Trinidad and To­ba­go–born aca­d­e­m­ic Dr Michael Khan played an in­te­gral role in “a per­fect start to the Fall Con­vo­ca­tion at Saint Mary’s Uni­ver­si­ty,” where he was of­fi­cial­ly in­stalled as the in­sti­tu­tion’s 35th Pres­i­dent and Vice-Chan­cel­lor. The uni­ver­si­ty, lo­cat­ed in Hal­i­fax’s South End in No­va Sco­tia, Cana­da, ap­point­ed Dr Khan on Ju­ly 1. He was for­mal­ly sworn in and took his oath of of­fice on No­vem­ber 13, dur­ing a Con­vo­ca­tion Cer­e­mo­ny.

Grow­ing up in a small, peace­ful vil­lage in cen­tral Trinidad, Can­dice Dookree nev­er imag­ined that her love for the out­doors and nat­ur­al cu­rios­i­ty would one day lead her in­to the world of geospa­tial sci­ence. What be­gan as a child­hood shaped by com­mu­ni­ty and crick­et grad­u­al­ly evolved in­to a deep in­ter­est in how places grow, change, and con­nect. To­day, that jour­ney has po­si­tioned her at the fore­front of re­search that could trans­form how Trinidad and To­ba­go plans its ur­ban fu­ture.

As a woman in the church, Ak­i­lah Hold­er has con­sis­tent­ly spo­ken out on so­cial is­sues where many Chris­t­ian lead­ers—pre­dom­i­nant­ly male—have re­mained silent. Over the years, she has found her­self, of­ten un­ex­pect­ed­ly, at the fore­front of con­ver­sa­tions that many with­in the church have hes­i­tat­ed to con­front.

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.

The Bent­ley Pot­ter School of Dance, to­geth­er with the Cas­cade Fes­ti­val Bal­let, pre­sent­ed “The Mag­i­cal World of Oz and the Rhythm With­in” on No­vem­ber 22 and 23 at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.

Con­tes­tants of the Miss Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Pageant dis­played a beau­ti­ful se­lec­tion of evening gowns at the Ciprai­ni Labour Col­lege, Val­sayn, re­cent­ly.

“I thought about the hard­est pos­si­ble thing I could do. I con­sid­ered climb­ing Mount Kil­i­man­jaro… but I al­ready bought a bike… so I went with Iron­man.”

On Sat­ur­day night, The En­chant­ed Book­shop leapt off the page and on­to the stage at Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do, in a mag­i­cal pro­duc­tion pre­sent­ed by the Na­tive Caribbean Foun­da­tion, found­ed by Mar­lon and Jenif­fer Es­pinoza.

Stu­dents from The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts lit up the stage at Queen’s Hall’s Win­nifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um, un­leash­ing the Rhythm of Cul­ture in a cel­e­bra­tion of Caribbean and di­as­poric her­itage.

The Na­tion­al Panora­ma Sin­gle Pan pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion ran from No­vem­ber 12 to 20, fea­tur­ing 48 bands, in­clud­ing three mil­i­tary en­sem­bles — Fire, Reg­i­ment and Po­lice. Al­so cap­tur­ing wide­spread at­ten­tion was the youngest com­peti­tor in Panora­ma his­to­ry: a five-year-old per­form­ing on the small­est pan ever played at the event. Pan Trin­ba­go has apt­ly dubbed him “The Lit­tle Mozart of Pan.”

If Shinel­ly James could have her way, there would be in­clu­sion in ed­u­ca­tion at schools in T&T—from the pre-school to sec­ondary lev­el.

No­body tru­ly ex­pect­ed the No­vem­ber 23 “Headley Show” to run for the ap­point­ed two hours at the UWI School in St Au­gus­tine as ad­ver­tised.