Nes­tled deep with­in Trinidad’s North­ern Range, just a 20-minute dri­ve from the bustling East­ern Main Road, the vil­lage of Lopinot feels like a place where time stands still.

A fre­quent med­ical com­plaint dur­ing the Au­gust hol­i­days is im­peti­go. Im­peti­go is an acute su­per­fi­cial in­fec­tion of the skin caused by bac­te­ria. It’s com­mon­ly called “sores” or “sep­tic spots” in T&T.

When Dr Rishad Seecher­an walked in­to the Min­istry of Health af­ter be­ing ap­point­ed Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health fol­low­ing the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, he made a per­son­al de­ci­sion that would ul­ti­mate­ly trans­form not on­ly his ap­pear­ance but al­so his out­look on pub­lic health.

Late­ly it feels like most of the Sa­hara’s dust has mi­grat­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go. On any giv­en day, a glance out the win­dow re­veals a hazy sky — sig­nalling not rain, but an­oth­er lay­er of it that brings a con­stant strug­gle for al­ler­gy suf­fer­ers and a night­mare for clean cars.

Award-win­ning Mar­cus Bernard was a typ­i­cal school boy who loved both pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools, but was ea­ger to work be­cause he al­ways had an am­bi­tion to grow and try new things. Fol­low­ing grad­u­at­ing in 1972, Bernard wast­ed no time.

On Feb­ru­ary 23, 1925, Kr­ish­na De­onar­ine (who lat­er changed his name to Adri­an Co­la Rien­zi) wrote a let­ter to the ed­i­tor of the Labour Leader, a lo­cal pub­li­ca­tion, in­form­ing the read­er­ship of a mass meet­ing held on Feb­ru­ary 7, at the Ori­en­tal Hall. The pur­pose of the meet­ing was to pass a res­o­lu­tion of protest and to ap­point del­e­gates to con­vey their dis­sat­is­fac­tion to the Gov­er­nor, who failed to ap­point In­di­ans in the nom­i­nat­ed un­of­fi­cial sec­tion of the Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil.

Each year, around the feast of Our La­dy of Mount Carmel, the Care­nage com­mu­ni­ty gath­ers for the an­nu­al bless­ing of the boats and fish­er­men, a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion that com­bines faith with the area’s fish­ing her­itage.

Patrick Au­gus­tus Mervyn Man­ning is T&T’s longest-serv­ing mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, and the mag­ni­tude of his tenure and time in pol­i­tics has left an in­deli­ble mark on the na­tion’s po­lit­i­cal land­scape. Ten years af­ter his pass­ing on Ju­ly 2, 2016, his decades of ser­vice as a states­man and leader re­main deeply wo­ven in­to the very fab­ric of this na­tion’s iden­ti­ty.

Bish­op Anstey Trin­i­ty Col­lege East grad­u­ates pulled out all the fash­ion stops for A Night in Dubai, at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain, on June 22. The young men and women showed up in var­i­ous hues of shim­mer and daz­zle, with cam­eras cap­tur­ing their every move as they made their way from the ho­tel lob­by to the ball­room. There, they ex­cit­ed­ly marked their ex­it from the in­sti­tu­tion at which they had spent the last five years, with din­ner, danc­ing, and lots of post­ing – cre­at­ing once-in-a-life­time mem­o­ries with friends and teach­ers that will fol­low them in­to young adult­hood and be­yond.

Long be­fore there were roads, vil­lages or even the Caribbean is­lands as we know them to­day, peo­ple were liv­ing, hunt­ing and bury­ing their dead on a qui­et patch of land at Ban­wari Trace in San Fran­cique, south­west Trinidad.

Just be­yond the north­west­ern penin­su­la of Trinidad, where the Gulf of Paria meets the Bo­cas del Dragón, Cha­cachacare ris­es from the sea like a frag­ment of an­oth­er time.

It’s a news sto­ry we see too of­ten: A per­son meets up with an­oth­er for the sale of an item ad­ver­tised on­line and gets scammed or robbed. But one lo­cal busi­ness­man rose to the chal­lenge. Quin­cy Richards has now launched Bam­boo Mar­ket­place, an on­line plat­form that en­sures safe fi­nan­cial trans­ac­tions and a se­cure col­lec­tion-based sys­tem.