To­day, as Trinidad and To­ba­go marks Eman­ci­pa­tion Day, style serves as a medi­um for sto­ry­telling, cul­tur­al pride and her­itage. Glob­al­ly, African fash­ion con­tin­ues to ex­pe­ri­ence a ma­jor re­nais­sance, mak­ing its way on­to run­ways and in­to main­stream re­tail mar­kets. Rich tex­tiles, Ankara prints and ar­ti­sanal crafts­man­ship show how his­to­ry meets mod­ern lux­u­ry. Lo­cal­ly, cre­ators stand among the best when it comes to cloth­ing and jew­ellery drawn from the moth­er­land.

Mu­sic, food and craft came to­geth­er at Sound Forge in Mu­cu­rapo on June 18 as the Fête de la Musique re­turned to Port-of-Spain for its 2026 edi­tion.

Sev­en­teen women will com­pete for the Miss Trinidad and To­ba­go World 2026 ti­tle, with the can­di­dates for­mal­ly un­veiled at an event in Mar­aval last Sun­day.

Her voice is well known on the sound­tracks of Caribbean mu­sic, hav­ing pro­vid­ed back­ing vo­cals for cel­e­brat­ed ca­lyp­so and so­ca artistes such as The Mighty Spar­row, Lord Kitch­en­er, Shad­ow, David Rud­der, Machel Mon­tano and De­stra Gar­cia. She has toured ex­ten­sive­ly with the leg­endary Kas­sav’, per­form­ing in French and Cre­ole, and was a mem­ber of the Caribbean girl group Shades of Black, which was signed to Sony France. She has even col­lab­o­rat­ed with in­ter­na­tion­al Gram­my Award-win­ning acts such as Shab­ba Ranks and Tony! Toni! Toné!

Miles away from any desert, bazaar or sand dunes, the An­chor­age Beach Club was the scene of Ara­bi­an-style mys­ti­cism as Pa­parazzi un­veiled their Car­ni­val 2027 col­lec­tion, Fes: Whis­pers of the Med­i­na, be­fore crowds of ea­ger spec­ta­tors last Sat­ur­day.

Fans of the lo­cal reg­gae and so­ca singer, known for hits like An­oth­er One Gone, Zion Train and Got­ta Get You Girl, have prob­a­bly no­ticed his dras­tic weight loss over the last two years, and it’s most­ly due to chang­ing the foods he ate and cook­ing his own meals.

Perched on a windswept hill­side along a dirt track off Canaan Road, La Ro­maine, three weath­ered tombs stand qui­et­ly be­neath trees, their stone walls and fenc­ing stur­dy de­spite the forces of na­ture.

Every week­day, tens of thou­sands of mo­torists speed along the Beetham High­way, glanc­ing to­wards Beetham Gar­dens, a com­mu­ni­ty whose name has be­come one of the most recog­nis­able and of­ten mis­un­der­stood in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

This may be a touchy sub­ject for a coun­try like Trinidad and To­ba­go, where there is a bar on just about every cor­ner, but that may be the very rea­son why this sto­ry is worth read­ing.

Un­less it’s COVID or dengue, there’s noth­ing that pan­ics par­ents more, es­pe­cial­ly those who work out­side their home, than a buss head. It seems that per­sis­tent ex­po­sure to Amer­i­can sit­coms and CNN hor­ror sto­ries has thrown com­mon sense out the win­dow. Luck­i­ly, there are still some grand­par­ents around who re­mem­ber what they did when their chil­dren got a blow to the head and can re­as­sure their adult off­spring.

The brain al­lows us to walk, speak, recog­nise a fa­mil­iar face, feel emo­tions and store mem­o­ries. It al­so con­trols judg­ment and de­ci­sion-mak­ing, which are qual­i­ties worth pro­tect­ing in cit­i­zens and en­cour­ag­ing in politi­cians. When some­thing goes wrong, it spreads through fam­i­lies, work­places and com­mu­ni­ties.

Pet own­ers fac­ing com­plex ill­ness­es af­fect­ing their an­i­mals have had lim­it­ed op­tions in T&T over the years.