The wait is over—it’s time to bowl! Pres­tige Lanes of­fi­cial­ly opened its doors at the C3 Cen­tre last Fri­day, bring­ing a world-class bowl­ing ex­pe­ri­ence to south Trinidad.

On Au­gust 20, Vic­to­ria Am­ri­ta Ma­haraj will per­form at the Kali Ya­tra Fes­ti­val 2025. It will be an­oth­er ma­jor step in her mu­si­cal jour­ney, one that has been rich in cul­tur­al his­to­ry and en­dur­ing lega­cy. The 25 year old is quick­ly ris­ing as one of the most promi­nent In­do-Trinida­di­an mu­si­cians in the coun­try. From vo­cals to the vi­o­lin, Ma­haraj has been per­form­ing at mi­nor and ma­jor events across the na­tion.

There were sad and som­bre mo­ments, but the fu­ner­al ser­vice for Guyana-born Caribbean jour­nal­ist Rick­ey Singh in Bar­ba­dos on Ju­ly 16 was any­thing but dark and colour­less.

Long be­fore she be­came one of Trinidad’s well-known fash­ion fig­ures, Lyn­da Os­borne was a dis­ap­point­ed teenag­er with a pair of scis­sors, a vi­sion—and a cre­ation of her own.

Dr Kam­la Dhyani’s jour­ney is a pow­er­ful blend of pur­pose, pas­sion and per­se­ver­ance. Orig­i­nal­ly hail­ing from In­dia, Dr Dhyani’s work has tran­scend­ed bound­aries in the de­vel­op­ment and en­rich­ment of the per­form­ing arts both in T&T and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Spar­row Take Over is more than a book—it’s a cel­e­bra­tion of a ge­nius still alive among us. Re­leased in ho­n­our of Slinger Fran­cis­co, The Mighty Spar­row, who turned 90 on Ju­ly 9, this strik­ing col­lec­tion of es­says and pho­tographs edit­ed by Don­ny Ben­ny pays trib­ute to the liv­ing leg­end with the rev­er­ence and joy he de­serves. 

Nes­tled in the vil­lage of Mt Pleas­ant, To­ba­go, St Patrick’s An­gli­can Church stands as a bea­con of re­silience and faith. Con­se­crat­ed in 1843, it holds the dis­tinc­tion of be­ing the old­est church build­ing on the is­land. Built with fire bricks made from ship bal­last and car­ried by en­slaved Africans from Mt Irvine Bay, the church’s very foun­da­tion tells a sto­ry of sac­ri­fice and en­durance.

French Am­bas­sador Di­di­er Chabert is call­ing for the teach­ing of the French lan­guage in schools to be main­tained and strength­ened.

In cof­fee tins, in old syrup buck­ets, in con­crete yards where noth­ing is meant to thrive. They grow or­chids and shame bush, lime trees and rose­mary. Their gar­dens don’t fol­low sym­me­try. They fol­low in­stinct, mem­o­ry, and long­ing. You’ll find aloe and hi­bis­cus in the same pot. Basil, chadon beni, cro­tons. They don’t call it ther­a­py. They say they’re “putting their hand in some­thing”. It keeps them root­ed. It keeps them sane.

The Em­bassy of the Re­pub­lic of Türkiye in Port-of-Spain host­ed the “Turk­ish Culi­nary Jour­ney”, a vi­brant cel­e­bra­tion of Türkiye’s rich and di­verse culi­nary her­itage. The event took place on June 25 at the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce in West­moor­ings.

Large Band of the Year, The Lost TRIBE, has un­veiled a new Free Roam­ing Sec­tion fea­tur­ing sailor mas as part of its 2026 pre­sen­ta­tion, Is­land Cir­cus.

A wave of vi­brant colours, rhyth­mic drum­ming, and joy­ous chant­i­ng swept through the streets of Port-of-Spain last Fri­day as the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ci­ety for Kr­ish­na Con­scious­ness, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Sri Sri Rad­ha Gopinatha Mandir, pre­sent­ed the an­nu­al Ratha Ya­tra—al­so known as the Fes­ti­val of Char­i­ots.