As teach­ers make their way back to the class­rooms for a new aca­d­e­m­ic year, one artist is mak­ing sure that some of his fel­low artists who are or were teach­ers are giv­en the recog­ni­tion they some­times for­get to give them­selves.

Whether you are swap­ping out a blown en­gine to give your beloved car a sec­ond life, or you have sim­ply de­cid­ed to treat your­self by paint­ing your ve­hi­cle a vi­brant new colour, cus­tomis­ing your car is an ex­cit­ing process. How­ev­er, in Trinidad and To­ba­go, your ve­hi­cle’s en­gine num­ber and paint colour are strict­ly tied to its le­gal iden­ti­ty. Chang­ing ei­ther of these with­out of­fi­cial­ly up­dat­ing your doc­u­men­ta­tion is a se­ri­ous le­gal of­fence.

Chelsea Ann Claver­ie may soon earn her­self the Queen of Pop-Up ti­tle, hav­ing filled the venues of at least 25 pop-up events with the scent of her de­li­cious brown­ies, ba­nana breads, cook­ies, muffins and cin­na­mon rolls.

Ever since he could re­mem­ber, Jude Phillip knew he want­ed to do one of two things with his life: play foot­ball or make mu­sic.

I’ve heard many of my clients say that they drink en­er­gy drinks when they feel tired, have a long day ahead or work late. Why? They use it as a tool to keep them awake!

The term or con­cept of three in one may have vary­ing in­ter­pre­ta­tions de­pend­ing on whether you are a philoso­pher, a Ro­man Catholic (the Holy Trin­i­ty) or a math­e­mati­cian. For the more ground­ed and down-to-earth, it may al­so re­fer to the drinker who will con­sume “three” in one shot, but more rel­e­vant­ly, it refers to the trav­eller who has ex­plored three sep­a­rate coun­tries or des­ti­na­tions con­sec­u­tive­ly.

Thou­sands of chil­dren re­turned to school last Mon­day as the 2026/2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gan. As par­ents and stu­dents look for­ward to the sec­ond week of class­es and school ac­tiv­i­ties, here are some im­ages which cap­ture the hap­pi­ness of school days.

World Alzheimer’s Month is ob­served through­out the month of Sep­tem­ber. This year's theme The Ear­li­er You Know, the More You Can Do: A De­men­tia Di­ag­no­sis Mat­ters fo­cus­es on ear­ly di­ag­no­sis which will help guide care for the pa­tient and for the care­giv­er. In this Sun­day's WE Read, we ex­plore how a daugh­ter's ex­pe­ri­ence of car­ing for her moth­er shaped two books to help oth­ers fac­ing a sim­i­lar jour­ney.

Wa­ter­sports are for every­one. It’s a mes­sage na­tion­al free­d­iv­ing record-hold­er and speech-lan­guage pathol­o­gist Shiv­ani Gob­erd­han helped spread across Hawaii, which she has brought back to her home coun­try. Now based in To­ba­go, she’s cham­pi­oning and as­sist­ing with the in­volve­ment of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties in some of her favourite dis­ci­plines.

For some women, when no ob­vi­ous cause of pelvic pain is found, a gy­nae­col­o­gist may some­times con­sid­er pelvic con­ges­tion syn­drome.

“Then said I un­to them, ‘Ye see the dis­tress that we are in, how Jerusalem li­eth waste, and the gates there­of are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a re­proach.’ Then I told them of the hand of my God, which was good up­on me, as al­so the king’s words that he had spo­ken un­to me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strength­ened their hands for this good work” (Ne­hemi­ah 2:17 and 18).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ya­tra Com­mit­tee pre­sent­ed the Ul­ti­mate Kr­ish­na Jan­mash­ta­mi Ex­pe­ri­ence, as part of their an­nu­al Kali Ya­tra Fes­ti­val on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 4 at the Di­vali Na­gar.