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.

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

From Toron­to to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Dr An­drew Seep­er­sad is re­turn­ing with more than a doc­tor­ate. He is com­ing back with a sharp­ened frame­work for de­ci­sion-mak­ing, a deep­er ad­vi­so­ry lens, and a clear ar­gu­ment that in­no­va­tion in this coun­try must move be­yond talk and in­to dis­ci­plined ex­e­cu­tion.

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.

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.

For many peo­ple, be­ing un­healthy feels like a per­son­al fail­ure. It is not that they lack knowl­edge, but they strug­gle with con­sis­ten­cy.

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.

When scrolling so­cial me­dia, a video from Cheer­ful Com­pa­ny is hard to skip. Avril’s in­fec­tious laugh­ter, KP’s fa­cial ex­pres­sions and Shinzy’s calm hu­mour draw you right in. These women have been pro­vid­ing joy and com­e­dy to the en­tire Caribbean through our screens since 2024—and they’re just get­ting start­ed.

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.

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.

Just a few years ago, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) was some­thing Kur­tis Rudd ap­proached with cau­tion. Like many in Trinidad and To­ba­go, his ear­ly im­pres­sions were shaped by warn­ings about dis­rup­tion, job loss and eth­i­cal con­cerns. To­day, how­ev­er, he stands at the fore­front of a grow­ing move­ment to make AI not on­ly ac­ces­si­ble, but prac­ti­cal and em­pow­er­ing for Caribbean pro­fes­sion­als.