Cre­ative di­rec­tor of Co­co Vel­vet In­ter­na­tion­al Fash­ion & Mod­el Man­age­ment, Christo­pher Nathan, has spent a great deal of his ca­reer train­ing and de­vel­op­ing young, pro­fes­sion­al fash­ion mod­els for in­ter­na­tion­al place­ment. And even as he lies par­a­lyzed in a bed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, his thoughts still go out to his “chil­dren,” whom he said may be wor­ried that he has not been in con­tact with them in sev­er­al days.

As a woman in the church, Ak­i­lah Hold­er has con­sis­tent­ly spo­ken out on so­cial is­sues where many Chris­t­ian lead­ers—pre­dom­i­nant­ly male—have re­mained silent. Over the years, she has found her­self, of­ten un­ex­pect­ed­ly, at the fore­front of con­ver­sa­tions that many with­in the church have hes­i­tat­ed to con­front.

Known for his in­no­v­a­tive work, Nevin Roach, of Low­lands, To­ba­go, has of­fi­cial­ly com­plet­ed his Mas­ter’s de­gree in IT Man­age­ment from IU In­ter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences, Ger­many.

Dr An­jani Ganase has spent most of this year on the is­land of To­ba­go—div­ing off its reefs to re­search the state of its corals. Her pre­lim­i­nary find­ings sug­gest trou­bling news for To­ba­go’s coral reefs.

The Bent­ley Pot­ter School of Dance, to­geth­er with the Cas­cade Fes­ti­val Bal­let, pre­sent­ed “The Mag­i­cal World of Oz and the Rhythm With­in” on No­vem­ber 22 and 23 at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.

Japan­ese singers Aaayah (Ayako Hi­raya­ma) and Ann G (An­gel­la Gius­ti­ni) have joined forces on a new crossover sin­gle, Wasabi Wine—an up-tem­po dance track fea­tur­ing a play­ful blend of Japan­ese and Eng­lish lyrics.

Con­tes­tants of the Miss Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Pageant dis­played a beau­ti­ful se­lec­tion of evening gowns at the Ciprai­ni Labour Col­lege, Val­sayn, re­cent­ly.

“I thought about the hard­est pos­si­ble thing I could do. I con­sid­ered climb­ing Mount Kil­i­man­jaro… but I al­ready bought a bike… so I went with Iron­man.”

On Sat­ur­day night, The En­chant­ed Book­shop leapt off the page and on­to the stage at Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do, in a mag­i­cal pro­duc­tion pre­sent­ed by the Na­tive Caribbean Foun­da­tion, found­ed by Mar­lon and Jenif­fer Es­pinoza.

Stu­dents from The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts lit up the stage at Queen’s Hall’s Win­nifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um, un­leash­ing the Rhythm of Cul­ture in a cel­e­bra­tion of Caribbean and di­as­poric her­itage.

The Na­tion­al Panora­ma Sin­gle Pan pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion ran from No­vem­ber 12 to 20, fea­tur­ing 48 bands, in­clud­ing three mil­i­tary en­sem­bles — Fire, Reg­i­ment and Po­lice. Al­so cap­tur­ing wide­spread at­ten­tion was the youngest com­peti­tor in Panora­ma his­to­ry: a five-year-old per­form­ing on the small­est pan ever played at the event. Pan Trin­ba­go has apt­ly dubbed him “The Lit­tle Mozart of Pan.”

If Shinel­ly James could have her way, there would be in­clu­sion in ed­u­ca­tion at schools in T&T—from the pre-school to sec­ondary lev­el.