Imag­ine your­self bask­ing un­der the blaz­ing fur­nace in the sky, bit­ing in­to a juicy, ex­ot­ic fruit from is­land trees—or savour­ing the rich, dark sweet­ness of choco­late made from T&T’s prized co­coa beans—while a cool­ing sea breeze ca­ress­es you.

Let’s Golf To­ba­go, an NGO formed in Oc­to­ber 2021 by trail­blaz­er Ar­i­fa Bansal, is the first ju­nior clin­ic to be held un­der the aus­pices of the Chief Sec­re­tary’s Char­i­ty Golf Tour­na­ment in Low­lands, To­ba­go.

“I love to sit at the feet of the gen­er­a­tions be­fore me who are good busi­ness lead­ers and ex­perts in com­mu­ni­ca­tions.” Near­ly 30 years in the com­mu­ni­ca­tions busi­ness, Lisa-Ann Joseph says she is still learn­ing, a for­ev­er stu­dent, and that “knowl­edge trans­fer trick­les in­to every sin­gle thing that I do.”

It’s no won­der that we want to look and feel like our most spec­tac­u­lar selves dur­ing the hol­i­days; it’s a so­cial time when many of us con­nect with loved ones, col­leagues, and fam­i­ly and hair can play a big role in the im­pres­sion we want to make. You look good you feel bet­ter. It can be a hair colour trans­for­ma­tion or just sim­ple styling. Trendy hol­i­day is a hair af­fair.

Ria Ram­bal­ly, CNC3 News An­chor, and Kar­lon Batchas­ingh, the pres­i­dent of TRIN­GEN (Trinidad Ni­tro­gen Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed), cel­e­brat­ed a beau­ti­ful mile­stone in their lives as they ex­changed vows in an in­ti­mate cer­e­mo­ny.

She start­ed her make-up jour­ney in the ear­ly months of 2011 and con­tin­ued to build her style and tech­niques over the years. The evo­lu­tion of make-up over the years caught her at­ten­tion and sparked her in­ter­est. “I was ac­tu­al­ly on the ca­reer path of be­ing in the cor­po­rate world, but I al­ways say that God called, and I an­swered,” she said.

These time­less lyrics from Bob Mar­ley sparked some­thing deep with­in Teneille Young, a Trinida­di­an singer-song­writer whose jour­ney re­flects the same soul­ful essence.

For more than three decades, Pa­per Based Book­shop has stood as a bea­con of lit­er­ary cul­ture in T&T. Es­tab­lished in 1987 by Joan Day­al, the shop carved a niche as a hub of Caribbean lit­er­a­ture. Day­al’s vi­sion was to cre­ate a sanc­tu­ary for re­gion­al voic­es, al­low­ing au­thors, po­ets, and thinkers to share their sto­ries with an ea­ger au­di­ence. Over time, Pa­per Based be­came more than a book­store—a cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tion, a space for dis­cov­ery, con­ver­sa­tion, and com­mu­ni­ty.

Noah Adisa Rud­der, 21, youngest son of ca­lyp­so icon David Michael Rud­der was re­cent­ly named among 11 Cana­di­an stu­dents award­ed Rhodes Schol­ar­ships to study at Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty next year. A fourth-year stu­dent from Ajax, On­tario, study­ing at Vic­to­ria Col­lege, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, Noah is pur­su­ing a dou­ble ma­jor in Peace, Con­flict and Jus­tice, and Dra­ma.

Ab­dul Ol­livierre is a re­lent­less young in­di­vid­ual who does not let any chal­lenge keep him back as he pur­sues his life and ca­reer goals.

Sto­ry­telling is a skill Trin­bag­o­ni­ans have mas­tered. Be­yond our tal­ent for re­count­ing a good “bac­cha­nal scene,” our lo­cal and Caribbean folk­lore are unique­ly rich, cap­tur­ing dif­fer­ent as­pects of our cul­ture and his­to­ry. But what if we could bring these sto­ries to life—cre­at­ing a state-of-the-art tourist at­trac­tion?

Ver­si d’Amore: A Sym­pho­ny of Ro­mance, brought to­geth­er some of the coun­try’s finest tal­ents for a one-night-on­ly per­for­mance at the Winifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um, Queen’s Hall, on No­vem­ber 2.