The sys­temic lu­pus ery­the­mato­sus (SLE) or Lu­pus as it is com­mon­ly called is an au­toim­mune dis­ease where the body’s im­mune sys­tem mis­tak­en­ly at­tacks healthy tis­sue. This dis­ease is a mul­ti-or­gan dis­ease which can af­fect the skin, joints, kid­neys and brain, just to name a few. Al­though the cause of lu­pus is not clear, it is be­lieved to be linked to fac­tors such as ge­net­ic, en­vi­ron­men­tal, hor­mon­al and even cer­tain med­i­cines.

The tim­ing couldn’t be more ap­pro­pri­ate. The ac­tion, per­fect­ly synced. It’s al­most as though the Uni­verse called on Caribbean singers like Isas­ha, Tur­bu­lence, Caple­ton and oth­ers of the reg­gae mu­sic move­ment, to speak up.

The world was spun up­side down and just as con­struc­tion work­ers were in the process of lay­ing down the foun­da­tion of the High­landers Steel Or­ches­tra’s new pan the­atre, when Covid-19 struck a hate­ful chord, tun­ing out a clo­sure of what was con­sid­ered non-es­sen­tial busi­ness in­clud­ing con­struc­tion.

It may have been a fa­mous say­ing of Hip­pocrates, but it is al­so the mot­to by which Dr Joel Teelucks­ingh lives.

Bake and Shark, or Shark and Bake — what­ev­er you call it — is ar­guably Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most fa­mous food. It’s the first stop you make at Mara­cas be­fore even putting your toes in the sand. And that makes to­tal sense.

In this harsh eco­nom­ic time, mem­bers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) To­co/ San­gre Grande ex­ec­u­tive de­cid­ed to ho­n­our moth­ers. One of the re­cip­i­ents was cen­te­nar­i­an Math­ar Far­ria of Church Street, Matu­ra.

Sim­mone Ed­win, one of our res­i­dent chefs at Propa Eats, is fa­mous for fus­ing in­ter­na­tion­al in­flu­ences with the foods and flavours we love most lo­cal­ly. Chef Sim­mone takes in­spi­ra­tion from Japan and cre­ates the ul­ti­mate Tri­ni break­fast ra­men. Her mas­ter­piece is made up of toma­to cho­ka broth, cur­ried dev­iled eggs and geera-and-cin­na­mon-spiced ba­con. Are you drool­ing yet? Be­cause we are.

There’s noth­ing more com­fort­ing than a big bowl of creamy, cheesy pas­ta. So luck­i­ly for you, this recipe tastes ex­act­ly like your fa­vorite restau­rant-style pas­ta Al­fre­do — ex­cept we added a few more in­gre­di­ents, so it’s burst­ing with sa­vory sun-dried toma­to and herb fla­vor. Be­cause of the toma­to, this toma­to Al­fre­do sauce turns slight­ly pink, which is dif­fer­ent to the tra­di­tion­al white Al­fre­do sauce we’re used to. Best part is you don’t have to leave your house to en­joy it.

Par­faits orig­i­nat­ed in France and it trans­lates to “per­fect”. That on­ly seems fit­ting, since that’s ex­act­ly what this dessert is: per­fec­tion in a glass. These lay­ers of plump, soft berries, whipped cream and crunchy streusel are easy to as­sem­ble and sat­is­fy all your sweet crav­ings.

San Fer­nan­do May­or and CEO of Caribbean Air­lines Skif­fle Steel Or­ches­tra Ju­nia Re­grel­lo ini­ti­at­ed a hu­man­i­tar­i­an ef­fort to as­sist mem­bers of South­ern Marines Steel Or­ches­tra with food ham­pers. This has come about in the band’s time of need since the cri­sis of the world­wide pan­dem­ic COVID-19 has left many fam­i­lies with­out.

Since their ar­rival in 1845, East In­di­ans, not on­ly with­in T&T, but through­out the West In­dies, have made and con­tin­ue to make an in­deli­ble mark on all spheres of life: the arts, acad­e­mia, pol­i­tics, cul­ture and more. Through­out the decades, the con­tri­bu­tions of the East In­di­an com­mu­ni­ty have be­come part of our main­stream cul­ture and have added fur­ther char­ac­ter and dis­tinc­tion to our mul­ti-eth­nic artis­tic ex­pres­sions.

They start­ed in ear­ly April, blow­ing up so­cial me­dia with their videoed ren­di­tion of Heal the World dur­ing the ini­tial stage of the pan­dem­ic’s glob­al lock­down. In­cor­po­rat­ing 15 of their male and fe­male lo­cal and for­eign sea­soned pan play­ers, re­spec­tive­ly, BP Rene­gades Steel Or­ches­tra would present to the world a sooth­ing, first-rate re­pro­duc­tion of the 1992 re­lease from the late Michael Jack­son.