Moth­er’s Day of­ten cel­e­brates the ide­alised ma­ter­nal bond—flow­ers, grat­i­tude, and the mythol­o­gy of un­con­di­tion­al love. But for many women, the re­la­tion­ship with their moth­ers is more com­plex, lay­ered with si­lence, mis­un­der­stand­ing, long­ing, and un­spo­ken grace. Lit­er­a­ture, es­pe­cial­ly by women writ­ers, of­fers us not sim­pli­fi­ca­tions, but truths.

This Moth­er’s Day, we take a mo­ment to ho­n­our the silent rit­u­als, gen­er­a­tional pride, and per­son­al pow­er wo­ven in­to the strands of every Caribbean moth­er’s hair. From Sun­day braid­ing tra­di­tions to re­claim­ing beau­ty through post­par­tum hair loss, a moth­er’s hair jour­ney is an emo­tion­al archive of strength, sac­ri­fice, and self-ex­pres­sion

Cheryl Leong Poi was a cre­ative and tal­ent­ed per­son, turn­ing every hob­by in­to a suc­cess­ful project. This in­clud­ed build­ing fur­ni­ture, fix­ing ap­pli­ances, knit­ting, and bak­ing de­li­cious home­made bread and cakes.

Stu­dents from Ma­yaro and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties have com­plet­ed an in­ten­sive eight-week train­ing pro­gramme in Me­dia and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Arts, con­duct­ed by Se­nior Broad­cast Jour­nal­ist and me­dia ed­u­ca­tor, Stephen Cum­mings.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), through its Bio­di­ver­si­ty Team, in­stalled four new sea tur­tle nest­ing signs along Man­zanil­la Beach.

The last night of the 2025 Bo­cas Lit Fest be­longed to the peo­ple, at the Fi­nals of the First Cit­i­zens Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam. Voic­es “from the ground” rose to meet the high stage at NA­PA, and what fol­lowed was less a show and more a nec­es­sary reck­on­ing, as com­peti­tors in­ter­pret­ed the theme Bring It Home.

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.

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.

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 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.