The Sco­tia­bank Foun­da­tion and Unit­ed Way T&T (UWTT) have joined forces once again to make do­na­tions of steel­pans to schools, help­ing to pro­mote steel­pan ed­u­ca­tion amongst the youth of T&T and en­abling youth to con­nect with and pre­serve the rich cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty and tra­di­tions of our coun­try.

Show­man­ship and pageantry filled the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah’s North Stand on Sat­ur­day night when the Tribe group of brands un­veiled their 2026 cos­tumes, blend­ing a time-ho­n­oured spec­ta­cle with bold, mod­ern Tri­ni flare.

The pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Parang As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (NPATT), Ali­cia Jag­gasar has made a strong call for the sur­vival, re­vival, and preser­va­tion of the His­pan­ic art­form.

The 17th An­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Charles Town Ma­roon Con­fer­ence & Fes­ti­val in Ja­maica, held from June 20 to 23, blend­ed cel­e­bra­tion with se­ri­ous di­a­logue on in­dige­nous land and cul­tur­al rights.

Four weeks be­fore Jamie Sabeeney was due to grad­u­ate in 2023, she re­ceived the most dev­as­tat­ing news of her life. The usu­al emo­tions that come with com­plet­ing uni­ver­si­ty, those of joy and ac­com­plish­ment, were over­shad­owed by a stage 2B Hodgkin’s lym­phoma di­ag­no­sis. It up­end­ed her en­tire world.

For more than 15 years, Sher­ron Har­ford has im­mersed her­self in the fight against do­mes­tic vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Her work with shel­ters, her role in key or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the Coali­tion Against Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence, The Shel­ter, and the Al­liance for State Ac­tion to End Gen­der-Based Vi­o­lence, and her ad­vo­ca­cy have helped sup­port count­less sur­vivors.

Jonathan Cum­ber­batch ex­pert­ly blends a cor­po­rate ca­reer in hu­man re­source man­age­ment with a deep pas­sion for po­et­ry and art.

From be­ing born and raised in Trinidad and To­ba­go to mak­ing waves in the buzzing bor­ough of Brook­lyn, La­toya Lovell has stirred her dreams in­to a pot of Caribbean flavours and poured them straight in­to the heart of New York.

With that sin­gle lyric in her de­but song, Dr Kar­ri­an Hep­burn-Mal­colm cap­tures a jour­ney marked by re­silience and qui­et tri­umph. It’s more than a per­son­al tes­ti­mo­ny—it echoes the qui­et bat­tles and vic­to­ries we all know too well and can re­late to.

When your life changes in an in­stant, there’s no warn­ing—just a mo­ment that splits time in­to be­fore and af­ter. For me, NICOLE DRAY­TON, it hap­pened in a bath­room on a qui­et Sun­day morn­ing. This is my jour­ney through breast can­cer, which I am shar­ing in parts: raw, un­fil­tered, and root­ed in faith. It’s not just a sto­ry about di­ag­no­sis—it’s about strength, fear, iso­la­tion, small mir­a­cles, and the pow­er of com­mu­ni­ty.

Michael Phillips is tru­ly re­defin­ing what it means to be a mul­ti-hy­phen­ate cre­ative force. With Tai­lor-Made For Me, he’s not just dip­ping a toe in­to mu­sic—he’s div­ing in with a bold fu­sion of Caribbean and coun­try sounds that’s turn­ing heads across T&T.

In stay­ing true to their mis­sion of giv­ing fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to fam­i­lies for med­ical and ed­u­ca­tion­al needs, The Said­wan Foun­da­tion has do­nat­ed $60,000 to­wards ed­u­ca­tion­al needs, and $60,000 in 2025 to the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T.