Mon­day morn­ing ar­rives, and this time you are de­ter­mined to get it right. Your work­outs are planned, health­i­er meals are ready, and you promise your­self that noth­ing will knock you off track.

“Lis­ten! A farmer went out to sow: And as he sowed, some seed fell by the way­side, and the birds came and de­voured it” (Mark 4:3-4).

Re­pub­lic Day 2026 is tak­ing on a whole new mean­ing for staff and sup­pli­ers of Xtra Foods Ltd. Over 2,500 peo­ple have reg­is­tered for the com­pa­ny’s 5K on Sep­tem­ber 24, with pro­ceeds go­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Can­cer So­ci­ety.

Vis­its to mu­se­ums are an in­evitable part of the ex­pe­ri­ence of the trav­eller with an en­quir­ing mind. To sleep in a mu­se­um sounds a bit much, but the Casa Dos Frades, the for­mer Fran­cis­can Fri­ary, was con­vert­ed in­to a ho­tel with such taste and imag­i­na­tion that no trav­eller in his or her right mind could pos­si­bly have been dis­en­chant­ed with it.

Jer­mal “Jer­nol” Cal­len­der is thrilled af­ter his song Prob­lem Mak­ers helped a steel­band earn the 2026 UK Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Band ti­tle.

Vet­eri­nar­i­ans are see­ing it again: a rise in con­firmed ca­nine dis­tem­per cas­es across the coun­try, along with no­table cas­es of dogs show­ing signs very much con­sis­tent with the dis­ease. This is an im­por­tant re­minder that one of the most se­ri­ous dis­eases is still out there, and vac­ci­na­tion mat­ters.

Col­leagues and friends of the late re­tired po­lice­woman Ru­by Lewis say that she paved the way for oth­er women in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice to fol­low, not­ing that her con­tri­bu­tions to the ser­vice, par­tic­u­lar­ly the for­ma­tion and man­age­ment of ear­ly Po­lice Youth Clubs, are a mod­el fol­lowed to this day.

When Fire­ball isn’t lay­ing down tracks in the stu­dio—he re­cent­ly teamed up with Squeezy Rankin on the sin­gle Go­ril­la Glue—you’ll usu­al­ly catch him in the kitchen, bub­bling up an­oth­er pot for his busi­ness, Firechef Cuisines.

Five-time Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Large Band of the Year, The Lost Tribe, made its de­but at New York Fash­ion Week (NYFW) this month, bring­ing el­e­ments of its 2026 pre­sen­ta­tion, Is­land Cir­cus, to au­di­ences in Man­hat­tan and Brook­lyn.

Sarah Manoo, of Rangi­la Dance Com­pa­ny, was crowned Miss La Reine Rive af­ter win­ning the Best Gown cat­e­go­ry at the Prime Min­is­ter’s Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion gown pre­sen­ta­tion last Sun­day.

Vini­ta Manoo is step­ping in­to the spot­light as Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go 2026, bring­ing a back­ground in in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and cross-cul­tur­al ex­pe­ri­ence to the na­tion­al ti­tle.

From pick­ing up the steel­pan at five to lead­ing his school to a na­tion­al Panora­ma fi­nal as a first-time arranger, Amari Dou­glas is steadi­ly carv­ing out his place among To­ba­go’s emerg­ing young mu­si­cians. The 18-year-old has been named the 2026 re­cip­i­ent of the Nevin Roach Award for Ex­cel­lence in Steel­pan, be­com­ing the fifth Bish­op’s High School, To­ba­go, grad­u­ate to re­ceive the ho­n­our.