The rhythm of drums, the shim­mer of se­quins, and the soft clip-clop of hooves filled the air as the Heal­ing with Hors­es Foun­da­tion joined To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val last week­end. From its hill­side haven in Buc­coo, the non-prof­it brought a dif­fer­ent kind of en­er­gy to the cel­e­bra­tions—one where com­pas­sion, cre­ativ­i­ty, and Caribbean spir­it danced side by side.

Chef Umesh Meena is keep­ing the lights burn­ing bright at Meena House, where Di­vali has be­come more than a cel­e­bra­tion—it’s a rit­u­al of food, fam­i­ly, and flavour.

In­spired by an en­dur­ing love for his late fa­ther and the lega­cy he left be­hind, ac­claimed mu­si­cian and steel­pan arranger Am­rit Sama­roo is ho­n­our­ing the life and work of Dr Jit Sukha Sama­roo with a new three-day event — The Dr Jit Sama­roo Mu­sic Fes­ti­val 2025 — to be held from Oc­to­ber 31 to No­vem­ber 2. The fes­ti­val co­in­cides with what would have been Jit Sama­roo’s 75th birth­day, cel­e­brat­ing his un­matched con­tri­bu­tions to T&T’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment and cul­ture.

The Ile Isokan Or­isha Shrine of Febeau Vil­lage, San Juan, brought its 20th An­nu­al Ogun Fes­ti­val to a vi­brant close on Oc­to­ber 12 at City Hall, Port-of-Spain, cul­mi­nat­ing in a grand pro­ces­sion through Wood­ford Square.

Palmiste Park, to­day, a vi­brant pub­lic green space in south­ern Trinidad, holds a much deep­er sto­ry be­neath its sur­face. Re­cent ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search has un­cov­ered traces of a plan­ta­tion com­mu­ni­ty that once stood there, con­nect­ing the park to near­ly two cen­turies of es­tate life.

“They said, ‘You are a sav­age and dan­ger­ous woman.’ I am speak­ing the truth. And the truth is sav­age and dan­ger­ous.”—Naw­al El Saadawi, Woman at Point Ze­ro

As a child, Dr An­jani Ganase would ac­com­pa­ny her grand­fa­ther on his boat to go fish­ing and some­times snorkelling. It would be the start of a life­long ro­mance with the wa­ter. “Get­ting a mask and see­ing what was un­der­wa­ter re­al­ly opened my eyes, and I thought that was pret­ty amaz­ing,” Ganase told WE mag­a­zine in an in­ter­view last week.

Hot flash­es, sleep­less nights, mood changes—for many women, per­i­menopause and menopause can feel like a silent strug­gle. But now, that’s be­gin­ning to change. The Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (FPATT) has launched a first-of-its-kind clin­ic de­signed to guide women through this phase of life with care, un­der­stand­ing, and ex­per­tise.

Chelsea An­dell is a mul­ti-tal­ent­ed per­former from Trinidad and To­ba­go, cel­e­brat­ed as a pro­fes­sion­al dancer and al­so a record­ing artiste, stage-named Sauce the Rap­per. Her pas­sion for the arts be­gan when she was two. By five, she was per­form­ing, and at 12, she be­came an in­struc­tor and even­tu­al­ly grad­u­at­ed from the New York Film Acad­e­my in Act­ing for Film.

From the crick­et fields of Ch­agua­nas to the class­rooms and coach­ing clin­ics across Trinidad and To­ba­go, Pradeep Vish­nu has spent his life shap­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of ath­letes. The 65-year-old for­mer na­tion­al youth crick­eter, coach, and au­thor has made youth de­vel­op­ment not just his ca­reer but his call­ing.

Mar­cia Jem­ma Di­di­er has been spend­ing the last few days dot­ing on her two new grand­chil­dren, who were born two days apart, on Oc­to­ber 14 and 16–some­thing she was un­able to do with an­oth­er grand­child who was born in 2010 fol­low­ing her breast can­cer di­ag­no­sis.

From coils to dou­ble loops to clus­ters, Jan­ice Der­rick’s Jew­ellery pieces are time­less. They seem to cap­ture the el­e­gance of na­ture and the geom­e­try of the world around us.