World Health Day was ob­served on April 7. The day serves as a glob­al cam­paign to raise aware­ness about health is­sues af­fect­ing peo­ple world­wide. Here at home, there is one doc­tor who has been play­ing her part in en­sur­ing women and peo­ple from all walks of life un­der­stand the com­plex health is­sues im­pact­ing their lives.

Nan­cy Her­rera has vi­sions of Steven Spiel­berg, to have lights in all forms of fash­ion on the Queen’s Hall stage when Meta­mor­pho­sis Dance Com­pa­ny presents Il­lu­mi­na­tion– A Jour­ney of Light and Be­com­ing on April 18 and 19. Think of his sci-fi clas­sic Close En­coun­ters of the Third Kind, in which he used in­tense, colour­ful lights and shafts of blind­ing white light to rep­re­sent the alien pres­ence. While Il­lu­mi­na­tion has noth­ing to do with ex­trater­res­tri­al be­ings, the spec­tac­u­lar use of light a la Spiel­berg would have been fas­ci­nat­ing for Her­rera.

The Form Two year group of Bish­op Anstey High School East in Trinci­ty host­ed the first Cake Pic­nic on March 23 with a va­ri­ety of ar­ti­san cakes in a num­ber of flavours, in­clud­ing Boston Cream, Mar­ble, Red Vel­vet, Lemon Blue­ber­ry, to name a few, on dis­play.

The month of April is In­ter­na­tion­al Cae­sare­an Aware­ness Month, which places fo­cus on C-sec­tions and the im­pact they have on the health of women well af­ter a ba­by is de­liv­ered.

Build­ing on the theme, Jour­ney Through Time, stu­dents at the Bish­op Anstey Trin­i­ty Col­lege East sixth form trans­formed the school’s sa­van­nah in­to an his­tor­i­cal and fu­tur­is­tic space, as the six hous­es vied for the top spots in the in­sti­tu­tion’s an­nu­al sports day on March 25.

As we con­tin­ue to ob­serve Autism Aware­ness, we hear from those clos­est to autists—their loved ones.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, we have made herbal sup­ple­ments part of our dai­ly rou­tine. Cap­sules of­ten promise quick re­sults and may lead us to think that they are safer to use. Women use them as reme­dies for men­stru­al pain, fer­til­i­ty, and hor­mone bal­ance, to name a few. The be­lief that they are nat­ur­al is mis­lead­ing and while some herbs have ben­e­fits and I rec­om­mend them in my pri­vate prac­tice, sup­ple­ments can car­ry hid­den risks that are over­looked, es­pe­cial­ly for women. The most pow­er­ful tool for main­tain­ing women’s health is prop­er nu­tri­tion.

To­day, the Book­shelf turns to the voice of So­journ­er Truth, who spoke up for women’s rights at a time when she had no rights at all.

For Ker­nal Roberts, son of leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Lord Kitch­en­er (Ald­wyn Roberts), grow­ing up in the shad­ow of a mu­si­cal ti­tan was as over­whelm­ing as it was in­spir­ing.

When Nathan Dur­gas­ingh re­ceived a pair of Guc­ci slides for his 15th birth­day, they were the on­ly gift he got that year. His friend Rhys Thomp­son sur­prised him with them dur­ing a vis­it to South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary, where his moth­er worked in the school cafe­te­ria. He was a fa­mil­iar face, of­ten stop­ping by on his free days to lend a hand. The two quick­ly bond­ed over mu­sic, es­pe­cial­ly drum­ming. Grow­ing up in Laven­tille, Nathan had lit­tle ac­cess to brand-name items, and that act of kind­ness changed his life.

For bal­le­ri­na Christi­na Good­ing, dance has nev­er been just an ex­tracur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ty—it has been a con­stant, shap­ing force in her life since the age of three.

For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year, Mc­Cann Port-of-Spain has ce­ment­ed its po­si­tion as the Caribbean’s lead­ing cre­ative agency, se­cur­ing more awards than any oth­er firm at the 2026 Amer­i­can Ad­ver­tis­ing Awards (Caribbean).