Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed, through its Women’s Em­pow­er­ment mag­a­zine, host­ed a spe­cial din­ner on April 3 to cel­e­brate the cul­mi­na­tion of its Nisaa of Is­lam se­ries, fea­tur­ing in­spir­ing Mus­lim women from T&T. The event, held at GM Labs, brought to­geth­er par­tic­i­pants from both Sea­son 1 and Sea­son 2 of the se­ries.

Trinida­di­an vo­cal­ist Le­An­dra Head will bring a sig­na­ture blend of clas­si­cal, con­tem­po­rary and Caribbean fu­sion mu­sic back to Stollmey­er’s Cas­tle with Le­An­dra Live– Strings and Voice II. The mu­si­cal show­case is set for April 26 at 7 pm and April 27 at 6 pm, of­fer­ing au­di­ences an evening of re­fined artistry in a his­toric set­ting.

From lo­cal ser­vice to re­gion­al ser­vice, Ria Boodoo is on the rise. If the name sounds fa­mil­iar, she once served in rep­re­sen­ta­tive pol­i­tics at the lo­cal gov­ern­ment lev­el as coun­cil­lor for the Ma­coya/Trinci­ty dis­trict. Her work in sus­tain­abil­i­ty hasn’t on­ly been long-stand­ing, but it is al­so her pas­sion.

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).

“Cre­ativ­i­ty and the act of cre­ativ­i­ty are hu­man-on­ly skills. We have been cre­at­ing ever since cave draw­ings.” Tes­sa Alexan­der (Tes­sa Alexan­der Sloane-Seale) is a pro­fes­sion­al artist by trade, but her work, along with the na­ture and sub­ject mat­ters of her art, has made her a his­to­ri­an, a so­ci­ol­o­gist and a busi­ness­woman all in one.

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.

To­ba­go Fash­ion Co­da is back with a bang. Af­ter a hia­tus, the Run­way Meets Rhythm spec­tac­u­lar promis­es to be un­for­get­table.

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

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.

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.

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.