They live in fam­i­ly kitchens where recipes are mem­o­rised rather than writ­ten down. Around din­ing ta­bles where sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions gath­er for Christ­mas. In the laugh­ter be­tween sis­ters and cousins. In the women who hold fam­i­lies to­geth­er while car­ry­ing tra­di­tions, his­to­ries and ex­pec­ta­tions that are rarely ac­knowl­edged be­yond their own com­mu­ni­ties.

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.

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.

“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.

A cel­e­bra­tion of free­dom, his­to­ry and African cul­tur­al ex­pres­sion un­fold­ed Au­gust 5, with a pro­gramme com­bin­ing the­atre and mu­sic to mark the lega­cy of Eman­ci­pa­tion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.