In Stan­dard Three, Jew­el Greene-George was tak­en to the pub­lic li­brary in Ari­ma by her moth­er. She loved read­ing. She even had a shelf full of books at her home. Yet, noth­ing could pre­pare her for what she was about to ex­pe­ri­ence.

Win­ner of the 2025 Bo­cas Prize for Po­et­ry and now in con­tention for the over­all award, An­tho­ny Vah­ni Capildeo re­turns to Trinidad for a fes­ti­val apt­ly themed “Al­ways Com­ing Home”—bring­ing with them a po­et­ics forged in ex­ile, re­sis­tance, and the be­lief that “No in­di­vid­ual has true free­dom till all are free.”

Chelsea Har­ri­paul is a trail­blaz­er in con­ser­va­tion, tourism di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion, and com­mu­ni­ty em­pow­er­ment.

The Car­ni­val in the Sky — A Kite Fly­ing Fes­ti­val and Ex­hi­bi­tion kicked off on April 19 and 20 at the North Park, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, of­fer­ing a cap­ti­vat­ing dis­play of cul­tur­al har­mo­ny through the en­chant­i­ng art of kite fly­ing.

The Em­bassy of France, the High Com­mis­sion of Cana­da, the Hon­orary Con­sulate of Lebanon and the Hon­orary Con­sulates of Mo­roc­co and Bel­gium, along­side the Al­liance Française, re­cent­ly host­ed a spe­cial re­cep­tion to cel­e­brate the unique cul­ture of Fran­coph­o­nie mem­ber coun­tries.

The Coun­cil of Or­isha El­ders held its an­nu­al Moth­er Earth Day ob­ser­vance with a pro­ces­sion in San Fer­nan­do.

B efore he be­came a cer­ti­fied glo­be­trot­ter, Dil­lon De­Coteau dreamed about work­ing with aero­planes, but nev­er imag­ined he would be board­ing them one day in­stead of guid­ing them.

For­mer pri­ma­ry school teacher Leslie-Ann Jerome loved her job but re­alised God had a high­er pur­pose for her, so she re­signed af­ter serv­ing for two decades.

The third an­nu­al Sea­son of Anan­si Fes­ti­val was launched on April 16 at Cin­e­ma One IMAX at One Wood­brook Place, Port of Spain.

Ash­ta Sid­hi Nav Nid­hi Ke Daataa, pre­sent­ed by the Shi­va Gana Or­gan­i­sa­tion to cel­e­brate Hanu­man Jayan­ti, the birth­day of Shri Hanu­man was held at the Di­vali Na­gar in Ch­agua­nas last Sat­ur­day.

Many years ago, when she was asked to se­lect an ob­ject that per­son­i­fied her life’s pur­pose, Nadiège Hon­oré-Welling­ton se­lect­ed a lifebuoy.

In a ma­jor mile­stone for the in­ter­sec­tion of cul­ture, tech­nol­o­gy, and ed­u­ca­tion, the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion has launched ten new Tech­nol­o­gy in Ed­u­ca­tion (TIE) Cen­tres at pa­n­yards across T&T.