At 23, Sarah (not her re­al name), a for­mer res­i­dent of Raf­fa House, has over­come the odds to grad­u­ate from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the South­ern Caribbean with a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Nurs­ing.

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

“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.

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.

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.

The Trinida­di­an lyric so­pra­no will re­turn to the stage on Sat­ur­day for Sacrae: An Evening of Sa­cred and Spir­i­tu­al Mu­sic, a recital shaped by re­mem­brance, faith and a deeply per­son­al jour­ney back to mu­sic.

He may be known for his mu­sic, but An­dre Al­long, pro­fes­sion­al­ly known as Andy Ven­ture (VEN­CHA), has tak­en on an art form that he be­lieves has el­e­vat­ed him in­to a whole oth­er di­men­sion and stratos­phere that is ‘over your head’.

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.

Long be­fore she was crowned the in­au­gur­al Miss Afro Trinidad and To­ba­go, Delece Ra­bathaly was a lit­tle girl stand­ing be­side her fa­ther at a po­lit­i­cal ral­ly with one sim­ple re­quest.

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.

Jineal Chich­ester was halfway across the At­lantic, stand­ing aboard an air­craft car­ri­er bound for Africa as a young naval of­fi­cer in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, when a sin­gle ques­tion changed the course of her life.