Med­i­cine and imag­ing have made ex­po­nen­tial strides in the man­age­ment of breast can­cer. Con­se­quent­ly, the treat­ment land­scape for women with this dis­ease has been rev­o­lu­tion­ary. Once di­ag­nosed ear­ly, women to­day can look for­ward to a pos­i­tive life tra­jec­to­ry. As a re­sult, it is not un­com­mon for me to see young women di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer in my prac­tice.

Hun­dreds turned out as the St Charles (Tu­na­puna) Girls’ Ro­man Catholic School held its walkathon last Sat­ur­day.

The First Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege Scout Band and Group, renowned for nur­tur­ing gen­er­a­tions of young mu­si­cians and up­hold­ing the scout­ing spir­it, is cel­e­brat­ing a gold­en mile­stone—50 years of the QRC Scout Show. The an­niver­sary con­cert, themed Through the Years, takes place at Queen’s Hall on No­vem­ber 1 and 2, promis­ing a mu­si­cal jour­ney from camp­fire sin­ga­longs to con­cert hall per­for­mances.

Na­tion­al Freestyle Cham­pi­on and so­ca star Akeem “Preedy” Chance has re­turned from Japan with a re­newed sense of pride and pur­pose, af­ter show­cas­ing his mu­sic to en­thu­si­as­tic new au­di­ences across the Pa­cif­ic.

T he in­flu­ence of dance in Latin Amer­i­can cul­ture took cen­tre stage at the fifth edi­tion of Latin Night, host­ed by the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS) on Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain, ear­li­er this month.

The Bel­mont Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre came alive re­cent­ly, as sev­en young women com­pet­ed for the Miss Bel­mont Queen ti­tle.

There are mo­ments in fash­ion that do more than daz­zle; they shift the cul­tur­al ax­is. The night of Oc­to­ber 17 in Not­ting Hill, the epi­cen­tre of Caribbean en­er­gy in Eng­land, was one of them.

Michael Booth­man’s cre­den­tials as a mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary “cre­ative” (his word) were once again es­tab­lished be­yond rea­son­able doubt in Ret­ro­spec­tive—a re­cent and mem­o­rable so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion host­ed by Arn­im’s Art Gallery in Port-of-Spain.

Di­vali in Cunu­pia 2025 un­fold­ed as a lu­mi­nous cel­e­bra­tion of light over dark­ness—a night that tran­scend­ed tra­di­tion to em­brace re­new­al, grat­i­tude, and to­geth­er­ness.

In 2023, singer, song­writer, ac­tor, and pro­duc­er Kar­la C Gon­za­les faced one of the tough­est chal­lenges of her ca­reer. Years af­ter a fall dur­ing a per­for­mance—which she had then dis­missed as “just a fall”—ex­cru­ci­at­ing pain resur­faced, leav­ing her de­pen­dent on a walk­er or walk­ing stick, and forc­ing her to per­form seat­ed at times.

The pro­duc­tion Min­neso­ta 10,000 Lakes Meets Trinidad Car­ni­val took New York Fash­ion Week (NYFW) 2025 by storm on Sep­tem­ber 13, when vi­brant Caribbean fash­ion house Mum & Me Pro­duc­tion (MMP) staged its sec­ond an­nu­al show­case. The event was host­ed by Fash­ion Life Tour (FTL).

In cel­e­bra­tion of the 40th an­niver­sary of diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions be­tween the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea and T&T, as well as Ko­rea’s Na­tion­al Foun­da­tion Day, the Em­bassy of the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea host­ed a cul­tur­al event show­cas­ing artistes from both na­tions.