From the bub­bling of hot oil to the rhyth­mic stir­ring of bat­ter, kitchens across T&T hum with heat, hus­tle, and the promise of some­thing sweet for Di­vali.

For Nir­mala Ses­narayan, be­ing a good Hin­du woman means be­ing a good wife, daugh­ter, sis­ter, moth­er, and a good per­son in gen­er­al.

The San­ta Rosa First Peo­ples host­ed this year’s Amerindi­an Her­itage Fes­ti­val last Thurs­day at the Ari­ma Riv­er, along the Ari­ma-Blan­chisseuse Road.

Thanks to new so­lar tech­nol­o­gy, the cen­tre—the heart­beat of the eco-tourism vil­lage and home to a choco­late fac­to­ry, guid­ed tours, and a tur­tle hatch­ery—now op­er­ates as a self-sus­tain­ing hub of re­new­able en­er­gy, pow­er­ing es­sen­tial com­mu­ni­ty en­ter­pris­es and sup­port­ing long-term de­vel­op­ment.

Oc­to­ber 18 marks the last chance this year for pan lovers world­wide to ex­pe­ri­ence steel­pan at its finest at a Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion. As part of Pan Trin­ba­go’s 2025 Panora­ma cal­en­dar, which runs from No­vem­ber 2024, To­ba­go will host its new­ly mint­ed Na­tion­al Panora­ma Com­pe­ti­tion, PanOmega — a re-imag­ined, re­struc­tured, and re­brand­ed ver­sion of the for­mer THA Pan Champs, tra­di­tion­al­ly held in Feb­ru­ary.

A shared com­mit­ment to com­mu­ni­ty well-be­ing took cen­tre stage on Sep­tem­ber 26, as Cream­ery Yo­gurt and the T&T Can­cer So­ci­ety (TTCS) of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced a new part­ner­ship aimed at rais­ing funds and aware­ness in the fight against can­cer.

To­ba­go’s pre­mier jazz ex­pe­ri­ence is back and big­ger than ever. Beach­front Jazz 2026 will light up the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach & Golf Re­sort from April 30 to May 3, as part of the To­ba­go Jazz Mu­sic and Golf Week­end. This year’s fes­ti­val promis­es a vi­brant cel­e­bra­tion of Caribbean jazz rhythms, artistry and is­land spir­it.

On a Sun­day in Bar­ba­dos when The Mighty Gab­by was grow­ing up, his fam­i­ly would lis­ten to Trinidad’s ca­lyp­so mu­sic on a pro­gramme host­ed by late ra­dio per­son­al­i­ty Kath­leen Warn­er, who was fond­ly known as Aun­ty Kay. From Kitch­en­er to Spar­row to Spoil­er, Gab­by, whose name is An­tho­ny Carter, was ex­posed to the greats of ca­lyp­so from an ear­ly age.

“Some­times a paint­ing choos­es you, not the oth­er way around,” re­flect­ed painter, writer, and di­rec­tor Vidya Birk­hoff.

T he Hin­du Prachaar Kendra’s Chil­dren’s Ram­leela, Baal Ramdil­la, re­turned to the Kendra Greens, Raghu­nanan Road, En­ter­prise, with three spec­tac­u­lar nights of per­for­mances from Oc­to­ber 3-5.

So­ca pow­er­house Kes and the dy­nam­ic Free­town Col­lec­tive de­liv­ered elec­tri­fy­ing per­for­mances at Maples & Mas, host­ed by the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion at Green Mead­ows, San­ta Cruz, on Oc­to­ber 4.

Be­fore Di­vali’s lights glow and Ram­leela’s drums roll, Fe­lic­i­ty awak­ens to a dif­fer­ent rhythm — the sharp snap of bam­boo un­der skilled hands. While the spec­ta­cle of Ra­van’s ef­fi­gy burn­ing usu­al­ly cap­tures the spot­light, this year at­ten­tion turns ear­li­er, to the ar­ti­sans and vol­un­teers who build it, bam­boo by bam­boo.