Colour, cre­ativ­i­ty and the spir­it of mas­quer­ade will take cen­tre stage when Ohana Car­ni­val Band brings its vi­brant pre­sen­ta­tion to the streets of San Fer­nan­do for Car­ni­val 2027.

When a tow­er­ing moko jumbie slow­ly danced down the aisle at Crown Point Beach Ho­tel in To­ba­go, Ja­maican en­tre­pre­neur Michael Robin­son ex­pe­ri­enced some­thing he had not an­tic­i­pat­ed on his wed­ding day.

Rewind to 1941. Em­rold An­tho­ny Phillip was born in Grena­da. He moved to Trinidad as a youth and spent decades doc­u­ment­ing the na­tion’s iden­ti­ty through ca­lyp­so un­der the so­bri­quet Broth­er Valenti­no, be­gin­ning his pro­fes­sion­al ca­reer in 1966. With his Rasta­far­i­an locks and con­fi­dent swag­ger, he re­mained un­apolo­get­i­cal­ly him­self and used his plat­form to cham­pi­on peo­ple of African de­scent, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing the tur­bu­lent 1970 Black Pow­er move­ment, speak­ing truth to pow­er and giv­ing voice to or­di­nary peo­ple.

Kalicha­ran Mas has launched its Car­ni­val 2027 pre­sen­ta­tion with a street-par­ty-themed Rev­el.

When we men­tion spring rolls, we of­ten think of tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese cui­sine: a savoury roll filled with cab­bage and oth­er veg­eta­bles, wrapped in thin, cylin­dri­cal pas­try.

Sushi is be­com­ing an in­creas­ing­ly fa­mil­iar sight on menus across T&T, but not every­one is ready to take the plunge. It is a hes­i­ta­tion that chef and Sushi Plug Ltd co-founder Jan­nix Joseph knows all too well.

What’s bet­ter than cook­ing for the peo­ple you love? If you ask 20-year-old Ad­dae Pa­ponette, he’d tell you that it is prepar­ing meals side by side with his dad, Abu. Now re­sid­ing in Lon­don, the duo, who go by the on­line name ‘Ad­daeEats’, are quick­ly be­com­ing so­cial me­dia favourites, whip­ping up lo­cal recipes for an in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ence.

His­toric heat waves are putting French dairy cows that nor­mal­ly graze out­doors in sum­mer un­der heat-re­lat­ed stress.

Though the Na­tion­al Trust of T&T (NT) had its Sep­tem­ber 26 out­door ac­tiv­i­ty head­lined sim­ply as an “Oropouche La­goon Tour”, its itin­er­ary en­sured that there was more than a fair share of food, thrills and triv­ia.

A po­ten­tial vis­i­tor sees im­ages of Paramin: sprawl­ing hills, fields of herbs, views from La Vigie look­out and a ta­ble laid out for lunch. She adds it to her buck­et list.

When Ali host­ed her first sip-and-paint event in 2022, the cou­ple be­gan con­sid­er­ing how they could com­bine their two in­ter­ests.

Af­ter two years of com­ing sec­ond, the South Diego Mar­tin Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre has claimed the top spot, beat­ing 33 oth­er cen­tres na­tion­wide to take the Best Kept Com­mu­ni­ty/Meet­ing Place ti­tle in the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment’s com­pe­ti­tion. As­ses­sors vis­it­ed in ear­ly Ju­ly, and the win­ners were an­nounced on Ju­ly 30.