Nes­tled deep with­in Trinidad’s North­ern Range, just a 20-minute dri­ve from the bustling East­ern Main Road, the vil­lage of Lopinot feels like a place where time stands still.

On To­ba­go’s west­ern coast, where the turquoise wa­ters of Buc­coo Bay gen­tly kiss a long stretch of qui­et shore­line, it is easy to un­der­stand why res­i­dents be­lieve their beach ri­vals—and even sur­pass­es—the is­land’s more fa­mous des­ti­na­tions.

A fre­quent med­ical com­plaint dur­ing the Au­gust hol­i­days is im­peti­go. Im­peti­go is an acute su­per­fi­cial in­fec­tion of the skin caused by bac­te­ria. It’s com­mon­ly called “sores” or “sep­tic spots” in T&T.

When Dr Rishad Seecher­an walked in­to the Min­istry of Health af­ter be­ing ap­point­ed Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health fol­low­ing the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, he made a per­son­al de­ci­sion that would ul­ti­mate­ly trans­form not on­ly his ap­pear­ance but al­so his out­look on pub­lic health.

Late­ly it feels like most of the Sa­hara’s dust has mi­grat­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go. On any giv­en day, a glance out the win­dow re­veals a hazy sky — sig­nalling not rain, but an­oth­er lay­er of it that brings a con­stant strug­gle for al­ler­gy suf­fer­ers and a night­mare for clean cars.

On Feb­ru­ary 23, 1925, Kr­ish­na De­onar­ine (who lat­er changed his name to Adri­an Co­la Rien­zi) wrote a let­ter to the ed­i­tor of the Labour Leader, a lo­cal pub­li­ca­tion, in­form­ing the read­er­ship of a mass meet­ing held on Feb­ru­ary 7, at the Ori­en­tal Hall. The pur­pose of the meet­ing was to pass a res­o­lu­tion of protest and to ap­point del­e­gates to con­vey their dis­sat­is­fac­tion to the Gov­er­nor, who failed to ap­point In­di­ans in the nom­i­nat­ed un­of­fi­cial sec­tion of the Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil.

Award-win­ning Mar­cus Bernard was a typ­i­cal school boy who loved both pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools, but was ea­ger to work be­cause he al­ways had an am­bi­tion to grow and try new things. Fol­low­ing grad­u­at­ing in 1972, Bernard wast­ed no time.

Patrick Au­gus­tus Mervyn Man­ning is T&T’s longest-serv­ing mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, and the mag­ni­tude of his tenure and time in pol­i­tics has left an in­deli­ble mark on the na­tion’s po­lit­i­cal land­scape. Ten years af­ter his pass­ing on Ju­ly 2, 2016, his decades of ser­vice as a states­man and leader re­main deeply wo­ven in­to the very fab­ric of this na­tion’s iden­ti­ty.

Each year, around the feast of Our La­dy of Mount Carmel, the Care­nage com­mu­ni­ty gath­ers for the an­nu­al bless­ing of the boats and fish­er­men, a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion that com­bines faith with the area’s fish­ing her­itage.

Bish­op Anstey Trin­i­ty Col­lege East grad­u­ates pulled out all the fash­ion stops for A Night in Dubai, at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain, on June 22. The young men and women showed up in var­i­ous hues of shim­mer and daz­zle, with cam­eras cap­tur­ing their every move as they made their way from the ho­tel lob­by to the ball­room. There, they ex­cit­ed­ly marked their ex­it from the in­sti­tu­tion at which they had spent the last five years, with din­ner, danc­ing, and lots of post­ing – cre­at­ing once-in-a-life­time mem­o­ries with friends and teach­ers that will fol­low them in­to young adult­hood and be­yond.

In our beau­ti­ful twin is­lands, the tran­si­tion in­to the rainy sea­son is nev­er sub­tle. Blue skies can turn in­to tor­ren­tial down­pours and flash floods in a mat­ter of min­utes. Dri­ving in heavy rain dras­ti­cal­ly changes the dy­nam­ics of your ve­hi­cle, re­duc­ing your vis­i­bil­i­ty and cut­ting your tyre trac­tion in half. Prepar­ing your ve­hi­cle for the wet sea­son is not just about con­ve­nience; it is a crit­i­cal safe­ty re­quire­ment for you and your fam­i­ly.

She had her life all mapped out, ex­pect­ing her planned ca­reer to be re­alised at age 25. But un­ex­pect­ed cir­cum­stances forced An­drea Bernard to take the scenic route to be­ing called to the Bar—a route that led her to teach in Spain and Cam­bo­dia be­fore she re­turned home to be­gin her ca­reer as an at­tor­ney.