The beau­ty of Odis­si, the old­est sur­viv­ing clas­si­cal dance of In­dia, was on full dis­play in Arpanam, a pro­duc­tion by San­dra Sookdeo’s Kala Mandir at the Na­pari­ma Bowl, San Fer­nan­do.

A Colom­bian film crew vis­it­ed T&T from June 16 to 24 as part of their Afro­di­as­po­ra Cui­sine In­ves­ti­ga­tion Project to in­ves­ti­gate and ex­plore con­nec­tions across the African di­as­po­ra through food.

YU­MA Vibe set the tem­per­a­ture for an­oth­er Car­ni­val sea­son with their pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2026 theme Luxe: A Lav­ish Es­cape, at the Port-of-Spain In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front on Sat­ur­day evening.

Res­i­dents decked out in their Sun­day best en­joy­ing a stroll along the main street in front of what could eas­i­ly be the main com­mu­ni­ty hall ma­jes­ti­cal­ly stand­ing out from the oth­er build­ings - it is a sig­na­ture scene of lo­cal art, but one with James “Jim” Arm­strong’s own spe­cial in­ter­pre­ta­tion, which he has termed as “in­dige­nous im­pres­sion­ism.”

The ques­tion that many par­ents of young and ac­tive chil­dren have to con­sid­er is how ear­ly to in­volve them in sports, and what sports to in­volve them in. The ques­tion be­comes more acute as the long school hol­i­day break ap­proach­es. That pe­ri­od, in ex­cess of two months, isn’t go­ing to be tak­en up by hol­i­days. Par­ents have to find some ac­tiv­i­ty.

World-renowned tabla mae­stro Nishikant Bar­o­dekar de­liv­ered a pow­er­ful and emo­tion­al­ly charged per­for­mance on June 20 at the Lax­mi Narayan Tem­ple in Freeport, cap­ti­vat­ing a packed au­di­ence with his rhyth­mic bril­liance and deep mas­tery of clas­si­cal In­di­an per­cus­sion.

In T&T the French Em­bassy and Al­liance Fran­caise part­nered with Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne to cel­e­brate the 111th an­niver­sary with an evening filled with live per­for­mances of mu­sic and danc­ing.

Hav­ing spent 30 years in jour­nal­ism, See­ta Per­sad’s name is syn­ony­mous with writ­ing in this coun­try. How­ev­er, since re­tir­ing in 2019, she’s stepped bold­ly back in­to the spot­light, not for fame, but to nur­ture the next gen­er­a­tion of sto­ry­tellers through the­atre.

If younger gen­er­a­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go have nev­er heard the beau­ti­ful sto­ries or ful­ly ex­pe­ri­enced the rich, vi­brant cul­tures of their par­ents’ or an­ces­tors’ moth­er­land, In­di­ra Ram­garib-Kat­wa­roo is chang­ing that—one un­for­get­table tour at a time.

This week’s Book­shelf sets fic­tion aside to en­gage with fact. These are the sto­ries of women who are no longer here to tell them. In the Caribbean like every­where else vi­o­lence be­gins at home, be­hind closed doors, in the places meant to of­fer shel­ter. It thrives in si­lence, in what is tol­er­at­ed.

When Rachel Welch-Phillips walked across the stage on June 17 in New York City to ac­cept the Ris­ing Star In-House Coun­sel of the Year award, she didn’t just rep­re­sent her­self—she rep­re­sent­ed an en­tire re­gion.

On any giv­en day, you might find Dr Ra­ji­ni Haraks­ingh walk­ing briskly through the cam­pus of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) in St Au­gus­tine, where she serves as a lec­tur­er in Biotech­nol­o­gy.