The sweet strains of cu­a­tro, mara­cas and box bass filled the air at El Do­ra­do East Sec­ondary School as young per­form­ers from across Trinidad and To­ba­go gath­ered for the Na­tion­al Parang As­so­ci­a­tion’s So­mos Un So­lo Pueblo—Ju­nior Parang Fes­ti­val and Com­pe­ti­tion 2025. Held over two days, No­vem­ber 15 and 16, the fes­ti­val drew 40 schools—25 pri­ma­ry and 15 sec­ondary—all ea­ger to show­case their tal­ent, cul­tur­al pride and deep­en­ing love for parang.

For over two decades, Jazz Artists on the Greens has been a big part of T&T’s live mu­sic cal­en­dar. But come 2026, that rhythm will pause. Pro­duc­tion One Lim­it­ed (POL) has an­nounced the can­cel­la­tion of the beloved sig­na­ture event, sig­nalling a ma­jor re­cal­i­bra­tion of how the com­pa­ny nav­i­gates the lo­cal en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try.

Leg­endary West In­dies crick­eter Bri­an Lara has of­fi­cial­ly un­veiled his lat­est ven­ture—the 277 Restau­rant, lo­cat­ed at the Mil­len­ni­um Lakes Golf and Coun­try Club in Trinci­ty.

Lu­cin­da “Mi­ni” Smith, a tire­less source of kind­ness and com­fort in her com­mu­ni­ty, has been named the CIBC Caribbean Re­gion­al Un­sung Hero for 2025.

Hun­dreds gath­ered at the NCIC Na­gar, Ch­agua­nas, on Tues­day to ob­serve Kaal Bhairav Jayan­ti—Rise of the Guardian, host­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Ya­tra Com­mit­tee (TTYC).

Pover­ty, the loss of both par­ents in La­gos, mi­gra­tion to Lon­don, an abu­sive mar­riage, and years of sin­gle moth­er­hood and low-paid work formed the con­di­tions out of which Buchi Emecheta wrote. Writ­ing stead­ied her, saved her, and moved her out of the mar­gins she had oc­cu­pied in Britain. Over her ca­reer, Emecheta pub­lished more than twen­ty books—nov­els, es­says, chil­dren’s sto­ries and an au­to­bi­og­ra­phy—mak­ing her one of the most wide­ly read African writ­ers of her gen­er­a­tion. In 2005, she was ap­point­ed OBE for ser­vices to lit­er­a­ture.

Akua Lei­th has come to un­der­stand that good health is a form of wealth—and that poor health can drain both life and re­sources. The high­ly dec­o­rat­ed mu­si­cian and steel­pan in­no­va­tor has nav­i­gat­ed dan­ger­ous twists and turns through­out his life, but al­ways en­vi­sioned great­ness wait­ing on the oth­er side. He at­tend­ed St Ann’s Pri­ma­ry and South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary be­fore even­tu­al­ly pro­gress­ing to ter­tiary stud­ies lo­cal­ly and abroad. But the path was any­thing but smooth.

When Trinidad-born vo­cal­ist Ger­ard Placide stepped on­to the ice at the UBS Are­na in Long Is­land, New York, on No­vem­ber 7, his pow­er­ful ren­di­tion of the Unit­ed States Na­tion­al An­them si­lenced a crowd of 17,000.

Ther­mome­ters hit 31 de­grees Cel­sius in south Trinidad on Wednes­day, but ear­ly Car­ni­val ac­tion at Kairi Peo­ple’s Run­away all-in­clu­sive event made the at­mos­phere at South­ern Ranch in Debe feel even hot­ter.

Is the COP process re­al­ly work­ing? Does it meet the needs of the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty in 2025? And why, af­ter ten years, has the world moved fur­ther and faster away from the Paris Agree­ment? The Unit­ed Na­tions has some an­swer­ing to do.

When Bri­an Wick­ham be­came a teacher at the new­ly opened Bish­op Anstey Trin­i­ty Col­lege East (BATCE), his fo­cus was al­ways on de­vel­op­ing the whole child—not just the aca­d­e­mics. Al­most 25 years lat­er, as act­ing head of ad­min­is­tra­tion, his vi­sion re­mains the same.

The Trin­i­ty Dance The­atre of Trinidad and To­ba­go cap­ti­vat­ed au­di­ences at Queen’s Hall with its lat­est pro­duc­tion, Seeds.