Fash­ion takes flight at the I am Jazz in Red con­cert which was held at Cipri­ani Labour Col­lege, Val­sayn on East­er Sun­day.

Cat­ty’s Ranch on Mex­i­co Road in Waller­field trans­formed in­to a live­ly hub for the an­nu­al Morn­ing Melé, a break­fast cool­er fete

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.

The rhyth­mic pulse of the dho­lak and the bright, metal­lic ring of the dhan­tal filled the Cou­va South Au­di­to­ri­um re­cent­ly as In­di­an Clas­si­cal mu­sic and tra­di­tion­al chut­ney shared cen­tre stage in a seam­less cul­tur­al show­case led by Dubraj Per­sad.

Chut­ney mu­sic star Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine is set to head­line this year’s I Am the Mu­sic Boss con­cert, shar­ing top billing with Vaib­hav Gup­ta.

Three of this coun­try’s best singers were heard in con­cert on Palm Sun­day at the Abbey at Mount St. Bene­dict. Ko­ry Mendez, Ed­ward Cum­ber­batch, and David Williams, pre­sent­ed by MW Pro­duc­tions, sang a pro­gramme of most­ly sa­cred songs, arias and en­sem­bles, which brought the ap­pre­cia­tive au­di­ence to their feet in a stand­ing ova­tion.

The Wa­ter­loo Po­lice Youth Club (WPYC) cel­e­brat­ed East­er with a high­ly suc­cess­ful, first-ever fam­i­ly day and sport­ing ex­trav­a­gan­za, which fea­tured sev­er­al fun ac­tiv­i­ties for scores of chil­dren from the com­mu­ni­ty. The event was held at the Bank Vil­lage Sport­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in Cara­pichaima on March 28.

Mor­gan Lewis was di­ag­nosed with autism at the age of 19, and has been for­tu­nate enough to have had a cir­cle who un­der­stood and gave her the sup­port she need­ed, even pri­or to her di­ag­no­sis. A lit­tle over a decade lat­er, she is get­ting ready to com­plete a first de­gree in so­cial work with a mi­nor in psy­chol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine cam­pus, with the hope of of­fer­ing the same type of sup­port, but from a pro­fes­sion­al per­spec­tive.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Cae­sare­an Aware­ness Net­work (ICAN) has des­ig­nat­ed April as In­ter­na­tion­al Ce­sare­an Aware­ness Month (ICAM).

At 32 years old, Ar­i­an­na Sookram of Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, is known by many for her warm spir­it, gen­tle na­ture, and gen­uine care for oth­ers. A young woman of great faith and a qui­et in­ner strength, her sto­ry is one shaped by per­se­ver­ance and a deep sense of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to loved ones. In the cir­cum­stances of ad­ver­si­ty she has faced, her un­shake­able sense of self has made her ex­tra­or­di­nary, and those who know her recog­nise a woman who has qui­et­ly built a life root­ed in hard work, hu­mil­i­ty, and trust in God.

If teenage Lisa-Marie Brown had it her way and fol­lowed her first love, she would like­ly be an al­ter­na­tive rock mu­sic artiste tour­ing some far-flung cor­ner of the globe, prob­a­bly with an al­bum or two to her name. Grow­ing up in a house­hold filled with the sounds of church choirs and fam­i­ly singers, mu­sic was her en­tire world. By 16, she was the lead singer of the lo­cal al­ter­na­tive band Mor­ris Can Be Con­tact­ed, a quirky name plucked straight from a news­pa­per’s clas­si­fied sec­tion. “It felt like I was liv­ing my dream,” she rem­i­nisces. “I loved be­ing on stage, I loved re­hearsals, and I loved the en­er­gy of cre­at­ing some­thing to­geth­er every week.”

The yel­low poui blooms un­der grey skies, sur­viv­ing Sa­hara dust and dry sea­son rain, as East­er ar­rives af­ter the hush of Eid and the colour of Phag­wa. And what a sea­son it is to sur­vive.