Goa­to­ber, the an­nu­al “Fes­ti­val of Goat” is back to ex­cite food lovers for yet an­oth­er year.

Oc­to­ber 11, 2026, the world ob­serves the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of the Girl Child un­der the ur­gent and pow­er­ful theme: “End child mar­riage and in­vest in girls’ rights!” The day serves as a vi­tal glob­al plat­form to raise aware­ness about the unique chal­lenges girls face, from gen­der-based vi­o­lence and cli­mate vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to a lack of ac­cess to ed­u­ca­tion. Yet, it is al­so a day to cham­pi­on their em­pow­er­ment and cel­e­brate the bound­less po­ten­tial that blooms when a girl’s rights are pro­tect­ed and her am­bi­tions nur­tured.

Six tal­ent­ed young girls will grace the stage on Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 17, as they com­pete for the ti­tle of Lit­tle Miss Pleas­antville Queen 2026 at the Pleas­antville Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

From a full Trin­bag­on­ian meal to Eng­lish, Asian and oth­er types in be­tween, meals can be made from scratch at Serendip­itea cof­fee shop and tea house in St Au­gus­tine.

Have you ever seen a car dri­ving down the road where one door or fend­er is just a slight­ly dif­fer­ent shade than the rest of the body? It is a glar­ing eye­sore that im­me­di­ate­ly screams, “This car was in an ac­ci­dent!” When you take your car in for body­work and paint­ing, you ex­pect it to come back look­ing fac­to­ry new. But achiev­ing a flaw­less, in­vis­i­ble re­pair is ac­tu­al­ly a mas­sive sci­en­tif­ic chal­lenge.

Through­out Oc­to­ber, WE Life & Cul­ture will share the sto­ries of breast can­cer sur­vivors, pa­tients, care­givers and oth­ers on the front­line of the fight against the dis­ease. Through their ex­pe­ri­ences, we hope to raise aware­ness, en­cour­age ear­ly de­tec­tion and re­mind our read­ers of the im­por­tance of sup­port, strength and hope.

Oc­to­ber 10 and Oc­to­ber 12 are aus­pi­cious days for the Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ty in this coun­try.

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child; I un­der­stood as a child; I thought as a child, but when I be­came a man, I put away child­ish things.  For now we see through a glass, dark­ly, but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as al­so I am known.  And now abideth faith, hope, and char­i­ty, these three; but the great­est of these is char­i­ty."

Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School marked its 50th an­niver­sary with a tea par­ty and fash­ion show, “Blush­es of El­e­gance”, at the Petrotrin Staff Club in Pointe-à-Pierre on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 26.

Ba­cano Book­shop’s new St Au­gus­tine lo­ca­tion along the East­ern Main Road is as much a con­ven­tion­al out­let fea­tur­ing low-cost used books as it is an oa­sis of cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ty. It re­cent­ly moved there from its long-stand­ing Ari­ma lo­ca­tion.

For Nadeira Khan, the pres­sure placed on chil­dren by aca­d­e­mics has be­come a grow­ing con­cern, with young stu­dents ex­pe­ri­enc­ing stress from an ear­ly age.

Lo­cal artist Marin­na Sha­reef gave mem­bers of the pub­lic a peek in­side her mind at her re­cent ex­hi­bi­tion, Po­lar Mythol­o­gy. Through im­mer­sive art­work, she show­cased what it is like to live with and nav­i­gate bipo­lar dis­or­der.