The Montser­rat Co­coa Farm­ers’ Co-Op­er­a­tive So­ci­ety Ltd (MCF) host­ed its fourth an­nu­al Co­coa Food Fes­ti­val at La Ve­ga Es­tate, Gran Cou­va, on Sat­ur­day, high­light­ing the di­verse and in­no­v­a­tive us­es of the co­coa bean be­yond tra­di­tion­al choco­late prod­ucts.

Au­thor and ed­u­ca­tor Ian Isidore Smart re­cent­ly launched The Caribbean Re­nais­sance and Car­ni­val at NALIS, Port-of-Spain.

Glob­al T&T’s RVRB eX­pe­ri­ence (RVRB X) - an Artiste De­vel­op­ment Work­shop is a dy­nam­ic two-day in­ten­sive de­signed to pro­fes­sion­al­ly de­vel­op T&T mu­si­cians and per­form­ers.

Di­vine fem­i­nine en­er­gy will be cel­e­brat­ed on Sat­ur­day at the scenic Es­tate 101 in Mar­aval, from 5 pm, when Chantuelle Queen Em­press Ajé presents the fifth stag­ing of the IBA Mu­sic Fes­ti­val.

Lisa Faye Sar­jeant’s DM (Di­rect Mes­sage) blew up in ear­ly April when one of her pieces was styled by Trinidad-born fash­ion ex­pert An­to­nia Fi­fi, now based in Cana­da.

In the run-up to the No­vem­ber 5, 2007 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, SC, was the UNC’s then Op­po­si­tion Leader. She was, how­ev­er, in­fa­mous­ly side­lined by the then lead­er­ship and faced a very dif­fi­cult choice—leave the UNC to save her rep­u­ta­tion or re­main and be con­signed to po­lit­i­cal ir­rel­e­vance.

For the first time in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s his­to­ry, three women con­cur­rent­ly hold the of­fices of Pres­i­dent, Prime Min­is­ter, and Leader of the Op­po­si­tion—mark­ing a his­toric mo­ment that sig­nals a broad­er shift in the coun­try’s lead­er­ship land­scape.

This May, the world’s longest-run­ning beau­ty pageant—Miss World—re­turns to In­dia, with the vi­brant and youth­ful state of Telan­gana, proud­ly step­ping in­to the glob­al spot­light as host. Span­ning four weeks from May 7 to 31, the 72nd edi­tion of the Miss World Pageant will un­fold across scenic des­ti­na­tions in Telan­gana, cul­mi­nat­ing in an open­ing and clos­ing cel­e­bra­tion in Hy­der­abad.

“In the ver­sion I know, the woman is the daugh­ter of slaves, Black, Amer­i­can, and lives alone in a small house out­side of town. Her rep­u­ta­tion for wis­dom is with­out peer and with­out ques­tion. Among her peo­ple she is both the law and its trans­gres­sion. The ho­n­our she is paid and the awe in which she is held reach be­yond her neigh­bour­hood to places far away; to the city, where the in­tel­li­gence of rur­al prophets is the source of much amuse­ment.

“He is one of the coolest peo­ple. What will we do with­out him?” That’s the kind of sen­ti­ment echoed by staff at Sam­ford Uni­ver­si­ty in Al­aba­ma when speak­ing about Caleb Noah John—a young man whose qui­et strength and char­ac­ter left a last­ing im­pact far be­yond the class­room.

Af­ter near­ly two decades op­er­at­ing from a retro­fit­ted ship­ping con­tain­er, the Parish of St Jude in Ari­ma is tak­ing steps to­ward re­build­ing its long-lost rec­to­ry with the help of a ma­jor fundrais­ing ef­fort this Moth­er’s Day.

Kevin Al­lis­ter Gar­cia’s re­cent so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion at the Art So­ci­ety of T&T pro­vid­ed view­ers with fas­ci­nat­ing in­sights in­to the heart and mind of a cre­ator in­tent on ex­plor­ing as many facets of his craft as are avail­able and, in the process, pre­sent­ing truths about T&T life.