Shahi­ra Ali can be seen do­ing the re­gion­al roundup on Gayelle TV on Wednes­days, and her two gospel sin­gles, Grate­ful and We Need Love, are mak­ing the rounds on the air­waves – a far cry from the child who strug­gled with the symp­toms of autism be­fore know­ing and un­der­stand­ing what she was fac­ing.

These im­ages cap­ture qui­et, joy­ful and re­flec­tive mo­ments as women take part in sa­cred ob­ser­vances dur­ing Holy Week, from the solemn pro­ces­sion of Palm Sun­day to the prayer­ful jour­ney of the Sta­tions of the Cross. Each frame re­flects de­vo­tion, strength, and rev­er­ence, as faith is ex­pressed through tra­di­tion, com­mu­ni­ty, and per­son­al re­flec­tion.

Al­low the spir­it of God to lead you, and live in love,” are two of the many pro­found mes­sages Laven­tille res­i­dent Genelle Bharat ad­vo­cates.

T&T pro­duc­er and singer-song­writer Kur­tis “Lon­don Fu­ture” Wells feels grate­ful and ec­sta­t­ic af­ter work­ing with Ko­re­an megas­tars BTS. He co-wrote two songs on their lat­est al­bum, ARI­RANG.

On March 28, ace mu­si­cian, com­pos­er, arranger and pro­duc­er Dr Pel­ham God­dard gave pa­trons a night to re­mem­ber when he and a cadre of mu­si­cal col­lab­o­ra­tors cel­e­brat­ed his jour­ney in the pro­duc­tion Echoes of an Era: Friend­ship at Kafe Blue in Port-of-Spain.

So­ca star De­stra Gar­cia stepped in­to a dif­fer­ent mu­si­cal and spir­i­tu­al space last week­end when she staged her gospel con­cert Re­flec­tions at Queen’s Hall, of­fer­ing au­di­ences an evening cen­tred on faith, tes­ti­mo­ny and vo­cal ex­pres­sion.

This Good Fri­day, one young man takes on the role of Je­sus. And as he car­ries the cross, he car­ries with him not just a role, but the faith of an en­tire com­mu­ni­ty.

De­part­ing US-born UWI De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts (DC­FA) eth­no­mu­si­col­o­gist, Prof Jean­nine Re­my, was treat­ed to a spec­tac­u­lar demon­stra­tion of the in­struc­tion she has de­liv­ered over the years when the UWI Arts Per­cus­sion En­sem­ble paid trib­ute to her on March 28.

Amid a year marked by can­celled jazz events and tight­en­ing fund­ing, the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val is chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course—one de­fined not by re­treat, but by rein­ven­tion.

Stan­dard Two and Three stu­dents from the Jern­ing­ham Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School in Ch­agua­nas got the chance of a life­time dur­ing a field trip to To­ba­go re­cent­ly.

For over a decade, mem­bers of Mil­waz Pro­duc­tions have been en­gaged in ex­pe­ri­en­tial study of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture, with a strong fo­cus on Shake­speare­an ed­u­ca­tion – the re­al­i­sa­tion of a dream for founder Janei­ka Tu­dor-Bap­tiste. The com­pa­ny has en­gaged stu­dents and teach­ers through per­for­mances, adap­tions and work­shops, and has made use of every op­por­tu­ni­ty to gain in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ence to strength­en its abil­i­ty to achieve its mis­sion of reignit­ing the pas­sion for Shake­speare and lit­er­ary arts in Caribbean class­rooms.

As a gy­nae­col­o­gist, one of the most fre­quent con­cerns I hear from young women re­volves around ir­reg­u­lar pe­ri­ods. While oc­ca­sion­al vari­a­tions in the men­stru­al cy­cle can be com­plete­ly nor­mal—es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing ado­les­cence or times of stress—per­sis­tent ir­reg­u­lar­i­ty is of­ten the body’s way of sig­nalling that some­thing deep­er may be go­ing on. One of the most com­mon un­der­ly­ing caus­es is Poly­cys­tic Ovary Syn­drome, or PCOS.