In­side the walls of the Car­rera Con­vict Prison, where he was serv­ing a five-year sen­tence af­ter be­com­ing in­volved in crime, an­oth­er pris­on­er told him: “Don’t make no buck­et jail.”

On the is­land of Cha­cachacare, Trinidad’s most west­er­ly gem, lies a nat­ur­al won­der: a hy­per-saline in­land pond.

If you love keep­ing your car look­ing pris­tine, you have like­ly heard the mas­sive buzz around “ce­ram­ic coat­ing.” Mar­ket­ed as the ul­ti­mate shield for your ve­hi­cle’s paint, it is a liq­uid poly­mer ap­plied to the ex­te­ri­or that chem­i­cal­ly bonds with the fac­to­ry clear coat. But is it tru­ly the mir­a­cle prod­uct it is claimed to be, or are there hid­den com­pli­ca­tions you should know about?

To­day is the day all foot­ball diehards have been wait­ing for: the 2026 FI­FA World Cup fi­nal. When the start­ing whis­tle blows at 3pm at MetLife Sta­di­um, New Jer­sey, south Trinidad na­tive Nicholas Mike will be among the crowd, hold­ing his breath as his team, Ar­genti­na, vies for a sec­ond ti­tle against Spain.

Trinidad-born, At­lanta-based nat­ur­al hair­styl­ist Kim­ber­ly James works mag­ic with her hands—and we’re “hair” for it!

Ameer­ah Ho­sein is plead­ing with every­one to treat oth­ers, as well as the Earth, with more re­spect and kind­ness. The 19-year-old’s lat­est short sto­ry, ti­tled To­day’s World, tack­les top­ics in­clud­ing pol­lu­tion, war, race and gen­der sep­a­ra­tion. Ul­ti­mate­ly, she wants read­ers to un­der­stand that a lit­tle change can go a long way.

There are 3 main types of di­a­betes, and as a whole, this chron­ic dis­ease af­fects so many peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Many peo­ple be­lieve that di­a­betes is per­ma­nent, and I am here to clar­i­fy the re­al­i­ty of this thought be­cause it is more nu­anced than we think. The truth is that type 2 and ges­ta­tion­al di­a­betes can be re­versed, but type 1 can be bet­ter man­aged with lifestyle changes. It’s bet­ter to un­der­stand the types and what op­tions you have to make a more in­formed de­ci­sion about your health.

Ar­chi­tect Bri­an Lewis is stag­ing his fi­nal pho­to­graph­ic ex­hi­bi­tion, Last Light, at Medul­la Art Gallery.

His work can be found in front of shops, on util­i­ty poles and along busy roads. Yet few know the man be­hind some of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most recog­nis­able hand-paint­ed signs.

Thou­sands of stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cent­ly cel­e­brat­ed their SEA re­sults and are cur­rent­ly prepar­ing for the Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion, even as the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment (MC­CD) is invit­ing them to chan­nel their en­er­gy, cre­ativ­i­ty and tal­ents in­to one of the coun­try’s most re­spect­ed cul­tur­al pro­grammes.

At a time when anx­i­ety, so­cial me­dia val­i­da­tion and the pres­sure to con­form are shap­ing an en­tire gen­er­a­tion, Ja­maican gospel pow­er­house Kevin Down­swell be­lieves the Caribbean des­per­ate­ly needs to re­dis­cov­er some­thing far more valu­able than pop­u­lar­i­ty—iden­ti­ty.

Leg­ends, myths and the un­mis­tak­able en­er­gy of Car­ni­val took cen­tre stage as Spir­it Mas un­veiled its pre­sen­ta­tion for Car­ni­val 2027.