These im­ages cap­ture the strength, love, and every­day hero­ism of fa­thers across Trinidad and To­ba­go. As we cel­e­brate Fa­ther’s Day, we take a look at the men who shape our fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties—one day at a time, one mem­o­ry at a time.

When pas­sion­ate writer and po­et Dilip Ja­goo cel­e­brat­ed his fa­ther Bas­ant’s 95th birth­day at home on Feb­ru­ary 11, sur­round­ed by loved ones, the mo­ment struck a deep­er chord.

From his of­fice in Port-of-Spain, TSTT Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Kent West­ern speaks with the calm clar­i­ty of some­one deeply an­chored in pur­pose.

On a Sat­ur­day evening, a group of boys fol­lows Al­win Hunte down Nel­son Street to­ward the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion. These young men, res­i­dents of the Cre­do Home for Boys—who are with­out par­ents, aban­doned, or placed un­der the care of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty—are head­ed to evening Mass. They set­tle qui­et­ly in the front pews, their eyes fixed on the al­tar, await­ing the start of the ser­vice.

Bar­ry Padarath, the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cou­va South, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, is first and fore­most a de­vot­ed fa­ther.

Reach­ing ten years in any pro­fes­sion is no small feat, es­pe­cial­ly in the ever-evolv­ing world of en­ter­tain­ment.

For a man who touched the pin­na­cle of his pro­fes­sion­al ca­reer, Sha­ka His­lop has found a dif­fer­ent sat­is­fac­tion in fa­ther­hood. The for­mer T&T goal­keep­er, who had a fa­bled open­ing game at the 2006 FI­FA World Cup, is fa­ther to five chil­dren–four girls and a boy.

When Fitzher­bert Glen Niles’ son, Tyrese, was born, and it was dis­cov­ered he had Down syn­drome, he was filled with un­cer­tain­ty and a lot of emo­tions.

As we say in T&T, “it does not fall far from the tree”. True to form so it is with 17-year-old Jaden Teague-Nuñez, son of T&T’s not­ed in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned pan­nist Liam Teague and Lore­na Nuñez, for­mer prin­ci­pal vi­o­list of the Pana­ma Na­tion­al Sym­pho­ny Or­ches­tra.

Ten beau­ti­ful young women from across T&T were re­cent­ly sashed as del­e­gates of the Miss Teen Trinidad & To­ba­go 2025 com­pe­ti­tion.

The 15-time Gram­my award-win­ning gospel-record­ing artiste is sched­uled to per­form in T&T and Ja­maica, as part of her More Than This world tour which kicked off in Can­ton, Ohio, on Feb­ru­ary 2.

Ali­cia Knights is a T&T-born vo­cal­ist, writer and per­former with roots in po­et­ry, act­ing and live mu­sic.