tion, she has built a life of im­pact across mul­ti­ple spheres. A for­mer Miss Uni­verse T&T, she has car­ried her na­tion’s flag on the world stage while work­ing qui­et­ly at home to cham­pi­on health aware­ness, women’s em­pow­er­ment, and cul­tur­al pride.

From the time she was a child, Sade Flem­ming was drawn to the stage. Whether it was mu­sic, move­ment, or sto­ry­telling, the arts felt less like a choice and more like a call­ing. By 2023, she had set her sights on pur­su­ing mu­si­cal the­atre abroad, ea­ger to sharp­en her skills and im­merse her­self in the world she had al­ways dreamed of.

On­ly peace can bring pros­per­i­ty and de­vel­op­ment, ac­cord­ing to new­ly ap­point­ed Chi­nese Am­bas­sador to T&T, Ren Yang­pan.

Ten young crick­eters from Todd’s Road got the op­por­tu­ni­ty of a life­time re­cent­ly, when they paid a cour­tesy call on Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts.

On Au­gust 29, just over 70 peo­ple from T&T took to the Grand Mar­ket Hall stage at Car­ifes­ta XV in Bar­ba­dos with one pur­pose—to show the re­gion and the world what Trin­bag­on­ian cul­ture is.

Ca­lyp­so was among the ear­li­est gen­res of mu­sic record­ed in Eng­lish in the West­ern Hemi­sphere. It pi­o­neered so­phis­ti­cat­ed rhyming pat­terns, nar­ra­tive song struc­tures, and top­i­cal lyrics—traits that dis­tin­guished it from con­tem­po­ra­ne­ous gen­res like blues and vaude­ville in the late 19th cen­tu­ry. Over time, ca­lyp­so’s in­flu­ence would per­me­ate glob­al mu­sic, in­spir­ing and shap­ing gen­res and cul­tures from reg­gae to so­ca to hip-hop and be­yond.

On the eve of Car­ifes­ta XV, few places could have of­fered a rich­er pre­lude to the re­gion’s pre­mier arts fes­ti­val than Caribbean Brush­strokes Art Gallery, run by Tri­ni art col­lec­tor, cu­ra­tor, and for­mer banker Rae Skin­ner, now based in Bar­ba­dos.