Fash­ion de­sign­er Ecliff Elie brought glam­our and en­er­gy to Ari­api­ta Av­enue on June 4 with An Evening of the Ecliff Elie Ex­pe­ri­ence, un­veil­ing his new be­spoke ate­lier in a re­fined launch that fused lux­u­ry, style and hos­pi­tal­i­ty.

Lap­tops and cof­fee cups are com­mon­place at cafés, but at one lo­cal cof­fee house, a man’s work­space is cov­ered with pen­cils, pa­pers and sketch­es.

For De­ok­ie Ker­ry Ra­jaram, cro­chet is more than yarn and nee­dles. It is a pas­sion, a cre­ative es­cape and a grow­ing busi­ness built stitch by stitch from de­ter­mi­na­tion, pa­tience and self-teach­ing.

George Gon­za­les got ex­pelled from school in Form One. A pupil of Mu­cu­rapo Ju­nior Sec­ondary, he was the on­ly “white boy” among his peers. One day, a class­mate, whom he bare­ly re­mem­bers ex­cept by the name Cruick­shank, made a racist joke. He was nev­er one to back down from pi­cong, so George fired right back. That was the end of his ed­u­ca­tion.

Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine and one of the most re­spect­ed en­ti­ties of Gas­par­il­lo in South Trinidad, his band Dil-E-Nadan, are cel­e­brat­ing one of their strongest in­ter­na­tion­al runs to date, fol­low­ing a sold-out head­line per­for­mance at the Hard Rock Café in Hol­ly­wood, Flori­da, on May 9, 2026. The mile­stone per­for­mance marked the chut­ney so­ca artiste’s in­au­gur­al head­line act at the pres­ti­gious venue, adding an­oth­er his­toric mo­ment to the band’s grow­ing glob­al jour­ney.

T&T con­tin­ues to dis­play its im­pact and ver­sa­til­i­ty in the mu­sic in­dus­try, se­cur­ing mul­ti­ple nom­i­na­tions across 23 cat­e­gories for the 2026 Caribbean Mu­sic Awards. Fans can now vote for their favourite singers, DJs, film-mak­ers, pro­duc­ers and events on­line un­til Au­gust 10.

Point Fortin dancer Shemic St Hillaire flew T&T’s flag high as he re­cent­ly com­plet­ed a dance-the­atre res­i­den­cy at Ober­lin Col­lege, Ohio, in the US. As he re­turns home for the next few months, he is gear­ing up for his own pro­duc­tion ti­tled Upinde II on June 12 in San Fer­nan­do.

As many Trin­bag­o­ni­ans spend the Cor­pus Christi hol­i­day in deep spir­i­tu­al re­flec­tion, Surya Chai Well­ness Cafe of­fers an op­por­tu­ni­ty to think more deeply about the re­la­tion­ship be­tween food, well­ness, and mind­ful liv­ing all year round.

Baal Vikaas Vi­haar is root­ed in the idea of the de­vel­op­ment or blos­som­ing of the child, and serves as a spir­i­tu­al gath­er­ing or place of wor­ship.

There’s some­thing about the World Cup that does re­al mag­ic to or­di­nary spaces. A par­lour TV sud­den­ly turns in­to front-row seats, and a sim­ple fam­i­ly lime starts feel­ing like a full-on sup­port­ers’ club. Every­body be­comes a coach overnight—ar­gu­ing penal­ties, ques­tion­ing line-ups, de­bat­ing ref­er­ee­ing de­ci­sions—while strangers end up bond­ing over a bril­liant goal like they’ve known each oth­er from birth.

Fyz­abad in south­ern Trinidad is con­sid­ered to be the birth­place of the mod­ern trade union move­ment, specif­i­cal­ly the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).

Cen­turies of tra­di­tion from West Africa have sur­vived coloni­sa­tion, pass­ing from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion, leav­ing a lega­cy of mys­tique and in­trigue.