A pow­er­ful new ad­di­tion to T&T’s cul­tur­al and spir­i­tu­al cal­en­dar has been launched—Di­vine Har­monies, a na­tion­al Gospel Choir com­pe­ti­tion, is set to de­but on De­cem­ber 6 at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, start­ing at 5 pm.

Pana­ma’s Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs, Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez, has reaf­firmed his coun­try’s com­mit­ment to build­ing a more in­te­grat­ed, re­silient, and fu­ture-ready Caribbean. Speak­ing at the 31st an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean States (ACS), held at the Pana­man­ian Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain on Ju­ly 29, Min­is­ter Vásquez out­lined a vi­sion of sol­i­dar­i­ty, sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and co­op­er­a­tion.

John­ny Black­man is a T&T-born so­ca record­ing artiste who hails from a large fam­i­ly of 14 chil­dren. He grew up liv­ing mod­est­ly in the town of Pi­paro, and is proud to be the son of the late award-win­ning mu­si­cian Ras Shorty I (Garfield Black­man).

The vi­brant rhythms of tra­di­tion echoed through the streets of San­ta Cruz on Ju­ly 26, as the Omo Oduduwa In­sti­tute, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Black In­di­an Cul­ture and Mas­quer­ade and the Oje Egun­gun So­ci­ety, pre­sent­ed the Egun­gun Fes­ti­val 2025.

At­tor­ney Is­rael Khan, SC, was ho­n­oured by the Aneal Ra­jah Wind­ball Crick­et League dur­ing a gala event at the St Au­gus­tine South Recre­ation Ground re­cent­ly.

Mem­bers of the Ro­man Catholic faith gath­ered in their hun­dreds two Sun­days ago for Je­sus Ex­plo­sion 23.

That’s ac­cord­ing to Am­bas­sador Gus­ta­vo Mar­tinez Pan­di­ani, who made the com­ment while speak­ing dur­ing the Ar­gen­tine Na­tion­al Day event at the Clu­b­room, Re­nais­sance at Shore­lands, Glen­coe, Care­nage, on Ju­ly 9.

Fol­low­ing the 49th Meet­ing of the Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment held from Ju­ly 6 to 8 in Ja­maica, Syn­er­gy Sphere Casa (SS­Casa), a T&T-based or­ga­ni­za­tion fo­cused on na­tion­al and re­gion­al work­force de­vel­op­ment strate­gies, is ac­cel­er­at­ing its ef­forts to sup­port re­gion­al ex­pan­sion, with a fo­cus on food se­cu­ri­ty, work­force em­pow­er­ment, and cross-sec­toral col­lab­o­ra­tion.

On Ju­ly 20, the stage at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA) came alive with vi­brant colour, rhythm, and artistry as Bri­an Man­ga­roo’s Khal­nayak Acad­e­my of Dance took cen­tre stage in a spec­tac­u­lar live con­cert.

Cit­i­zens will soon have a rare op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­plore the an­cient spir­i­tu­al dis­ci­pline of Kriya Yo­ga through a se­ries of trans­for­ma­tive work­shops, sched­uled to take place from to­mor­row to Sun­day. The ses­sions will be led by Swa­mi Pur­nat­manan­da Giri, a high­ly re­spect­ed teacher from the Unit­ed States who has walked the Kriya path since 1992 and com­mit­ted his life to spir­i­tu­al ser­vice af­ter join­ing an ashram in 2005.

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.

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.