One of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most dis­tin­guished vo­cal­ists, Char­maine Forde, steps bold­ly back in­to cen­tre stage this De­cem­ber with a tril­o­gy of con­certs ho­n­our­ing more than four decades of mu­si­cal ex­cel­lence. Pro­duced by cul­tur­al cu­ra­tor Richard Young, the se­ries of­fers an in­ti­mate, pow­er­ful en­counter with a Caribbean icon whose artistry con­tin­ues to tran­scend trends, bor­ders, and gen­er­a­tions.

For over 62 years, gen­er­a­tions of faith­ful pa­trons have de­clared: “Christ­mas be­gins with the Mar­i­onettes!” This De­cem­ber, the Mar­i­onettes Chorale re­turns to Queen’s Hall’s Winifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um from De­cem­ber 5 to 7, invit­ing au­di­ences to ring in the sea­son with their beloved hol­i­day tra­di­tion—a con­cert se­ries that con­tin­ues to warm hearts across the coun­try.

The For­ev­er Star Wars ex­hi­bi­tion, host­ed on No­vem­ber 9 at Arn­im’s Art Gal­le­ria, 27 Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, and pre­sent­ed by Jus­tice Gillian Lucky, drew Star Wars en­thu­si­asts from all walks of life—across gen­er­a­tions and so­cial back­grounds. The unique show­case was spe­cial­ly de­signed to cre­ate an un­for­get­table ex­pe­ri­ence for fans, unite those who share a love for the leg­endary saga, and raise funds for wor­thy caus­es.

When you walk in­to DH Mai­son in Mar­aval, it’s hard not to pause. Soft mu­sic floats through the air, the scent of cap­puc­ci­no and cin­na­mon fills the room, and Christ­mas lights twin­kle against a back­drop of cu­rat­ed beau­ty. Every cor­ner tells a sto­ry—a col­lec­tion of tex­tures, tones, and de­sign mo­ments that feel like home, on­ly el­e­vat­ed.

Now in its 61st year, Wildlife Pho­tog­ra­ph­er of the Year—the Nat­ur­al His­to­ry Mu­se­um, Lon­don’s glob­al plat­form for the world’s best na­ture pho­tog­ra­phy and wildlife pho­to­jour­nal­ism—has come to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Dr Krys­tal-Jane Ve­rasam­my grew up in San­ta Cruz, where strong com­mu­ni­ty ties shaped her ear­ly sense of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and care. She at­tend­ed Sa­cred Heart Girls’ RC and lat­er Holy Name Con­vent in Port-of-Spain. Even in sec­ondary school, from as ear­ly as Form Six, she felt com­pelled to be­come a psy­chol­o­gist. While class­mates pur­sued lead­er­ship roles such as cap­tain and pre­fect, she trained as a peer coun­sel­lor through an NGO part­ner­ship with her school.

Trinida­di­an artist Si­mone Jacelon is giv­ing au­di­ences a new way to ex­pe­ri­ence her ac­claimed ex­hi­bi­tion, The Flow of Her—this time in an in­ti­mate, sen­so­ry-rich set­ting at Ukiyo Restau­rant. Af­ter cap­ti­vat­ing view­ers at The BRIX, Au­to­graph Col­lec­tion, the artist now of­fers a week-long ex­ten­sion that in­vites guests to en­counter her lat­est works up close, sur­round­ed by the warmth, fra­grance, and am­bi­ence of a cu­rat­ed din­ing space.

The Aripo Dat­ta Gan­ga lies along the Aripo Road. It was es­tab­lished by His Ho­li­ness Sri Swa­mi Gana­p­a­thy Sachchi­danan­da, Spir­i­tu­al Leader of the Dat­ta­treya Yo­ga Cen­tre based in Mysore, In­dia, who jour­neyed west in search of the holy riv­er Sararipu Na­di, ref­er­enced in the an­cient Hin­du scrip­ture, the Brah­manan­da Pu­rana.

For years, gourmet pas­try chef Nazeem Baksh be­lieved his fu­ture was set—root­ed firm­ly in oil and gas as a plant op­er­a­tor at Petrotrin. But what he didn’t re­alise was that the sci­ence that would tru­ly shape his life wasn’t buried deep in the re­fin­ery. It was wait­ing qui­et­ly in the warmth of a kitchen.

“Why can’t life be sweet like the scent of this night?” ex­claimed a Ger­man first-time tourist to Trinidad while en­joy­ing the in­au­gur­al Steel­pan and Pow­der Pa­rade (SPP) in Tu­na­puna on No­vem­ber 15.

Three-time Chut­ney So­ca Monarch GI (Im­ran Be­har­ry) has of­fi­cial­ly joined T&T’s most en­er­getic live so­ca out­fit, The A Team Band, ahead of Car­ni­val 2026. The Bun­ga­low Restau­rant and Lounge in St Clair came alive last week as the band un­veiled its new front­line singers and de­liv­ered a dy­nam­ic, genre-blend­ing per­for­mance for pro­mot­ers, spon­sors and spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests.