Bi­lat­er­al trade be­tween T&T and Chi­na has topped US$1 bil­lion for the fourth con­sec­u­tive year, plac­ing the part­ner­ship among the most ro­bust in the Caribbean.

T&T’s na­tion­al flag was proud­ly fea­tured in Hom­e­na­je a Lati­noaméri­ca, a vi­brant trib­ute to Latin Amer­i­ca pre­sent­ed by the Chilean Folk­loric Dance Com­pa­ny—An­tuma­pu—at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, on Sep­tem­ber 30.

Two decades af­ter he first carved out a name for him­self on the Panora­ma stage, leg­endary steel­pan arranger Du­vonne Stew­art has come full cir­cle, re­turn­ing to the band that be­lieved in him at the start of his ca­reer—Courts Sound Spe­cial­ists of Laven­tille.

When Joshua Singh, a 27-year-old pas­try chef from Diego Mar­tin, stepped on­to the stage at the Caribbean Bak­ing Awards 2025—Ul­ti­mate Bake Off Com­pe­ti­tion in the British Vir­gin Is­lands ear­li­er this year, he car­ried more than just tools and in­gre­di­ents. He car­ried the dreams of a young man who turned loss in­to pur­pose, chal­lenges in­to mo­ti­va­tion, and hum­ble be­gin­nings in­to re­gion­al vic­to­ry.

Fiona Branker is a cer­ti­fied women’s fit­ness train­er with more than 15 years of ex­pe­ri­ence. As a cer­ti­fied nu­tri­tion and weight man­age­ment coach, work­outs are part of her dai­ly rou­tine. But when she be­gan ex­pe­ri­enc­ing heart pal­pi­ta­tions dur­ing one ses­sion, she knew some­thing was wrong.

Brigette Joseph knew she want­ed to be a chef long be­fore she re­ceived her CXC re­sults at Holy Name Con­vent. While her class­mates were con­sid­er­ing next steps to uni­ver­si­ty, Brigette was fo­cused on the culi­nary arts.

Once up­on a time, the idea of pre­vent­ing breast can­cer would have sound­ed like a fan­ta­sy. In fact, many peo­ple still be­lieve it is not pos­si­ble. But the truth is, we can. Over the last decade, sig­nif­i­cant re­search has shown not on­ly that breast can­cer can be cured, but that it can al­so be pre­vent­ed.

Five years may not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but for breast can­cer sur­vivor Sade Weekes, it could very well have been a life­time filled with many changes–some bad, but some not so bad.

My name is NICOLE DRAY­TON. I’m a proud Trinida­di­an, a daugh­ter, a sis­ter, a friend—and now, a breast can­cer sur­vivor.

When Lisa Agard as­sumed the role of pres­i­dent of the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Fo­rum of Trinidad and To­ba­go (IWFTT) on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 5, 2025, she brought with her a ca­reer de­fined by trail­blaz­ing lead­er­ship, re­silience, and vi­sion. With over 27 years of ex­pe­ri­ence across telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, me­dia, and law, Agard em­bod­ies the very spir­it of the or­gan­i­sa­tion she now leads–one com­mit­ted to ad­vanc­ing ex­em­plary lead­er­ship and cham­pi­oning equal­i­ty for women in T&T and be­yond.

The first in a se­ries on African women writ­ers whose lives and work re­shaped the con­ti­nent’s lit­er­a­ture.

Tu­na­puna Tipi­ca was on hand to pro­vide in­struc­tion un­der the di­rec­tion of young steel­pan phe­nom Den­zell Headley, as some of the na­tion’s lead­ing school bands dis­played the dis­ci­pline, en­er­gy, and cre­ativ­i­ty that con­tin­ue to de­fine the na­tion­al in­stru­ment.