Mem­bers of the Ro­man Catholic faith gath­ered in their hun­dreds two Sun­days ago for Je­sus Ex­plo­sion 23.

Fol­low­ing the 49th Meet­ing of the Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment held from Ju­ly 6 to 8 in Ja­maica, Syn­er­gy Sphere Casa (SS­Casa), a T&T-based or­ga­ni­za­tion fo­cused on na­tion­al and re­gion­al work­force de­vel­op­ment strate­gies, is ac­cel­er­at­ing its ef­forts to sup­port re­gion­al ex­pan­sion, with a fo­cus on food se­cu­ri­ty, work­force em­pow­er­ment, and cross-sec­toral col­lab­o­ra­tion.

That’s ac­cord­ing to Am­bas­sador Gus­ta­vo Mar­tinez Pan­di­ani, who made the com­ment while speak­ing dur­ing the Ar­gen­tine Na­tion­al Day event at the Clu­b­room, Re­nais­sance at Shore­lands, Glen­coe, Care­nage, on Ju­ly 9.

On Ju­ly 20, the stage at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA) came alive with vi­brant colour, rhythm, and artistry as Bri­an Man­ga­roo’s Khal­nayak Acad­e­my of Dance took cen­tre stage in a spec­tac­u­lar live con­cert.

Cit­i­zens will soon have a rare op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­plore the an­cient spir­i­tu­al dis­ci­pline of Kriya Yo­ga through a se­ries of trans­for­ma­tive work­shops, sched­uled to take place from to­mor­row to Sun­day. The ses­sions will be led by Swa­mi Pur­nat­manan­da Giri, a high­ly re­spect­ed teacher from the Unit­ed States who has walked the Kriya path since 1992 and com­mit­ted his life to spir­i­tu­al ser­vice af­ter join­ing an ashram in 2005.

Cathi Hanauer was mar­ried to a man she loved, rais­ing a daugh­ter she adored, and sus­tain­ing a writ­ing life earned word by word, yet be­neath the sur­face of that care­ful­ly stitched do­mes­tic­i­ty some­thing soured—an un­ease that nev­er ex­plod­ed yet gath­ered silent­ly, like steam be­hind a closed door, ris­ing from a thou­sand small con­ces­sions, com­pro­mis­es, and swal­lowed sen­tences.

At just 21 years old, Is­abelle Laquis is al­ready leav­ing a lega­cy of im­pact across Trinidad and To­ba­go. Now go­ing in­to her fourth year at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mi­a­mi, Laquis is the co-founder of Let’s Give Back, a non­prof­it born at the height of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2020.

Now, I’m not say­ing rain can’t be dan­ger­ous—it can be. But so is cross­ing the high­way, and peo­ple still do that every day. Hik­ing in the rain just means you have to be smart. That’s all. Hike Club—that’s our lit­tle crew of na­ture-lov­ing fel­las and gyals—knows when and where to go, wet or dry. Over the years, we’ve learned which trails are best for sun, and which ones come alive when the rain falls.

It took a fa­ther’s love and a Trinida­di­an sur­geon’s steady hands to come to­geth­er in a spe­cial mo­ment that not on­ly saved a life, but al­so made med­ical his­to­ry in the Caribbean.

Yes­ter­day marked the 10th an­niver­sary of World Man­grove Day–a UN­ESCO-adopt­ed day aim­ing to raise aware­ness about the im­por­tance of man­grove ecosys­tems and pro­mote their sus­tain­able man­age­ment, con­ser­va­tion, and use.

Jan­ice Lear­mond-Criqui has nev­er been one to fol­low a tra­di­tion­al script. A cer­ti­fied pro­fes­sion­al life coach, she is set to re­lease her book en­ti­tled He Said the Right Things but Did He Mean Them–A Woman’s Guide to Un­der­stand­ing the Game, Guard­ing Her Heart and Grow­ing Her Worth. She has de­vot­ed many years to shap­ing, sup­port­ing, and in­spir­ing peo­ple. How­ev­er, her sto­ry has tak­en var­i­ous un­prece­dent­ed twists and turns, and her abil­i­ty to sur­mount chal­lenges with grace and poise has been an in­spi­ra­tion in and of it­self.

The sto­ry of Am­i­na Blake-Fore­man be­gins on the south­ern tip of Trinidad, in Fyz­abad, where en­tre­pre­neur­ial sparks were al­ready fly­ing by the time she turned sev­en. Back then, she was sell­ing spices from Grena­da—an ear­ly sign of a girl who would grow in­to a woman de­ter­mined to do more than just make a liv­ing. She was on a path to cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ty.