When your life changes in an in­stant, there’s no warn­ing—just a mo­ment that splits time in­to be­fore and af­ter. For me, NICOLE DRAY­TON, it hap­pened in a bath­room on a qui­et Sun­day morn­ing. This is my jour­ney through breast can­cer, which I am shar­ing in parts: raw, un­fil­tered, and root­ed in faith. It’s not just a sto­ry about di­ag­no­sis—it’s about strength, fear, iso­la­tion, small mir­a­cles, and the pow­er of com­mu­ni­ty.

From be­ing born and raised in Trinidad and To­ba­go to mak­ing waves in the buzzing bor­ough of Brook­lyn, La­toya Lovell has stirred her dreams in­to a pot of Caribbean flavours and poured them straight in­to the heart of New York.

Michael Phillips is tru­ly re­defin­ing what it means to be a mul­ti-hy­phen­ate cre­ative force. With Tai­lor-Made For Me, he’s not just dip­ping a toe in­to mu­sic—he’s div­ing in with a bold fu­sion of Caribbean and coun­try sounds that’s turn­ing heads across T&T.

In stay­ing true to their mis­sion of giv­ing fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to fam­i­lies for med­ical and ed­u­ca­tion­al needs, The Said­wan Foun­da­tion has do­nat­ed $60,000 to­wards ed­u­ca­tion­al needs, and $60,000 in 2025 to the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T.

Baby­tai Kam­ble, from In­dia’s low­est caste, wrote a sear­ing mem­oir about what it means to be poor, fe­male, and shunned—and forced the world to look.

A Colom­bian film crew vis­it­ed T&T from June 16 to 24 as part of their Afro­di­as­po­ra Cui­sine In­ves­ti­ga­tion Project to in­ves­ti­gate and ex­plore con­nec­tions across the African di­as­po­ra through food.

Six­es So­cial Crick­et marked its one-year an­niver­sary in T&T with an elec­tri­fy­ing cel­e­bra­tion at One Wood­brook Place on June 18. The event was a live­ly show­case of every­thing that makes Six­es the go-to venue for sport, so­cial­is­ing, and stand­out ex­pe­ri­ences.

Dressed as princes and princess­es, the pupils of the Class of 2025 at Cedar Grove Pri­vate Pri­ma­ry School cel­e­brate their grad­u­a­tion with a din­ner and dance at The Are­na in San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.

The beau­ty of Odis­si, the old­est sur­viv­ing clas­si­cal dance of In­dia, was on full dis­play in Arpanam, a pro­duc­tion by San­dra Sookdeo’s Kala Mandir at the Na­pari­ma Bowl, San Fer­nan­do.

Res­i­dents decked out in their Sun­day best en­joy­ing a stroll along the main street in front of what could eas­i­ly be the main com­mu­ni­ty hall ma­jes­ti­cal­ly stand­ing out from the oth­er build­ings - it is a sig­na­ture scene of lo­cal art, but one with James “Jim” Arm­strong’s own spe­cial in­ter­pre­ta­tion, which he has termed as “in­dige­nous im­pres­sion­ism.”

YU­MA Vibe set the tem­per­a­ture for an­oth­er Car­ni­val sea­son with their pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2026 theme Luxe: A Lav­ish Es­cape, at the Port-of-Spain In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front on Sat­ur­day evening.

World-renowned tabla mae­stro Nishikant Bar­o­dekar de­liv­ered a pow­er­ful and emo­tion­al­ly charged per­for­mance on June 20 at the Lax­mi Narayan Tem­ple in Freeport, cap­ti­vat­ing a packed au­di­ence with his rhyth­mic bril­liance and deep mas­tery of clas­si­cal In­di­an per­cus­sion.