The Deputy Di­rec­tor of Re­search In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA) is the tech­ni­cal lead on pi­lot­ing a Blue Car­bon Cred­it Scheme for T&T.

From the mo­ment she could walk, sev­en-year-old Atarah Bachan was al­ways in mo­tion, kick­ing a ball, swing­ing a bat, or throw­ing stones at the man­go tree in the back­yard. Her love for sports was ev­i­dent.

Of­ten de­scribed along with oth­er neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal dis­or­ders as a “silent con­di­tion” due to it not al­ways be­ing vi­su­al­ly or im­me­di­ate­ly ap­par­ent, Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der (wide­ly called autism) af­fects ap­prox­i­mate­ly one in 36 chil­dren glob­al­ly (CDC, 2024) and 15,000-17,000 peo­ple in T&T (Autism So­ci­ety of T&T, 2014).

The 20th edi­tion of Jazz Artists on The Greens (JAOTG) takes place this evening at “The Greens” at WASA Sports Club Grounds in St Joseph. This im­mer­sive mu­si­cal ex­pe­ri­ence host­ed by Pro­duc­tion One Lim­it­ed is renowned as the biggest and longest sur­viv­ing jazz fes­ti­val in T&T.

Some­where be­tween the scorched pol­i­cy pa­pers and the bright plas­tic of cam­paign para­pher­na­lia, we for­get the women who did not raise their voic­es—but made them­selves im­pos­si­ble to ig­nore. An­gela Saro­janie Crop­per was one of them. Econ­o­mist. Lawyer. En­vi­ron­men­tal­ist. Builder of in­sti­tu­tions. The kind of woman who walked in­to a room and changed it, not by force, but by a clar­i­ty so un­flinch­ing it could feel like grace.

In­ter­na­tion­al­ly-cel­e­brat­ed band of broth­ers and so­ca am­bas­sadors Kes the Band has made his­to­ry once again—this time as the first so­ca act to sell out two Sum­mer­Stage con­certs at Cen­tral Park in New York City with­in hours of go­ing on sale.

Celebri­ty front­line pan­nist for Trinidad All Stars Steel Or­ches­tra (TAS­SO) Dane Gul­ston and award-win­ning-ca­lyp­son­ian Lord Nel­son, 94, are sched­uled to per­form at Nani­ki Bar­ba­dos Mu­sic Fes­ti­val 2025, Be­yond the Trees to­mor­row.

Odyssey of Op­u­lence was the theme for a fash­ion show on March 22 at Nanan’s Eco Tours, Ca­roni Bird Sanc­tu­ary. Held by the Krista Gabriel De­sign­er Brand (KGDB), the event cel­e­brat­ed sus­tain­able cou­ture.

The Ul­ti­mate Wed­ding and Event Con­ven­tion 2025, a free-to-at­tend event, was held at the Den­nis P Ramd­han Com­plex in Cou­va. Cou­ples be­gan ar­riv­ing as ear­ly as 8 am to ex­plore the lat­est of­fer­ings in the wed­ding in­dus­try.

Dul­cie Bho­lai reached the in­cred­i­ble mile­stone of 100 years on March 28. Born in Long­denville, Bho­lai’s jour­ney stands as a shin­ing ex­am­ple of strength, de­vo­tion, and the en­dur­ing pow­er of faith and fam­i­ly.

The joy and en­er­gy of Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day are cap­tured in these im­ages by Edi­son Boodoos­ingh at cel­e­bra­tions host­ed by the Coun­cil of El­ders at the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Em­pow­er­ment Hall in Mal­oney.

Few mem­bers of the Queen’s Hall au­di­ence of March 23 would ar­gue too heav­i­ly against the view that there was per­haps more dou­ble en­ten­dre and clever po­lit­i­cal satire in the dra­mat­ic read­ing of There­sa Awai’s De­ci­sion 2010 than en­coun­tered through­out this year’s ca­lyp­so sea­son.