“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.

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.

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 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.

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.

A chance to own a piece of col­lectible art­work by an ac­claimed T&T painter, and sup­port lit­er­ary de­vel­op­ment at the same time? That’s the dou­ble ben­e­fit of the of­fi­cial poster re­leased by the Bo­cas Lit Fest to com­mem­o­rate its 15th an­nu­al fes­ti­val.

Ac­claimed Trinida­di­an vo­cal­ist Le­An­dra cap­ti­vat­ed au­di­ences with the con­cert Le­An­dra Live —Strings and Voice II, an el­e­gant mu­si­cal show­case at the his­toric Stollmey­er’s Cas­tle (Cas­tle Kil­lar­ney), Port-of-Spain.

Amer­i­can Tra­cy Thorn­ton first heard the steel­pan in 1988 on a song, Jane Says, by his then-favourite rock band, and thought it was cool.

Saman­tha John Best, the well-known for­mer news an­chor, is us­ing her ex­pe­ri­ence to help oth­ers con­quer one of the most com­mon fears—pub­lic speak­ing.

The 519 Restau­rant and Bar at C3 Cen­tre in south Trinidad was trans­formed in­to a pul­sat­ing night­club on April 12 when it joined with the Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion (RKF) to host Maui Nights—The White Lo­tus.