Parish­ioners from the St Philip and St James RC Church in Ch­agua­nas con­tin­ued their pil­grim­age with a vis­it to To­ba­go two week­ends ago.

Lin­da Bhag­wan­dass-Gob­in has spent her ca­reer in beau­ty ther­a­py, but it’s been more than fa­cials and skin­care; it’s been a life­long jour­ney of help­ing oth­ers un­der­stand that beau­ty is sub­jec­tive and is a choice of em­brac­ing one­self.

The rhythm of so­ca, the tow­er­ing moko jumbies, and the sea of flags wav­ing proud­ly in the air–this is the heart­beat of Carib­ana week­end in Toron­to. At the cen­tre of it all, en­sur­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence feels as au­then­tic as Trinidad Car­ni­val it­self, is An­drew Shaylen­dra Lal­la.

To help raise funds for the 16 so­cial min­istries run by the Liv­ing Wa­ter Com­mu­ni­ty, the cor­po­rate sec­tor and top lo­cal chefs, artists, de­sign­ers and en­ter­tain­ers, in part­ner­ship with the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre and Bri­an Mac Far­lane, came to­geth­er un­der the theme “The Joy of Our Na­tion” on Au­gust 30.

For years, Dr Nadya Wat­son has been a steady, com­pas­sion­ate pres­ence for pa­tients fac­ing life’s most dif­fi­cult mo­ments. As a pal­lia­tive care physi­cian, she built her ca­reer on of­fer­ing com­fort, dig­ni­ty, and un­der­stand­ing when they were need­ed most.

The uni­ver­si­ty’s Goth­ic arch­es and carved stone tow­ers—17th cen­tu­ry and 20th min­gling seam­less­ly — were lit by lacy, tree-fil­tered sun­light in the ear­ly au­tumn light, of­fer­ing a sanc­tu­ary in an in­creas­ing­ly po­larised Amer­i­ca.

When she speaks about eti­quette, her voice car­ries both au­thor­i­ty and warmth. At 51, af­ter decades im­mersed in hos­pi­tal­i­ty and man­age­ment, Sher­mane Rivers has trans­formed her life­long pas­sion for ex­cel­lence in cus­tomer ser­vice in­to the re­gion’s pre­mier train­ing hub: the Eti­quette School of the Caribbean.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has long been a coun­try of great art and artists. How­ev­er, Kristy John­son is an emerg­ing artist with a dif­fer­ent type of art. She prac­tis­es fused glass art. It refers to art­work cre­at­ed by melt­ing and join­ing two or more pieces of com­pat­i­ble glass in a kiln to form a sin­gle, uni­fied piece. It is as com­plex as it sounds.

Ro­tary T&T is bring­ing back its sig­na­ture fundrais­er, Hats & Heels, for a sec­ond daz­zling edi­tion to­mor­row at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad. The styl­ish af­ter­noon af­fair runs from 3–6 pm (doors open at 2 pm) and co­in­cides with the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of Peace, un­der­scor­ing Ro­tary’s com­mit­ment to build­ing a more com­pas­sion­ate and in­clu­sive world.

Leg­endary reg­gae singer JC Lodge will per­form in T&T on No­vem­ber 1, bring­ing a wave of nos­tal­gia to lo­cal mu­sic lovers.

Pa­trons of WAND’s Den­im & Di­a­monds fundrais­er held at VICE night­club on Sep­tem­ber 13 were treat­ed to an un­for­get­table evening filled with non-stop en­ter­tain­ment, en­er­gy, and ex­cite­ment.

Some of the na­tion’s top ju­nior steel­bands will con­verge on the grounds of San Juan North Sec­ondary School on Sep­tem­ber 27 for a Youth Steel­pan Jam­boree de­scribed by the school’s Mu­sic De­part­ment as “a plat­form for emerg­ing steel­pan mu­si­cians.”