For the third con­sec­u­tive year, the Geri­atric So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (GSTT) host­ed its an­nu­al Christ­mas Ham­per Dri­ve for the el­der­ly. GSTT vis­it­ed four homes for the aged in Ari­ma and three homes in Tacarigua.

Three-time Chut­ney So­ca Monarch, re­cent­ly ap­point­ed NCC Com­mis­sion­er, and vo­cal­ist with the A Team Band, Im­ran “GI” Per­sad has added an­oth­er ac­co­lade to his port­fo­lio: he has been of­fi­cial­ly signed as a Brand Am­bas­sador by The House of An­gos­tu­ra.

Rum Brunch 2025 trans­formed the Gar­den Sanc­tu­ary in Ma­coya in­to a whim­si­cal es­cape, de­liv­er­ing a well-at­tend­ed lifestyle ex­pe­ri­ence in­spired by the fan­tas­ti­cal world of Al­ice in Won­der­land.

From church pews to cen­tre stage, Su­san­na Sur­jan is emerg­ing as one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most com­pelling new voic­es, her mu­sic shaped by faith, fam­i­ly and an un­shake­able de­sire to up­lift oth­ers. A singer, per­former, ed­u­ca­tor and ra­dio host, Sur­jan’s jour­ney is dri­ven not by fame but by pur­pose—and it is that sin­cer­i­ty which con­tin­ues to res­onate with grow­ing au­di­ences at home and abroad. For Sur­jan, mu­sic has nev­er been mere­ly a per­for­mance.

Glob­al Trinidad and To­ba­go has un­veiled the 16th edi­tion of its dig­i­tal Fash­ion Look­Book, “The Gift of Fash­ion”, show­cas­ing col­lec­tions from 23 emerg­ing and es­tab­lished T&T de­sign­ers. The Look­Book high­lights a wide range of fash­ion, in­clud­ing ready-to-wear, re­sort wear, bridal, cou­ture, jew­ellery, ac­ces­sories, and Car­ni­val, po­si­tion­ing lo­cal de­sign­ers as ex­port-ready tal­ents for both do­mes­tic buy­ers and in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

In 2025, two mem­bers of the Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go qui­et­ly set an ex­tra­or­di­nary ex­am­ple of com­mit­ment to her­itage ed­u­ca­tion. Stel­la Sandy, a re­tiree, and Au­dra Mitchell, a work­ing pro­fes­sion­al, each at­tend­ed 16 Na­tion­al Trust tours over the course of the year—demon­strat­ing how ac­ces­si­ble, well-cu­rat­ed her­itage ex­pe­ri­ences can in­spire sus­tained pub­lic en­gage­ment.

The sounds of mu­sic, laugh­ter, and fes­tive cheer filled the streets of Fe­lic­i­ty, Ch­agua­nas, re­cent­ly when Mu­si­cal Kiss – Fam­i­ly and Friends host­ed its an­nu­al Christ­mas con­cert and movie night, bring­ing chil­dren, fam­i­lies, and res­i­dents to­geth­er for an evening of whole­some com­mu­ni­ty cel­e­bra­tion.

Bird­song’s an­nu­al Christ­mas on Cam­pus con­cert is a favourite of those in­ter­est­ed in a show that of­fers a high-qual­i­ty mu­si­cal ex­pe­ri­ence rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the sea­son. This year up­held such ex­pec­ta­tions.

It took a De­cem­ber 9 trip to the epi­cen­tre of the Oc­to­ber 28 as­sault by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa on Ja­maica to meet one of the is­land’s newest lead­ing mu­si­cal voic­es and ac­tivists for hope and re­ju­ve­na­tion.

Be­tween De­cem­ber 5 and 13, Pan Trin­ba­go en­gaged 45 steel­bands and bands in the Lega­cy Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Con­ven­tion­al Band pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion, judged across the North, East, South/Cen­tral, and To­ba­go re­gions.

An evening of fes­tive mag­ic un­fold­ed on De­cem­ber 9, as stu­dents of Cedar Grove Pri­vate School lit up the stage with their Christ­mas con­cert, “A Christ­mas To Re­mem­ber,” at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA), San Fer­nan­do.

Lead­ers from busi­ness, law, me­dia, pub­lic health, and na­tion­al gov­er­nance gath­ered on De­cem­ber 4 at Fa­nat­ic Kitchen Stu­dio, Mar­aval, to cel­e­brate a ma­jor mile­stone in the ca­reer of com­mu­ni­ca­tions strate­gist Lisa-Ann Joseph, ho­n­our­ing her 18 years as a con­sul­tant and 33 years shap­ing rep­u­ta­tion and cri­sis man­age­ment across the Caribbean.