Against all odds, Tia Di­nanath per­se­vered in a field that few are brave enough to en­ter in her com­mu­ni­ty of Ma­yaro and that per­se­ver­ance and re­silience helped her to win the Caribbean Ris­ing Stars in Beau­ty 2022, a com­mu­ni­ty-based com­pe­ti­tion where par­tic­i­pants com­pete for a schol­ar­ship at Ca­reer De­vel­op­ment In­sti­tute.

Don­ald John­son turned 103 on June 7, and as he cel­e­brat­ed the birth­day mile­stone he ad­vised the na­tion’s youth to ho­n­our their par­ents, trust God and pray.

Thir­ty-five years ago when Pul­waty Ho­lass-Beepath and her hus­band moved to To­ba­go to man­age her Trinida­di­an boss’ hard­ware, she was tak­en aback when there was no mandir or tem­ple for her fam­i­ly to con­duct wor­ship.

The Na­tion­al Mus­lim Women’s Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NM­WOTT) re­cent­ly dis­trib­uted twen­ty-five thou­sand seedlings to schools to com­mem­o­rate World En­vi­ron­ment Day. World En­vi­ron­ment Day (WED) is cel­e­brat­ed an­nu­al­ly on 5 June and is the Unit­ed Na­tions’ prin­ci­pal ve­hi­cle for en­cour­ag­ing aware­ness and ac­tion for the pro­tec­tion of the en­vi­ron­ment.

If you hap­pen to live in the La Ro­maine area by the Gulf City traf­fic lights or have tak­en a Sun­day morn­ing trip in the vicin­i­ty, chances are that you have caught a glimpse of a pa­rade of vin­tage and clas­sic ve­hi­cles just off South Trunk Road or at least a view of a parked line­up of the old-time ve­hi­cles.

As part of its con­tin­ued ef­forts to com­bat cli­mate change, in the lead up to World En­vi­ron­ment Day (June 5), Sco­tia­bank has em­barked up­on ini­tia­tives that help dri­ve pos­i­tive en­vi­ron­men­tal ac­tion.

South African singer/song writer Nom­ce­bo is com­ing to T&T for Car­ni­val 2023, but, be­fore that, she is ex­pect­ed to vis­it in Ju­ly this year to en­gage in the cre­ative process for her so­ca-afro beat col­lab­o­ra­tions with lo­cal so­ca artistes.

The Film & Folk­lore Fes­ti­val (FFF) has an­nounced that the fes­ti­val will be hold­ing a se­ries of live events at Sandy Hill Na­ture Park and Ter­race over the course of the fes­ti­val days—June 24 to 26, 2022.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo has praised De Road Make to Walk, a ca­lyp­so mu­si­cal as a proud and well-doc­u­ment­ed mo­ment in lo­cal his­to­ry that chron­i­cled the life of icon­ic Ald­wyn Roberts which was pro­duced by the Fyz­abad Con­nec­tion The­atre Com­pa­ny.

The To­ba­go Hin­du So­ci­ety held its an­nu­al In­di­an Ar­rival Day cel­e­bra­tion on Sun­day at the Es­planade, Scar­bor­ough To­ba­go.

Pho­tog­ra­phers en­joyed a suc­cess­ful Pho­towalk held by the Pho­tog­ra­phers Guild TT. The walk was led by renowned award-win­ning pho­tog­ra­ph­er Antony Scul­ly, who spe­cialis­es in var­i­ous light­ing tech­niques for pho­tog­ra­phy.

The semi­fi­nal round of the three-year and im­mense­ly-grow­ing on­line steel­pan com­pe­ti­tion, PanoGra­ma, was held on May 29, from 8 to 10 pm, where 20 pan­nists rep­re­sent­ing eight coun­tries par­tic­i­pat­ed. Ten ad­vanced to the fi­nals. To set the tone as an open­ing act, was Cana­da’s Gabriel Char­trand.