She start­ed her make-up jour­ney in the ear­ly months of 2011 and con­tin­ued to build her style and tech­niques over the years. The evo­lu­tion of make-up over the years caught her at­ten­tion and sparked her in­ter­est. “I was ac­tu­al­ly on the ca­reer path of be­ing in the cor­po­rate world, but I al­ways say that God called, and I an­swered,” she said.

These time­less lyrics from Bob Mar­ley sparked some­thing deep with­in Teneille Young, a Trinida­di­an singer-song­writer whose jour­ney re­flects the same soul­ful essence.

For more than three decades, Pa­per Based Book­shop has stood as a bea­con of lit­er­ary cul­ture in T&T. Es­tab­lished in 1987 by Joan Day­al, the shop carved a niche as a hub of Caribbean lit­er­a­ture. Day­al’s vi­sion was to cre­ate a sanc­tu­ary for re­gion­al voic­es, al­low­ing au­thors, po­ets, and thinkers to share their sto­ries with an ea­ger au­di­ence. Over time, Pa­per Based be­came more than a book­store—a cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tion, a space for dis­cov­ery, con­ver­sa­tion, and com­mu­ni­ty.

Noah Adisa Rud­der, 21, youngest son of ca­lyp­so icon David Michael Rud­der was re­cent­ly named among 11 Cana­di­an stu­dents award­ed Rhodes Schol­ar­ships to study at Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty next year. A fourth-year stu­dent from Ajax, On­tario, study­ing at Vic­to­ria Col­lege, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, Noah is pur­su­ing a dou­ble ma­jor in Peace, Con­flict and Jus­tice, and Dra­ma.

Ab­dul Ol­livierre is a re­lent­less young in­di­vid­ual who does not let any chal­lenge keep him back as he pur­sues his life and ca­reer goals.

Sto­ry­telling is a skill Trin­bag­o­ni­ans have mas­tered. Be­yond our tal­ent for re­count­ing a good “bac­cha­nal scene,” our lo­cal and Caribbean folk­lore are unique­ly rich, cap­tur­ing dif­fer­ent as­pects of our cul­ture and his­to­ry. But what if we could bring these sto­ries to life—cre­at­ing a state-of-the-art tourist at­trac­tion?

Ver­si d’Amore: A Sym­pho­ny of Ro­mance, brought to­geth­er some of the coun­try’s finest tal­ents for a one-night-on­ly per­for­mance at the Winifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um, Queen’s Hall, on No­vem­ber 2.

In a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone for its tech­ni­cal ed­u­ca­tion pro­gramme, 33 Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC) trainees suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed a four-month au­to me­chan­ics train­ing pro­gramme re­cent­ly.

In Jan­u­ary 2022, 573 artists from 117 coun­tries world­wide ex­hib­it­ed their 707 paint­ings at the 9th Bei­jing In­ter­na­tion­al Art Bi­en­nale at the Na­tion­al Art Mu­se­um of Chi­na (NAMOC).

Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence Aware­ness Month, ob­served every Oc­to­ber, is a pe­ri­od ded­i­cat­ed to rais­ing aware­ness about the preva­lence and im­pact of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence. This month-long cam­paign aims to ed­u­cate the pub­lic about the signs of abuse and the re­sources avail­able to vic­tims. 

When Trinida­di­an jour­nal­ist Patrice Grell-Yur­sik start­ed her hair and beau­ty blog in 2006, so­cial me­dia was still young. YouTube wasn’t the video archiv­ing be­he­moth it is to­day. If you want­ed to learn how to deal with nat­ur­al afro-tex­tured hair, you were head­ing to a blog host­ed on Word­Press or Blog­ger for in­for­ma­tion.

Per­haps it was al­ways her des­tiny to be some­one who saves the en­vi­ron­ment. Long be­fore she got in­to cli­mate change, Ruean­na Haynes was a child who loved watch­ing Cap­tain Plan­et.