From the ear­li­est mo­ments of her life, Can­dice Nasha Clarke has been in per­fect rhythm—a nat­ur­al-born dancer. She re­calls that from her pre-teen years, dance lift­ed her morale and self-es­teem. For Clarke, dance has al­ways been more than move­ment—it is con­fi­dence, heal­ing, and hope. Her acad­e­my, the Can­dice Clarke Acad­e­my of Dance (CCAD), ex­ists to give as many girls and women as pos­si­ble that same trans­for­ma­tive op­por­tu­ni­ty.

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”.

When Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) skip­per Nicholas Pooran and his side walked out against the Bar­ba­dos Roy­als in their last pre­lim­i­nary round Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match-up in Bar­ba­dos last night, one of his side’s biggest fans, Adri­an Cud­joe, was watch­ing with a re­newed sense of pride in the team.

First-time cook­book au­thor Kim­ber­ly For­rester has earned in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion with her de­but pub­li­ca­tion, Beets by Kim – 100 Beet­root Recipes, se­cur­ing nom­i­na­tions in two cat­e­gories at the 31st Gour­mand In­ter­na­tion­al World Cook­book Awards 2025. She is the on­ly en­trant from T&T to be nom­i­nat­ed in mul­ti­ple cat­e­gories this year.

For de­sign­er and mod­el Ar­lene Hodge-Mur­ray, The Re­turn of the Di­a­monds was more than a show­case of cre­ativ­i­ty. It was a re­union—and a re­birth—of tal­ent and beau­ty that had been sti­fled dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Car­oli­na, a qui­et com­mu­ni­ty in cen­tral Trinidad, over­flowed with joy and cel­e­bra­tion on Mon­day as parish­ioners re­turned to wor­ship at the Our La­dy of Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion Church for the first time in 15 years.

Steel­pan Month 2025, launched by Pan Trin­ba­go on Ju­ly 19, once again show­cased the heart­beat of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­ture. Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore in­vit­ed the world to join the steel­pan body “in car­ry­ing the rhythm for­ward and cel­e­brate the mu­si­cal in­stru­ment and its lega­cy through­out Au­gust.”

In cel­e­bra­tion of Re­pub­lic Day and all it rep­re­sents—sov­er­eign­ty, cul­tur­al pride, and the ex­tra­or­di­nary po­ten­tial of T&T’s peo­ple—four dis­tin­guished na­tion­als will be recog­nised for their out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to jour­nal­ism, film, ad­vo­ca­cy, and fash­ion.

When Japan launched its first na­tion­al steel or­ches­tra in 1995, it was a cul­tur­al ex­per­i­ment that would grow in­to a last­ing love af­fair with the steel­pan. The Sukiya­ki Steel Or­ches­tra (SSO), based in Fukuno, Toya­ma, was born from a part­ner­ship be­tween T&T’s Rene­gades Steel Or­ches­tra and Japan’s Con­ver­sa­tion Com­pa­ny, in­spired by Rene­gades’ elec­tri­fy­ing con­certs in Toya­ma in 1992 and 1993.

Fresh from the cor­po­rate launch of Trinidad Car­ni­val 2026 at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) has joined forces with the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so Or­gan­i­sa­tion and the Toron­to Con­sulate to stage the Trin­ba­go Toron­to Fes­ti­val, which runs this week­end at Nathan Phillips Square in down­town Toron­to.

For Dr Sih­lé Le­tren, the crown­ing mo­ment of Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go 2025 was a dream re­alised. A doc­tor by pro­fes­sion and now the coun­try’s newest pageant queen, she grew up in Cunu­pia be­fore mov­ing to Di­a­mond Vale, where she spent most of her teenage years.

Per­i­menopause and menopause are nat­ur­al tran­si­tions every woman ex­pe­ri­ences. But be­yond hot flash­es, ir­reg­u­lar pe­ri­ods, and phys­i­cal dis­com­fort lies a re­al­i­ty that is rarely dis­cussed: the pro­found im­pact menopause can have on re­la­tion­ships and ca­reers.