From church pews to cen­tre stage, Su­san­na Sur­jan is emerg­ing as one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most com­pelling new voic­es, her mu­sic shaped by faith, fam­i­ly and an un­shake­able de­sire to up­lift oth­ers. A singer, per­former, ed­u­ca­tor and ra­dio host, Sur­jan’s jour­ney is dri­ven not by fame but by pur­pose—and it is that sin­cer­i­ty which con­tin­ues to res­onate with grow­ing au­di­ences at home and abroad. For Sur­jan, mu­sic has nev­er been mere­ly a per­for­mance.

Three-time Chut­ney So­ca Monarch, re­cent­ly ap­point­ed NCC Com­mis­sion­er, and vo­cal­ist with the A Team Band, Im­ran “GI” Per­sad has added an­oth­er ac­co­lade to his port­fo­lio: he has been of­fi­cial­ly signed as a Brand Am­bas­sador by The House of An­gos­tu­ra.

Bird­song’s an­nu­al Christ­mas on Cam­pus con­cert is a favourite of those in­ter­est­ed in a show that of­fers a high-qual­i­ty mu­si­cal ex­pe­ri­ence rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the sea­son. This year up­held such ex­pec­ta­tions.

Rum Brunch 2025 trans­formed the Gar­den Sanc­tu­ary in Ma­coya in­to a whim­si­cal es­cape, de­liv­er­ing a well-at­tend­ed lifestyle ex­pe­ri­ence in­spired by the fan­tas­ti­cal world of Al­ice in Won­der­land.

In 2025, two mem­bers of the Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go qui­et­ly set an ex­tra­or­di­nary ex­am­ple of com­mit­ment to her­itage ed­u­ca­tion. Stel­la Sandy, a re­tiree, and Au­dra Mitchell, a work­ing pro­fes­sion­al, each at­tend­ed 16 Na­tion­al Trust tours over the course of the year—demon­strat­ing how ac­ces­si­ble, well-cu­rat­ed her­itage ex­pe­ri­ences can in­spire sus­tained pub­lic en­gage­ment.

The year 2025 marks the 45th an­niver­sary of Los Par­ran­deros de UWI —a mile­stone that is re­mark­able by any stan­dard, but par­tic­u­lar­ly in the mu­sic world, where groups and artistes of­ten fade away with alarm­ing speed.

It took a De­cem­ber 9 trip to the epi­cen­tre of the Oc­to­ber 28 as­sault by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa on Ja­maica to meet one of the is­land’s newest lead­ing mu­si­cal voic­es and ac­tivists for hope and re­ju­ve­na­tion.

The sounds of mu­sic, laugh­ter, and fes­tive cheer filled the streets of Fe­lic­i­ty, Ch­agua­nas, re­cent­ly when Mu­si­cal Kiss – Fam­i­ly and Friends host­ed its an­nu­al Christ­mas con­cert and movie night, bring­ing chil­dren, fam­i­lies, and res­i­dents to­geth­er for an evening of whole­some com­mu­ni­ty cel­e­bra­tion.

An evening of fes­tive mag­ic un­fold­ed on De­cem­ber 9, as stu­dents of Cedar Grove Pri­vate School lit up the stage with their Christ­mas con­cert, “A Christ­mas To Re­mem­ber,” at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA), San Fer­nan­do.

In keep­ing with an­nu­al tra­di­tion, thou­sands braved the steep, wind­ing roads of Paramin, Trinidad, for the 16th edi­tion of Parang on D Hills.

Stu­dents of Bish­op Anstey Trin­i­ty Col­lege East re­cent­ly had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to mon­e­tise their cre­ativ­i­ty while giv­ing back to their school com­mu­ni­ty at the in­sti­tu­tion’s an­nu­al Christ­mas Pop-Up Mar­ket.

Two Sun­days ago, ex­act­ly one week fol­low­ing the open­ing of the new Mega­s­tore in San Juan Courts teamed up with TCL—one of its no­table elec­tron­ics part­ners—to host the TCL View­ing Event. The event was de­signed to show­case TCL’s ad­vanced quan­tum dot mi­ni LED (QD mi­ni LED) tech­nol­o­gy fea­tured in the world’s largest tele­vi­sion—the 115” Mi­ni LED TV, as well as the TCL Art TV.