Sto­ry­tellers Paul Keens-Dou­glas and Aun­tie Thea will be ho­n­oured at the spe­cial cul­mi­na­tion of the two-month Sea­son of Anan­si Folk­lore Fes­ti­val on Thurs­day.

A No­ble Cel­e­bra­tion at Queen’s Hall on May 17 and 18 was not on­ly a trib­ute in dance to an out­stand­ing dancer and chore­o­g­ra­ph­er but a cel­e­bra­tion of two ma­jor mile­stones: the 50th an­niver­sary of Lil­liput Chil­dren’s The­atre and the 40th an­niver­sary of the No­ble Dou­glas Dance Com­pa­ny Inc (ND­DC).

A Cen­tral Bank con­cert ho­n­ours the woman who shaped our na­tion­al sound, led by Ed­ward Cum­ber­batch and Theron Shaw.

Af­ter chas­ing the il­lu­sion of a fairy tale for some 13 years, Sreshtha Tewari fi­nal­ly filed for di­vorce. It was a very painful and dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion for Tewari, who was brought up in a Hin­du home—where mar­riage is con­sid­ered a ma­jor mile­stone in the cul­ture. That di­vorce led her to ther­a­py ses­sions, which she de­scribed as the best in­vest­ment in her life.

With a stun­ning rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s finest, re­cent Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ate Cameron Ho­sein has used his tal­ent to pro­mote the coun­try on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. Ho­sein has cre­at­ed a book in his se­nior the­sis project (ac­com­pa­nied by an art in­stal­la­tion) doc­u­ment­ing 72 of T&T’s cre­ative minds in the dance, mu­sic, art, fash­ion and the­atre in­dus­tries whose art has im­pact­ed and trans­formed T&T and has even reached out­side of our bor­ders.

In 1987, a group of women came to­geth­er to es­tab­lish a Hin­du Women’s Or­gan­i­sa­tion (HWO). The pur­pose of the or­gan­i­sa­tion would be a sim­ple one: work to im­prove the sta­tus of women and girls in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

“I eh know how much years I have. I nev­er go to school to read and write and count. But I know how to work.”

From the streets of Trinidad to the dy­nam­ic board­rooms of glob­al For­tune 500 brands, Suzette Wil­son Samuels is a pow­er­house. Her sto­ry is de­fined by cul­ture, courage, and an un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to lift­ing oth­ers.

In No­vem­ber of last year, Ni­Na Young Lead­ers, a grass­roots or­gan­i­sa­tion fo­cused on sup­port­ing and hous­ing vic­tims of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go, was in­vit­ed to a con­fer­ence in South Africa to share its pow­er­ful sto­ry.

Mid­way through her ex­hil­a­rat­ing per­for­mance on May 24, Genisa St Hi­laire, bet­ter known as Nisa, threw off her brown patent leather stilet­to heels, and set aside her African Kente cloth-styled fas­ci­na­tor as the tem­per­a­ture in the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um reached fever pitch.

Founder and di­rec­tor of Tabla Sangam, Pun­dit Karan Ram­sun­dar and his wife Ria are ded­i­cat­ed to pre­serv­ing Shashtriya Sangeet - teach­ing and cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents to per­form and share their tal­ent.

T&T mu­si­cal am­bas­sadors, Preedy, Su­cre, Turn­er, Melick, Ravi B, Joshua Re­grel­lo, KMC, La­dy La­va and oth­ers are set to grace the stage at the One Caribbean Uni­ty Mu­sic Fes­ti­val this com­ing week­end. They are all ex­cit­ed to be a part of the cast of this his­toric event. Speak­ing to Over­time Me­dia over the week­end, the 2025