It took a fa­ther’s love and a Trinida­di­an sur­geon’s steady hands to come to­geth­er in a spe­cial mo­ment that not on­ly saved a life, but al­so made med­ical his­to­ry in the Caribbean.

The sto­ry of Am­i­na Blake-Fore­man be­gins on the south­ern tip of Trinidad, in Fyz­abad, where en­tre­pre­neur­ial sparks were al­ready fly­ing by the time she turned sev­en. Back then, she was sell­ing spices from Grena­da—an ear­ly sign of a girl who would grow in­to a woman de­ter­mined to do more than just make a liv­ing. She was on a path to cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ty.

Now, I’m not say­ing rain can’t be dan­ger­ous—it can be. But so is cross­ing the high­way, and peo­ple still do that every day. Hik­ing in the rain just means you have to be smart. That’s all. Hike Club—that’s our lit­tle crew of na­ture-lov­ing fel­las and gyals—knows when and where to go, wet or dry. Over the years, we’ve learned which trails are best for sun, and which ones come alive when the rain falls.

Yes­ter­day marked the 10th an­niver­sary of World Man­grove Day–a UN­ESCO-adopt­ed day aim­ing to raise aware­ness about the im­por­tance of man­grove ecosys­tems and pro­mote their sus­tain­able man­age­ment, con­ser­va­tion, and use.

For more than three decades, Na­tal­ie Rogers-Crop­per has em­bod­ied a style, a dis­ci­pline, and a lega­cy. Ac­tor, ed­u­ca­tor, di­rec­tor and mul­ti­ple-award-win­ning dancer, she has spent her life mov­ing—across coun­tries, across gen­er­a­tions, and across stages — with the Fa­gan tech­nique puls­ing through every step.

Cathi Hanauer was mar­ried to a man she loved, rais­ing a daugh­ter she adored, and sus­tain­ing a writ­ing life earned word by word, yet be­neath the sur­face of that care­ful­ly stitched do­mes­tic­i­ty some­thing soured—an un­ease that nev­er ex­plod­ed yet gath­ered silent­ly, like steam be­hind a closed door, ris­ing from a thou­sand small con­ces­sions, com­pro­mis­es, and swal­lowed sen­tences.

At just 21 years old, Is­abelle Laquis is al­ready leav­ing a lega­cy of im­pact across Trinidad and To­ba­go. Now go­ing in­to her fourth year at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mi­a­mi, Laquis is the co-founder of Let’s Give Back, a non­prof­it born at the height of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2020.

Jan­ice Lear­mond-Criqui has nev­er been one to fol­low a tra­di­tion­al script. A cer­ti­fied pro­fes­sion­al life coach, she is set to re­lease her book en­ti­tled He Said the Right Things but Did He Mean Them–A Woman’s Guide to Un­der­stand­ing the Game, Guard­ing Her Heart and Grow­ing Her Worth. She has de­vot­ed many years to shap­ing, sup­port­ing, and in­spir­ing peo­ple. How­ev­er, her sto­ry has tak­en var­i­ous un­prece­dent­ed twists and turns, and her abil­i­ty to sur­mount chal­lenges with grace and poise has been an in­spi­ra­tion in and of it­self.

When Bran­don Beck­with set out to cre­ate the most cul­tur­al­ly di­verse al­bum ever made, he didn’t ex­pect to stum­ble up­on a cel­e­bra­tion that would re­shape his world­view: Eman­ci­pa­tion Day.

Mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­er Pas­tor Luke Quam­i­na be­lieves the up­com­ing CeCe Winans: More Than This Trinidad con­cert is ar­riv­ing at ex­act­ly the right mo­ment for a na­tion in need of hope.

On Ju­ly 13, fash­ion de­sign­er Daron­té Guade­loupe un­veiled his lat­est mas­ter­piece, Feel­ings: The Col­lec­tion, dur­ing an in­ti­mate run­way show that cap­ti­vat­ed a hand­picked au­di­ence of fash­ion con­nois­seurs. The night was one of raw emo­tion, bold artistry, and un­for­get­table style—a cel­e­bra­tion not just of fash­ion, but of mem­o­ry, mean­ing, and the en­dur­ing pow­er of self-ex­pres­sion.

“Trinidad and To­ba­go, get ready to show your love for the great­est ca­lyp­son­ian to ever walk this earth—the Mighty Spar­row, the Ca­lyp­so King of the World,” de­clares Spek­taku­la Pro­mo­tions, pro­duc­ers of the up­com­ing trib­ute con­certs Thank You Spar­row.