Some of the na­tion’s top ju­nior steel­bands will con­verge on the grounds of San Juan North Sec­ondary School on Sep­tem­ber 27 for a Youth Steel­pan Jam­boree de­scribed by the school’s Mu­sic De­part­ment as “a plat­form for emerg­ing steel­pan mu­si­cians.”

Pa­trons of WAND’s Den­im & Di­a­monds fundrais­er held at VICE night­club on Sep­tem­ber 13 were treat­ed to an un­for­get­table evening filled with non-stop en­ter­tain­ment, en­er­gy, and ex­cite­ment.

Even on a week­end vis­it, To­ba­go re­wards the trav­eller who ris­es ear­ly and em­braces the sea. In a sin­gle day, three beach­es—Buc­coo, Tur­tle Beach and Stone Haven—trace a jour­ney through vil­lage life, nat­ur­al won­der and qui­et re­lax­ation.

Last week­end, the stage at Queen’s Hall be­came a can­vas for some of the most press­ing strug­gles fac­ing young peo­ple to­day.

On Au­gust 27, the in­ti­mate stage at Kafe Blue pulsed with the adage “Mu­sic is Love,” as ten dis­tin­guished mu­si­cians gath­ered for Pan by Storm, a stir­ring trib­ute to the late Ken “Pro­fes­sor” Philmore. The evening be­came both a cel­e­bra­tion of his mu­sic and a re­minder of his tow­er­ing lega­cy in the steel­pan world.

Chile’s cel­e­brat­ed An­tuma­pu Folk­loric Bal­let will make its Caribbean de­but lat­er this month with a per­for­mance at Queen’s Hall, Port of Spain, on Sep­tem­ber 30 at 6.30 pm.

In a warm ges­ture, Mex­i­can Am­bas­sador Hugo Morales has ex­tend­ed an open in­vi­ta­tion to na­tion­als of T&T to vis­it Mex­i­co for the 2026 FI­FA World Cup.

Caribbean cin­e­ma that wres­tles with mem­o­ry,re­sis­tance, self­hood, and eco­log­i­cal stew­ard­ship will head­line the 2025 Trinidad+To­ba­go Film Fes­ti­val (TTFF).

Grow­ing up in a close-knit Tri­ni fam­i­ly, food was al­ways a cen­ter­ing life force for Abi­gail Bod­ing­ton. One of many chil­dren, Bod­ing­ton re­mem­bers an up­bring­ing “full of en­er­gy, love and lots of home-cooked meals”.

Stacey-Ann Noel is rewrit­ing what re­silience looks like. Di­ag­nosed with lu­pus at just 27, she is de­ter­mined not to let the chron­ic ill­ness de­fine her. She finds ways to bal­ance her flare-ups and re­main pos­i­tive, heal­ing with med­i­ta­tion and mu­sic, and draw­ing strength from her bond with her pets and her sis­ters.

In the space of just 40 days, what be­gan as a chance con­ver­sa­tion at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah turned in­to a sto­ry that would change lives: two teenage girls, large­ly over­looked on the lo­cal ath­let­ics cir­cuit, sud­den­ly pack­ing their bags for Texas on full ath­let­ic schol­ar­ships.

Pa­tri­cia Hale met VS Naipaul at Ox­ford in 1952, both ex­iles in dif­fer­ent ways: she from a mod­est Birm­ing­ham home, he from the heat and dis­lo­ca­tion of Trinidad. She was 19, the first in her fam­i­ly to reach uni­ver­si­ty, and the on­ly pupil from her state school to win a place at Ox­ford. He was shy, un­cer­tain, and hun­gry for recog­ni­tion. She stead­ied him with the con­fi­dence of her be­lief in him, in his work as a writer.