Hap­py 4th Birth­day to Nao­mi and Kezi­ah Greenidge from Ren’s Bright Be­gin­ners. They cel­e­brat­ed their birth­day on Oc­to­ber 6.

The first time I heard about it, I want­ed to hike there: a lit­er­al plane crash in the mid­dle of the for­est in Trinidad.

Oc­to­ber is over and for many Trin­bag­o­ni­ans, the count­down to Christ­mas has qui­et­ly be­gun. Not just the usu­al con­ver­sa­tions about where we will lime, what we will cook and who is host­ing this year, but con­ver­sa­tions about the house.

Oc­to­ber is Ca­lyp­so His­to­ry Month in Trinidad and To­ba­go, a time to cel­e­brate, re­flect up­on and pre­serve one of our na­tion’s great­est cul­tur­al gifts to the world. Yet, this Oc­to­ber 2026, as we come to its end, car­ries a par­tic­u­lar­ly poignant sig­nif­i­cance, com­ing as it does in the wake of the pass­ing of the leg­endary Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co, uni­ver­sal­ly ac­claimed as the Ca­lyp­so King of the World and, more re­cent­ly, An­tho­ny Em­rold “Broth­er Valenti­no” Phillip.

Re­sis­tance is an on­go­ing body of work by artist Natasha Ma­habir-Per­sad, ex­plor­ing Caribbean his­tor­i­cal mem­o­ry through the lives of peo­ple who re­sist­ed, chal­lenged or dis­rupt­ed sys­tems of pow­er.

More than 20 years ago, she watched her moth­er, Anne Boodoo, lose her bat­tle with ovar­i­an can­cer. Anne was 47.

Though he has been paint­ing for years, peo­ple still stop for­mer na­tion­al cy­clist Michael Phillips at events or on the road and ex­press com­plete shock when they learn that he is al­so an artist—and a pret­ty good one, too.

The Lost Tribe has com­plet­ed the sec­ond edi­tion of Car­ni­val Cam­pus, an in­ten­sive train­ing pro­gramme aimed at equip­ping emerg­ing de­sign­ers, ar­ti­sans and pro­duc­tion spe­cial­ists with the skills need­ed to build ca­reers in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cre­ative in­dus­tries.

For renowned artist Jack­ie Hink­son, cre­at­ing a piece of work is a qui­et, con­tin­u­ous con­ver­sa­tion be­tween nar­ra­tive and form. Ahead of his up­com­ing ex­hi­bi­tion this No­vem­ber, Hink­son shares a rare look in­to the cre­ative phi­los­o­phy that un­der­pins his decades-span­ning ca­reer and guides his lat­est col­lec­tion.

Pow­er­ful dy­nas­ties from across the world will con­verge on San Fer­nan­do as Fyr­na­tion pre­pares to trans­form the streets in­to a spec­tac­u­lar show­case of colour, cre­ativ­i­ty and re­gal splen­dour for Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day 2027.

When Melanie Par­ris was di­ag­nosed with stage three breast can­cer at the age of 28, she strug­gled to rec­on­cile the news with the world around her. Near­ly three decades lat­er, at 57, she is liv­ing proof that a can­cer di­ag­no­sis does not have to mark the end of one’s sto­ry.

Den­im, di­a­monds and daz­zling style took cen­tre stage as in­sur­ance and fi­nan­cial pro­fes­sion­als trad­ed their work at­tire for fash­ion­able en­sem­bles at the Den­im and Di­a­monds par­ty, host­ed by the South Chap­ter of the Trinidad and To­ba­go As­so­ci­a­tion of In­sur­ance and Fi­nan­cial Ad­vi­sors (TTAIFA) at Car­ni­val City, Gulf City, on Sat­ur­day Oc­to­ber 17.