Vis­its to mu­se­ums are an in­evitable part of the ex­pe­ri­ence of the trav­eller with an en­quir­ing mind. To sleep in a mu­se­um sounds a bit much, but the Casa Dos Frades, the for­mer Fran­cis­can Fri­ary, was con­vert­ed in­to a ho­tel with such taste and imag­i­na­tion that no trav­eller in his or her right mind could pos­si­bly have been dis­en­chant­ed with it.

Mon­day morn­ing ar­rives, and this time you are de­ter­mined to get it right. Your work­outs are planned, health­i­er meals are ready, and you promise your­self that noth­ing will knock you off track.

It has been his lan­guage, his pas­sion and, per­haps most im­por­tant­ly, his way of ex­press­ing his love for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For Trinidad and To­ba­go, Sep­tem­ber 24 is more than a pub­lic hol­i­day. It is a day of re­flec­tion, cel­e­bra­tion and na­tion­al pride, mark­ing the coun­try’s jour­ney from British colo­nial rule to be­com­ing a Re­pub­lic.

Chil­dren of Flow em­ploy­ees got to ex­pe­ri­ence their par­ents’ work­place in a whole new way when Flow host­ed its sec­ond Flow Kids Fun Camp at its Trinci­ty head of­fice on Au­gust 21.

“Lis­ten! A farmer went out to sow: And as he sowed, some seed fell by the way­side, and the birds came and de­voured it” (Mark 4:3-4).

Sarah Manoo, of Rangi­la Dance Com­pa­ny, was crowned Miss La Reine Rive af­ter win­ning the Best Gown cat­e­go­ry at the Prime Min­is­ter’s Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion gown pre­sen­ta­tion last Sun­day.

Vini­ta Manoo is step­ping in­to the spot­light as Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go 2026, bring­ing a back­ground in in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and cross-cul­tur­al ex­pe­ri­ence to the na­tion­al ti­tle.

Five-time Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Large Band of the Year, The Lost Tribe, made its de­but at New York Fash­ion Week (NYFW) this month, bring­ing el­e­ments of its 2026 pre­sen­ta­tion, Is­land Cir­cus, to au­di­ences in Man­hat­tan and Brook­lyn.

From pick­ing up the steel­pan at five to lead­ing his school to a na­tion­al Panora­ma fi­nal as a first-time arranger, Amari Dou­glas is steadi­ly carv­ing out his place among To­ba­go’s emerg­ing young mu­si­cians. The 18-year-old has been named the 2026 re­cip­i­ent of the Nevin Roach Award for Ex­cel­lence in Steel­pan, be­com­ing the fifth Bish­op’s High School, To­ba­go, grad­u­ate to re­ceive the ho­n­our.

From a young boy grow­ing up in the coun­try­side of Moru­ga to the top of the Caribbean comedic world, if you ask Ger­vail Lemo if he ever imag­ined any of this, he will tell you he did—every sin­gle bit of it.

Lo­cal video­g­ra­ph­er and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Keagon Smith has helped show­case T&T’s cul­ture and make scores of peo­ple laugh over the past few years. While he may be best known as the cam­era­man and video ed­i­tor for co­me­di­an Ger­vail “Jr Lee” Lemo, he’s that and so much more.