One com­mon ques­tion women ask dur­ing preg­nan­cy is: “Can I pre­vent preeclamp­sia?” It’s an im­por­tant ques­tion—es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing Preeclamp­sia Aware­ness Month, an ini­tia­tive led by or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the Preeclamp­sia Foun­da­tion to im­prove ed­u­ca­tion and out­comes for moth­ers and ba­bies.

Age­ing is a part of life and a nat­ur­al part of liv­ing. It’s a gift that many of us take for grant­ed. The ma­jor­i­ty of the time, when we don’t prac­tice healthy habits and we don’t bal­ance and nour­ish our bod­ies with in­ten­tion, our meta­bol­ic age can be old­er than our ac­tu­al age. For women, our en­er­gy, skin elas­tic­i­ty, bone strength and men­tal clar­i­ty de­pend on the right foods to nour­ish our bod­ies.

A moth­er’s dream of cre­at­ing in­clu­sive play for her son has giv­en birth to T&T’s first sen­so­ry play park.

For Mar­cel Williams, mu­sic and min­istry go hand-in-hand. The singer-song­writer wants his songs to in­stil hope in oth­ers and bring joy to all who lis­ten.

For more than two decades, chut­ney star Adesh Sama­roo has re­mained one of the most recog­nis­able voic­es in In­do-Caribbean mu­sic, and this month the en­ter­tain­er is tak­ing his en­er­getic per­for­mances to au­di­ences across the Nether­lands.

Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin has de­clared that the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) is un­der­go­ing an op­er­a­tional shake-up, as she of­fi­cial­ly launched NA­PA Jazz Fu­sion 2026.

Bud­ding play­wright, teacher and lec­tur­er Del­lon Math­i­son is bring­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al sto­ry with a Caribbean twist to the stage with his lat­est pro­duc­tion, Mas and Melody, a re-imag­in­ing in­spired by Dis­ney’s Beau­ty and the Beast.

The un­mis­tak­able rhythms of Baithak Gana echoed through the Cen­tre Point Mall Au­di­to­ri­um in Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day night, as Dutch singer Dewinder­s­ingh Sew­nath de­liv­ered a per­for­mance that left pa­trons cheer­ing for more.

Fire­stone Restau­rant of Brent­wood brought Mex­i­can flair to Ch­agua­nas with an ex­tend­ed Cin­co de Mayo cel­e­bra­tion on May 5.

In­fer­til­i­ty is far more com­mon in Trinidad and To­ba­go than most peo­ple re­alise, af­fect­ing an es­ti­mat­ed one in six cou­ples. Yet it re­mains one of the coun­try’s most qui­et­ly en­dured chal­lenges. Be­hind closed doors, many nav­i­gate un­cer­tain­ty, mis­in­for­ma­tion and stig­ma with lit­tle sup­port in an at­tempt to grow their fam­i­lies. For the past 20-plus years, The Trinidad and To­ba­go IVF and Fer­til­i­ty Cen­tre (TTIVF) has sup­port­ed count­less fam­i­lies strug­gling with in­fer­til­i­ty by help­ing them con­ceive the pre­cious gift of new life. The cen­tre has achieved sev­er­al ma­jor feats, in­clud­ing the birth of the first IVF ba­by in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean in 1997 and the de­liv­ery of more than 3,000 ba­bies since 2008.

Parish­ioners from the St Philip and St James RC Church re­cent­ly host­ed their an­nu­al Parish Har­vest at the church com­pound in Ch­agua­nas.

Glob­al­ly, an es­ti­mat­ed one mil­lion plas­tic bot­tles are pur­chased every minute. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, many of them even­tu­al­ly end up in drains, rivers and land­fills—fu­elling the flood­ing night­mare res­i­dents know all too well dur­ing the rainy sea­son.