A school­teacher and a sec­ondary stu­dent were cel­e­brat­ed by CIBC Caribbean for their care, kind­ness, and com­mu­ni­ty spir­it as the first and sec­ond-place win­ners of the T&T leg of the Un­sung He­roes pro­gramme.

Dozens of peo­ple flocked to Mille Fleurs re­cent­ly for the Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­nu­al Ponche de Creme, Parang and Pan—a beloved cel­e­bra­tion of her­itage, cul­ture and Christ­mas spir­it at the his­toric house over­look­ing the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

Har­ris Prom­e­nade re­ceived a long-await­ed facelift on No­vem­ber 18. The space was trans­formed in­to a strik­ing open-air cul­tur­al show­case dur­ing San Fer­nan­do City Month (No­vem­ber 1–30) cel­e­bra­tions.

It’s been a busy sea­son of road runs and walks: 1K, 5K, 6K, 10K, half-marathons, and marathons in a few cas­es. The pop­u­lar­i­ty of these events has sur­prised me. We are com­ing up to one year of Fit­ness Week­ly, which start­ed at the be­gin­ning of 2025, to cap­ture the post-Christ­mas/New Year mood to get fit and work off the fes­tive fat.

On the oc­ca­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions’ In­ter­na­tion­al Day for the Elim­i­na­tion of Vi­o­lence Against Women and Girls, Trinre In­sur­ance stood unit­ed with the rest of the world in con­demn­ing all forms of vi­o­lence against women and girls.

Car­nat­ic mu­sic is one of the old­est clas­si­cal mu­sic sys­tems in the world, with roots in South In­dia.

Caribbean food—once pi­geon­holed, of­ten mis­un­der­stood, but al­ways loved—is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a re­nais­sance. Across the world’s most com­pet­i­tive food cities, the flavours of the re­gion are step­ping in­to long-over­due recog­ni­tion, buoyed by chefs, cre­ators, and cul­tur­al keep­ers who are re­defin­ing what Caribbean gas­tron­o­my means to­day. At the heart of this move­ment is Nneka Nurse: culi­nary strate­gist, cul­tur­al cu­ra­tor, and the founder of Best Dressed Plate (BDP)—the plat­form now con­sid­ered the glob­al au­thor­i­ty on Caribbean cui­sine.

Dr Ca­lene Rose­man and Dr Jes­si­ca Adams Skin­ner have shared a friend­ship that spanned over four decades, hav­ing grown up to­geth­er in Laven­tille, then leav­ing T&T for Amer­i­ca – Rose­man, with the sole pur­pose of see­ing Janet Jack­son.

Dy­nam­ic young tal­ent and ris­ing star Yung Bred­da (Akhen­aton Lewis) is shak­ing up the mu­sic scene once again with the re­lease of a pow­er­ful new so­ca track ti­tled Coul­da, just in time for Christ­mas and the fast-ap­proach­ing Car­ni­val sea­son.

“A south girl at heart,” Can­dice Ram­sub­ag Sinanan grew up in south Trinidad, heir to the gift of bak­ing as the daugh­ter and grand­daugh­ter of gen­er­a­tions of gift­ed home bak­ers.

Dr An­jani Ganase has spent most of this year on the is­land of To­ba­go—div­ing off its reefs to re­search the state of its corals. Her pre­lim­i­nary find­ings sug­gest trou­bling news for To­ba­go’s coral reefs.

In just 14 months, Frosty Cups Events Artistry has gone from a bold idea to one of Trinidad’s most talked-about pre­mi­um slushie ex­pe­ri­ences, and at the helm is There­sa Noel, the vi­sion­ary founder who is re­defin­ing cre­ative event re­fresh­ment.