Jer­el Ram­sey sought to bring a Caribbean twist to the theme of en­vi­ron­men­tal jus­tice, so he wrote and di­rect­ed Bois — a short film do­ing just that. It was re­cent­ly screened at the Film and Folk­lore Fes­ti­val, and au­di­ences couldn’t get enough of it.

So­cial his­to­ri­an, fem­i­nist schol­ar and Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Gen­der, So­cial Change and De­vel­op­ment at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Rho­da Red­dock, has spent a life­time in­ter­ro­gat­ing the struc­tures that shape Caribbean so­ci­ety. Fram­ing is­sues sur­round­ing pow­er struc­tures caused by race/eth­nic­i­ty, gen­der and class has been a cen­tral fo­cal point of her life’s work, and in this ex­plo­ration, she has be­come one of the re­gion’s most for­mi­da­ble in­tel­lec­tu­al voic­es. From her base in the up­per ech­e­lons of acad­e­mia at the UWI, St Au­gus­tine and through her in­volve­ment in glob­al and lo­cal ac­tivism, she has al­so con­sis­tent­ly chal­lenged the mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion of Caribbean thought with­in glob­al acad­e­mia, in­sist­ing that the re­gion is not pe­riph­er­al but foun­da­tion­al to un­der­stand­ing mod­ern in­equal­i­ties.

At 21, Kar­lene Joseph left Trinidad for New York City to live with her fa­ther. She nev­er had a close re­la­tion­ship with her dad, and this was meant to be their time to bond. He died ten days be­fore she ar­rived. With no time to process her emo­tions, she went straight in­to sur­vival mode.

To­day at the Old Fire Sta­tion in Port-of-Spain, Mar­garet Bus­by, the Ghana­ian-born pub­lish­er, ed­i­tor and writer who has been a cen­tral fig­ure in Black British lit­er­ary life for half a cen­tu­ry, ap­pears in con­ver­sa­tion with Ma­ri­na Sa­landy-Brown, founder and pres­i­dent of the Bo­cas Lit Fest, on Bus­by’s new col­lec­tion, Part of the Sto­ry.

In com­mem­o­ra­tion of World Press Free­dom Day, we hear from a vet­er­an jour­nal­ist and broad­cast­er on her ca­reer and how she’s re­mained stand­ing de­spite the many tests and pres­sures.

Ladies were ser­e­nad­ed and cel­e­brat­ed all night long in Clifton Hill, Point Fortin, as ZZAG­GAA Fam­i­ly host­ed its 2026 Woman Is Boss event last Wednes­day.

In­fer­til­i­ty in women can be de­fined as the in­abil­i­ty to achieve preg­nan­cy af­ter 12 months of try­ing with a male part­ner. It can al­so re­fer to the in­abil­i­ty to car­ry a preg­nan­cy to term. Fe­male in­fer­til­i­ty may re­sult from many fac­tors, such as blocked fal­lop­i­an tubes, hor­mon­al im­bal­ances, age-re­lat­ed de­cline in egg qual­i­ty, or health con­di­tions. Lifestyle fac­tors are im­por­tant in in­flu­enc­ing re­pro­duc­tive health.

Lisa At­wa­ter has been through the med­ical and emo­tion­al wringer, hav­ing had two ma­jor surg­eries in less than six months on her spine and brain. And al­though the dis­com­fort and changes in her lifestyle re­main un­wel­come vis­i­tors, there is one con­stant on which she can al­ways re­ly – the sup­port of her com­mu­ni­ty in Moru­ga.

Each May, health­care pro­fes­sion­als around the world ob­serve Preeclamp­sia Aware­ness Month, a cam­paign led by or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the Preeclamp­sia Foun­da­tion. Es­tab­lished in the ear­ly 2000s, this ini­tia­tive was cre­at­ed to im­prove aware­ness, pro­mote ear­ly de­tec­tion, and re­duce the se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with this con­di­tion. The cam­paign is of­ten rep­re­sent­ed by navy and hot pink colours and a pur­ple and blue rib­bon, sym­bol­is­ing strength, ur­gency, and ma­ter­nal health ad­vo­ca­cy.

Two love sto­ries, one stage—A Deal With Dark­ness lit up the Na­pari­ma Bowl from April 17 to 19, hold­ing au­di­ences spell­bound as per­form­ers brought lo­cal folk­lore vivid­ly to life in a haunt­ing and emo­tion­al­ly charged nar­ra­tive of love, sac­ri­fice and con­se­quence.

To­ba­go’s pre­mier jazz ex­pe­ri­ence is back with re­newed en­er­gy and am­bi­tion. Beach­front Jazz 2026, host­ed by Black Two Sug­ars, con­tin­ues the is­land’s rich tra­di­tion of jazz, kick­ing off to­day at the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach & Golf Re­sort as part of the To­ba­go Jazz, Mu­sic and Golf Week­end.

In an evening marked by re­flec­tion, sto­ry­telling, pride and ca­ma­raderie, Coast Guard re­tirees who served dur­ing the tur­bu­lent pe­ri­od of the 1970 Black Pow­er move­ment were ho­n­oured at a 56th an­niver­sary re­cep­tion in Long­denville.