The uni­ver­si­ty’s Goth­ic arch­es and carved stone tow­ers—17th cen­tu­ry and 20th min­gling seam­less­ly — were lit by lacy, tree-fil­tered sun­light in the ear­ly au­tumn light, of­fer­ing a sanc­tu­ary in an in­creas­ing­ly po­larised Amer­i­ca.

For years, Dr Nadya Wat­son has been a steady, com­pas­sion­ate pres­ence for pa­tients fac­ing life’s most dif­fi­cult mo­ments. As a pal­lia­tive care physi­cian, she built her ca­reer on of­fer­ing com­fort, dig­ni­ty, and un­der­stand­ing when they were need­ed most.

To help raise funds for the 16 so­cial min­istries run by the Liv­ing Wa­ter Com­mu­ni­ty, the cor­po­rate sec­tor and top lo­cal chefs, artists, de­sign­ers and en­ter­tain­ers, in part­ner­ship with the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre and Bri­an Mac Far­lane, came to­geth­er un­der the theme “The Joy of Our Na­tion” on Au­gust 30.

Ro­tary T&T is bring­ing back its sig­na­ture fundrais­er, Hats & Heels, for a sec­ond daz­zling edi­tion to­mor­row at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad. The styl­ish af­ter­noon af­fair runs from 3–6 pm (doors open at 2 pm) and co­in­cides with the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of Peace, un­der­scor­ing Ro­tary’s com­mit­ment to build­ing a more com­pas­sion­ate and in­clu­sive world.

Pa­trons of WAND’s Den­im & Di­a­monds fundrais­er held at VICE night­club on Sep­tem­ber 13 were treat­ed to an un­for­get­table evening filled with non-stop en­ter­tain­ment, en­er­gy, and ex­cite­ment.

Some of the na­tion’s top ju­nior steel­bands will con­verge on the grounds of San Juan North Sec­ondary School on Sep­tem­ber 27 for a Youth Steel­pan Jam­boree de­scribed by the school’s Mu­sic De­part­ment as “a plat­form for emerg­ing steel­pan mu­si­cians.”

On Au­gust 27, the in­ti­mate stage at Kafe Blue pulsed with the adage “Mu­sic is Love,” as ten dis­tin­guished mu­si­cians gath­ered for Pan by Storm, a stir­ring trib­ute to the late Ken “Pro­fes­sor” Philmore. The evening be­came both a cel­e­bra­tion of his mu­sic and a re­minder of his tow­er­ing lega­cy in the steel­pan world.

Last week­end, the stage at Queen’s Hall be­came a can­vas for some of the most press­ing strug­gles fac­ing young peo­ple to­day.

Caribbean cin­e­ma that wres­tles with mem­o­ry,re­sis­tance, self­hood, and eco­log­i­cal stew­ard­ship will head­line the 2025 Trinidad+To­ba­go Film Fes­ti­val (TTFF).

In a warm ges­ture, Mex­i­can Am­bas­sador Hugo Morales has ex­tend­ed an open in­vi­ta­tion to na­tion­als of T&T to vis­it Mex­i­co for the 2026 FI­FA World Cup.

Grow­ing up in a close-knit Tri­ni fam­i­ly, food was al­ways a cen­ter­ing life force for Abi­gail Bod­ing­ton. One of many chil­dren, Bod­ing­ton re­mem­bers an up­bring­ing “full of en­er­gy, love and lots of home-cooked meals”.

Stacey-Ann Noel is rewrit­ing what re­silience looks like. Di­ag­nosed with lu­pus at just 27, she is de­ter­mined not to let the chron­ic ill­ness de­fine her. She finds ways to bal­ance her flare-ups and re­main pos­i­tive, heal­ing with med­i­ta­tion and mu­sic, and draw­ing strength from her bond with her pets and her sis­ters.