Some­thing mag­i­cal hap­pens when the tra­di­tion­al tan­go dance style meets so­ca, and mem­bers of the pub­lic got the chance to ex­pe­ri­ence it in Port-of-Spain.

Er­il Gar­cia is gen­er­al­ly not one to al­low dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances to keep her down. So when she was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer at 45, as scared as she was, she took time to process what was hap­pen­ing, then did what was nec­es­sary to get her­self back to a pos­i­tive place.

Shar­da Patasar has placed Trinidad and To­ba­go on the in­ter­na­tion­al map with her new piece, Au­dac­i­ty of Black Wa­ter. The track is in­clud­ed on Earth Ris­ing, Vol II: Mes­sages from the Pale Blue Dot, part of a three-vol­ume project com­mis­sioned by the UK arts or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ar­tan­gel. Patasar’s work stands out as a rare in­stru­men­tal orig­i­nat­ing from the Caribbean rather than In­dia—and the first sitar com­po­si­tion in the se­ries.

The earth is the Lord’s, and the ful­ness there­of; the world, and they that dwell there­in (Psalm 24:1).

Oc­to­ber is the Month of Learn­ing Dif­fi­cul­ties, but let’s change that name. How about the Month of Learn­ing Dif­fer­ent­ly? Some brains just work in unique, amaz­ing ways!

Death is one of life’s few cer­tain­ties. We know that every life must even­tu­al­ly end, yet noth­ing tru­ly pre­pares us for the mo­ment some­one or a pet we love is gone.

Di­vya Go­cool has al­ready dis­cov­ered some­thing that many peo­ple spend a life­time search­ing for — her voice.

Chi­nese Ar­rival Day will be ob­served on Oc­to­ber 12. This year marks the 220th an­niver­sary of the ar­rival of the first group of Chi­nese mi­grants to Trinidad and To­ba­go, with 192 mi­grants aboard the For­ti­tude in 1806.

As Score4Can­cer us­es foot­ball to raise aware­ness about the dis­ease, one sur­vivor re­flects on the di­ag­no­sis, treat­ment and life af­ter can­cer.

For years, Mar­cus Prince re­ceived com­pli­ments on his sense of fash­ion. But one day, when a close friend sought as­sis­tance in choos­ing some out­fits, he thought, “Maybe help­ing oth­ers in this way could be a busi­ness ven­ture.” And now, he has of­fi­cial­ly opened his first phys­i­cal lo­ca­tion for Prince, his very own lux­u­ry menswear brand in Port-of-Spain.

Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al San Fer­nan­do host­ed a fundrais­er, the Pink, Pearls and Pinot Gala, at the Le Reve Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, C3 Cen­tre, San Fer­nan­do, on Sep­tem­ber 6.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go bids farewell to the Mighty Spar­row to­day, the mem­o­ries of a mu­si­cal gi­ant live on through the per­for­mances that cap­ti­vat­ed gen­er­a­tions.