“Ex­pres­sions, colours, mu­sic, fes­ti­vals, hu­mour and food, all in­flu­enced by Caribbean, African, In­di­an and Eu­ro­pean tra­di­tions, cre­ate flavours and de­signs that are tru­ly unique to Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T),” as­sert­ed Shelly-Ann Lovell, culi­nary ed­u­ca­tor and en­tre­pre­neur from East Trinidad.

Have you no­ticed that the out­fit you begged your par­ents to buy as a teenag­er, the one still sit­ting at the back of your clos­et, slight­ly fad­ed but some­how hold­ing its shape, is mak­ing a full-blown come­back? In the fash­ion world, ex­perts will ad­mit that yes­ter­day’s pieces of­ten be­come to­mor­row’s must-haves.

A chance meet­ing be­tween a mu­si­cian and a vo­cal­ist at a pop­u­lar live en­ter­tain­ment hub in Port-of-Spain re­sult­ed in a mu­sic lover’s dream—a free show on Au­gust 12, where jazz, soul, R&B, Caribbean in­flu­ences and time­less clas­sics formed a mu­si­cal ta­pes­try through sto­ry­telling and au­di­ence in­ter­ac­tion.

Great his­to­ry was made for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Afro-Trinida­di­an com­mu­ni­ty with the in­au­gur­al Miss Afro T&T 2026 pageant.

Oil and gas pro­fes­sion­al Ken Gary Tay­lor, 43, was al­ways re­gard­ed as a nor­mal child and young adult. As he ma­tured, he found a safe and in­trigu­ing space in the en­er­gy sec­tor, where pre­ci­sion, safe­ty and en­gi­neer­ing ex­cel­lence drove and shaped his ca­reer for more than 25 years.

On Eman­ci­pa­tion Day, Port-of-Spain was trans­formed in­to a cel­e­bra­tion of African her­itage, as rev­el­ers turned out in fash­ion­able at­tire, while the mu­sic re­flect­ed strong African and eth­nic in­flu­ences.

The life and work of late Trinida­di­an fash­ion pho­tog­ra­ph­er Calvin French were cel­e­brat­ed on Ju­ly 26 with the launch of a com­mem­o­ra­tive pho­tog­ra­phy book chron­i­cling his con­tri­bu­tion to the lo­cal fash­ion and cre­ative in­dus­tries.

Hy­per­ten­sion re­mains one of the ma­jor health chal­lenges fac­ing com­mu­ni­ties world­wide, of­ten de­vel­op­ing with­out ob­vi­ous symp­toms un­til se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tions oc­cur.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try is buzzing af­ter the Caribbean Mu­sic Awards an­nounced that its 2026 cer­e­mo­ny will move from the Unit­ed States to the Caribbean, with T&T cho­sen as its first re­gion­al host.

Mul­ti-Kid­dies Car­ni­val Band of the Year and reign­ing first-place hat-trick Red Cross and St James Car­ni­val win­ner, Jam­Jay Kids Pro­duc­tions (JKP), will be bring­ing its cre­ative heat once again next year with its pre­sen­ta­tion, Ole Mas New Show: The Jam­Jay Spec­ta­cle.

At 19, Chris­t­ian Ro­hit Samuel is al­ready mov­ing be­tween two worlds—com­put­er sci­ence and the per­form­ing arts.

A new mas band is prepar­ing to en­ter the streets of Port-of-Spain for Car­ni­val 2027, promis­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion that blends tra­di­tion­al char­ac­ters and aes­thet­ics with con­tem­po­rary fash­ion and de­sign.