Known for his in­no­v­a­tive work, Nevin Roach, of Low­lands, To­ba­go, has of­fi­cial­ly com­plet­ed his Mas­ter’s de­gree in IT Man­age­ment from IU In­ter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences, Ger­many.

Grow­ing up in a small, peace­ful vil­lage in cen­tral Trinidad, Can­dice Dookree nev­er imag­ined that her love for the out­doors and nat­ur­al cu­rios­i­ty would one day lead her in­to the world of geospa­tial sci­ence. What be­gan as a child­hood shaped by com­mu­ni­ty and crick­et grad­u­al­ly evolved in­to a deep in­ter­est in how places grow, change, and con­nect. To­day, that jour­ney has po­si­tioned her at the fore­front of re­search that could trans­form how Trinidad and To­ba­go plans its ur­ban fu­ture.

In just 14 months, Frosty Cups Events Artistry has gone from a bold idea to one of Trinidad’s most talked-about pre­mi­um slushie ex­pe­ri­ences, and at the helm is There­sa Noel, the vi­sion­ary founder who is re­defin­ing cre­ative event re­fresh­ment.

Dr An­jani Ganase has spent most of this year on the is­land of To­ba­go—div­ing off its reefs to re­search the state of its corals. Her pre­lim­i­nary find­ings sug­gest trou­bling news for To­ba­go’s coral reefs.

Trinidad and To­ba­go–born aca­d­e­m­ic Dr Michael Khan played an in­te­gral role in “a per­fect start to the Fall Con­vo­ca­tion at Saint Mary’s Uni­ver­si­ty,” where he was of­fi­cial­ly in­stalled as the in­sti­tu­tion’s 35th Pres­i­dent and Vice-Chan­cel­lor. The uni­ver­si­ty, lo­cat­ed in Hal­i­fax’s South End in No­va Sco­tia, Cana­da, ap­point­ed Dr Khan on Ju­ly 1. He was for­mal­ly sworn in and took his oath of of­fice on No­vem­ber 13, dur­ing a Con­vo­ca­tion Cer­e­mo­ny.

As a woman in the church, Ak­i­lah Hold­er has con­sis­tent­ly spo­ken out on so­cial is­sues where many Chris­t­ian lead­ers—pre­dom­i­nant­ly male—have re­mained silent. Over the years, she has found her­self, of­ten un­ex­pect­ed­ly, at the fore­front of con­ver­sa­tions that many with­in the church have hes­i­tat­ed to con­front.

The Christ­mas spir­it was in full swing when stu­dents of Vista­bel­la Pres­by­ter­ian School took to the stage at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts re­cent­ly with their heart­warm­ing pro­duc­tion of “For God So Loved the World.”

In the qui­et, wind­ing stretch of Guayagua­yare Road, where co­conut trees cast shad­ows over child­hood dreams, a young girl once danced bare­foot in her yard—un­aware that her pas­sion for move­ment and her love for chil­dren would one day rip­ple across class­rooms, com­mu­ni­ties and Caribbean stages. To­day, that girl is Nel­isha “Ny­la” Mo­hammed, new­ly named TTUTA Young Teacher of the Year 2025 for the South East­ern Dis­trict, and a ris­ing force in ed­u­ca­tion and cul­ture.

Cre­ative di­rec­tor of Co­co Vel­vet In­ter­na­tion­al Fash­ion & Mod­el Man­age­ment, Christo­pher Nathan, has spent a great deal of his ca­reer train­ing and de­vel­op­ing young, pro­fes­sion­al fash­ion mod­els for in­ter­na­tion­al place­ment. And even as he lies par­a­lyzed in a bed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, his thoughts still go out to his “chil­dren,” whom he said may be wor­ried that he has not been in con­tact with them in sev­er­al days.

The Bent­ley Pot­ter School of Dance, to­geth­er with the Cas­cade Fes­ti­val Bal­let, pre­sent­ed “The Mag­i­cal World of Oz and the Rhythm With­in” on No­vem­ber 22 and 23 at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.

Japan­ese singers Aaayah (Ayako Hi­raya­ma) and Ann G (An­gel­la Gius­ti­ni) have joined forces on a new crossover sin­gle, Wasabi Wine—an up-tem­po dance track fea­tur­ing a play­ful blend of Japan­ese and Eng­lish lyrics.

On Sat­ur­day night, The En­chant­ed Book­shop leapt off the page and on­to the stage at Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do, in a mag­i­cal pro­duc­tion pre­sent­ed by the Na­tive Caribbean Foun­da­tion, found­ed by Mar­lon and Jenif­fer Es­pinoza.