Ni­dia An­drews—a name well known in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s women’s crick­et fra­ter­ni­ty—is now earn­ing the ad­mi­ra­tion and re­spect of the Guyanese peo­ple. Two years ago, a trip to Guyana to play crick­et changed every­thing for her.

“A li­on is stronger than a man, but it does not en­able him to dom­i­nate the hu­man race. You have ne­glect­ed the du­ty you owe to your­selves, and you have lost your nat­ur­al rights by shut­ting your eyes to your own in­ter­ests.”—Sul­tana’s Dream, 1905

Nadra Su­per­sad is an artist, an avid cook, and a lover of a good lime. At 51 years old, Su­per­sad, who re­sides in Cara­pichaima with her fam­i­ly, re­fus­es to be de­fined by her can­cer di­ag­no­sis, and in fact is a liv­ing con­tra­dic­tion to the gen­er­al ex­pec­ta­tions of can­cer pa­tients.

When sev­en-year-old Adam Bartholomew sat be­side his grand­moth­er at the pi­ano for his first les­son, he had no idea that mu­sic and the steel­pan in par­tic­u­lar would one day car­ry him to the halls of Har­vard and Berklee Col­lege of Mu­sic.

June is ob­served in the Unit­ed States as Caribbean-Amer­i­can Her­itage Month, recog­nis­ing Amer­i­cans of Caribbean de­scent and cel­e­brat­ing Caribbean uni­ty, cul­tur­al pride, and aca­d­e­m­ic ex­cel­lence. This year marked the 19th an­nu­al ob­ser­vance na­tion­wide, while the Kings Coun­ty (Brook­lyn) courts host­ed their third an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion on the af­ter­noon of June 27 at the Ju­ry As­sem­bly Room of the Kings Coun­ty Supreme Court (Crim­i­nal Term).

T he stage is set for one of the most dy­nam­ic Toron­to Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tions yet on Au­gust 1, fol­low­ing of­fi­cial con­fir­ma­tion that the On­tario Steel­band As­so­ci­a­tion (OSA) has, for the first time, part­nered with Pan Trin­ba­go Inc. The an­nu­al com­pe­ti­tion, which be­gan in 2003, will mark a his­toric chap­ter in Cana­da’s steel­pan land­scape.

The steel­pan—of­ten hailed as God’s gift to the world—con­tin­ues to prove it­self might­i­er than the sword. Its ini­tial tri­umph came at the T&T Mu­sic Film Fes­ti­val (TTMFF) 2023, where a doc­u­men­tary cel­e­brat­ing the icon­ic Panazz Play­ers not on­ly be­came a his­toric fes­ti­val fea­ture but al­so won the Peo­ple’s Choice Award.

Twen­ty years in the ad­ver­tis­ing in­dus­try is no small feat. Yet BUZZ, a home­grown cre­ative agency, has not on­ly sur­vived but thrived—two decades deep in­to cre­ative hus­tle, strate­gic piv­ots, wild briefs, all-nighters, and count­less tight turn­arounds.

TATIL and the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DATT) of­fi­cial­ly kicked off the 2025 edi­tion of their Sixth Form Sum­mer In­tern­ship Pro­gramme with an ori­en­ta­tion on June 28 at DATT’s of­fice in Ch­agua­nas.

Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute (WAND) host­ed its first Bub­bles and Benev­o­lence Tea on June 5 to a sold-out au­di­ence of loy­al sup­port­ers, af­fec­tion­ate­ly known as “WANDIES.”

To­day, the Caribbean and the wider mu­si­cal world cel­e­brate a his­toric mile­stone, as The Mighty Spar­row (Slinger Fran­cis­co) marks his 90th birth­day.

The CEO of a civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tion, a chair­man of an NGO, and the leader of a woman em­pow­er­ment body com­prise the pan­el of judges who will be re­view­ing nom­i­nees for the T&T leg of the Un­sung He­roes awards.