Dis­tance has done lit­tle to dull Nicholas Hug­gins’ con­nec­tion to home. Al­though the 36-year-old Cre­ative Di­rec­tor has spent the last three months, 4,400 miles away in the UK, he has kept his fo­cus firm­ly on Trinidad through a 30-day Street View chal­lenge.

The hid­den truth of our lives is of­ten framed as a de­c­la­ra­tion to leave the past in the past, but this was not the case for An­cil Rooplal, a Vi­su­al Arts Sec­ondary School art teacher who used the can­vas to un­earth his past.

Those were the words on Brice D. Vick’s mind as he wrapped up teach­ing a three-hour mas­ter­class at Xtreme Dance Acad­e­my (XDA) in St James last Fri­day.

This comedic fact was shared by reign­ing Ca­lyp­so Monarch Ter­ri Lyons as she beamed with moth­er­ly pride. She was not talk­ing about a ri­val ca­lyp­son­ian, but rather the bright­est and newest star in her house­hold — her son, Math­ias Supreme Lyons For­tune.

At 25 years old, Sherisse Khan is emerg­ing as one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most in­flu­en­tial young cul­tur­al voic­es, us­ing mu­sic, lead­er­ship and per­for­mance to con­nect gen­er­a­tions and com­mu­ni­ties through cul­ture.

El­e­gance, glam­our and celebri­ty sparkle filled Achie­vors Ban­quet Hall in San Fer­nan­do on May 16, as the Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion, in part­ner­ship with the Meena House Fine Din­ing Restau­rant, rolled out the red car­pet for its fundrais­ing “Fash­ion­ista” event.

Top Chef 2025 win­ner and Trinida­di­an-Amer­i­can chef Tris­ten Epps-Long is hop­ing to con­tin­ue rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad & To­ba­go’s cui­sine and cul­ture on the glob­al stage.

As Ruth Gob­in bat­tled breast can­cer in her fi­nal days, she wrote down her home cook­ing recipes with the hope that her chil­dren could car­ry on her culi­nary lega­cy.

Re­turn­ing af­ter a day spent in the lush green Cau­ra Val­ley dur­ing our stay with our daugh­ter’s fam­i­ly in Trinidad, we met their friend at the front gate.

Tucked away in the qui­et com­mu­ni­ty of Fe­lic­i­ty, Ch­agua­nas, stands a lit­tle-known Mandir be­lieved by devo­tees to be among the old­est sur­viv­ing Hin­du tem­ples in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Bathed in a soft red glow from the near­by lights, the guides pa­trol the one-kilo­me­tre stretch of sand. Their bod­ies cast long shad­ows in the dim light, their eyes search­ing the pound­ing surf for a head or two pok­ing above the sur­face. Fi­nal­ly, a head pops up, then an­oth­er.

In this first ar­ti­cle in a new se­ries about chil­dren and their health in Trinidad & To­ba­go, the em­pha­sis will be on dis­eases of chil­dren, es­pe­cial­ly the symp­toms of ill­ness and their re­spons­es to ill­ness.