Nicholaus Williams, known to the mu­sic world as Trinidad James, has nev­er been one to fol­low a pre­dictable script. The At­lanta-based rap­per, best known for his 2012 break­out hit ‘All Gold Every­thing’, is now lay­ing the tracks for his first-ever so­ca al­bum, a body of work he says re­con­nects him with his her­itage.

For the fourth con­sec­u­tive sea­son, dancers will push their lim­its in pur­suit of top ho­n­ours at a three-day dance fes­ti­val in Ar­genti­na.

Re­turn of the Red In­di­ans, pre­sent­ed by Stealth Tech Lim­it­ed Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee, made a com­plete sweep of all ma­jor awards in the re­cent Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee’s Pa­rade of the Bands com­pe­ti­tion.

The fourth edi­tion of the To­ba­go Jazz and Mu­sic Week­end promis­es to have pa­trons swing­ing in more ways than one.

When 20-time Gram­my Award-win­ning gospel icon Kirk Franklin steps on­to the stage at Queen’s Park Oval on March 21, it will sig­nal far more than the start of a con­cert. It will mark a bold na­tion­al state­ment: no soul is be­yond re­demp­tion, no life be­yond restora­tion, and no com­mu­ni­ty be­yond trans­for­ma­tion.

Tem­ple fairs are a key part of Chi­nese New Year cel­e­bra­tions, which this year marks the Year of the Horse.

One look at Vanes­sa Dieudonne’s Tik­Tok page and you’d swear she has been vis­it­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go for years. The ma­jor­i­ty of her con­tent is ded­i­cat­ed to our twin is­lands, cap­tur­ing every­thing from Mara­cas Beach and Port-of-Spain to the folk­lore of Cru­soe’s Cave and the night­time rhythm of Buc­coo.

When mas­quer­aders took to the streets in Ch­agua­nas for Car­ni­val, daz­zling in feath­ers, beads and bold colour, much of the spec­ta­cle can be traced back to the steady hands and sharp mind of 25-year-old de­sign­er Maris­sa Bridglal.

Our friends at Fam­i­lies in Ac­tion con­tin­ue their fo­cus on un­der­stand­ing work­place stress. In Part I, they told us why, across Trinidad and To­ba­go, work­ers in al­most all sec­tors felt un­der pres­sure and how the line be­tween “at work” and “off du­ty” has dis­ap­peared, cre­at­ing strain and stress.

For many women, tak­ing care of them­selves feels wrong. It is not that self-care lacks val­ue, but that they feel they do not de­serve it.

An­gli­can Rev­erend Danielle Pon­ti­f­let’s life has al­ways been cen­tred around the church. But it took some time be­fore she un­der­stood and ac­cept­ed her call­ing—ser­vice to God as an or­dained min­is­ter, with a spe­cial em­pha­sis on so­ci­ety’s foun­da­tion.

Es­tab­lished in 1996 in the UK, af­ter the 1991 Book­er Prize short­list fea­tured no women, the Women’s Prize for Fic­tion was cre­at­ed to recog­nise the best nov­el writ­ten in Eng­lish by a woman and pub­lished in Britain each year. Orig­i­nal­ly launched as the Or­ange Prize, it has be­come one of the most sig­nif­i­cant in­ter­na­tion­al lit­er­ary awards, bring­ing sus­tained at­ten­tion to women writ­ers across bor­ders and back­grounds — a mis­sion re­flect­ed in this se­lec­tion of eight short­list­ed women of colour.