Aman­da Jar­dine be­lieves fi­nan­cial in­de­pen­dence pro­vides women with pro­tec­tion, choice, dig­ni­ty and long-term re­silience. And she is cham­pi­oning the cause to help pre­vent them from ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­for­tu­nate sit­u­a­tions that can arise with­out it.

Many of us ei­ther par­tic­i­pat­ed in fast­ing dur­ing the month of Ra­madan or are aware of it and have been on a type of fast at some point in their life. Eid is a time for cel­e­bra­tion. For women, I’d like to fo­cus on reg­u­lat­ing our eat­ing habits and re­turn­ing to reg­u­lar meals af­ter on­ly eat­ing with­in cer­tain hours and fast­ing from dawn to sun­set. Due to this, the temp­ta­tion to in­dulge in rich fes­tive foods might in­crease or might be dif­fi­cult at first, but then re­turn to nor­mal over time and even lead to over-in­dulging as hor­mones be­come ir­reg­u­lar.

The pub­lic is be­ing urged to en­gage in reg­u­lar eye screen­ings as an es­sen­tial tool to en­sure the health of their eyes. The Na­tion­al Eye Sur­vey of Trinidad and To­ba­go (2013-2014) found that un­cor­rect­ed re­frac­tive eye con­di­tions are the lead­ing cause of mod­er­ate to se­vere vi­sion im­pair­ment in adults. Re­frac­tive er­rors are caused by the im­prop­er fo­cus­ing of light on­to the reti­na. It of­ten man­i­fests as blurred vi­sion, and can be cor­rect­ed with eye­glass­es, lens­es or surgery.

When Mar­sha Mas­si­ah was five years old, her moth­er had a chal­lenge. She was read­ing so many La­dy­bird Books that her moth­er had to ask her to slow down, or she risked run­ning out of mon­ey. That young la­dy with an ex­tra­or­di­nary ap­petite for read­ing has be­come the lead­ing fig­ure be­hind the Brook­lyn Caribbean Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val (BCLF) - a lit­er­ary event based in New York every Sep­tem­ber that wel­comes the top Caribbean writ­ers of the year to the Big Ap­ple.

Preg­nan­cy is a re­mark­able jour­ney, but it is al­so a time when care­ful med­ical at­ten­tion is es­sen­tial to pro­tect both moth­er and ba­by. An­te­na­tal care is not just about rou­tine vis­its—it is about time­ly screen­ing, ear­ly de­tec­tion, and pre­ven­tion of com­pli­ca­tions that may oth­er­wise go un­no­ticed. It’s a well-known fact that pa­tients with no an­te­na­tal care have in­creased mor­bid­i­ty and mor­tal­i­ty.

Af­ter an un­for­get­table week­end of au­di­tions, 18 con­tenders have ad­vanced to the semi­fi­nal of the Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam 2026, fol­low­ing pow­er­ful per­for­mances from over 70 per­for­mance po­ets from across Trinidad and To­ba­go. The se­lect­ed po­ets will per­form at the Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam semi­fi­nal, on Sun­day, March 29, at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um.

At 95, Yvonne Bobb-Smith is still do­ing what she has loved since child­hood: re­flect­ing on life, telling sto­ries, and invit­ing oth­ers to think more deeply about the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

Re­tired Brazil RC School teacher, Ed­ward Ram­sumair, was ho­n­oured by close to 100 of his for­mer stu­dents at a spe­cial se­mi-for­mal black-and-white event on the school’s com­pound on Feb­ru­ary 27.

The Live­Cur­rent In­ter­na­tion­al Min­istry, led by Tri­ni-Amer­i­can First La­dy Geno­la Clark and Amer­i­can Rev. Oba­di­ah Clark, re­cent­ly ex­tend­ed heart­felt thanks to Chapel on the Hill Church’s mis­sion­ar­ies from Penn­syl­va­nia, for their col­lab­o­ra­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in the min­istry’s “beau­ti­fi­ca­tion-plus” project in Trinidad.

The Shi­va Gana Or­gan­i­sa­tion wel­comed the Hin­du New Year with a street pro­ces­sion along Mon Plaisir Road in Cunu­pia on March 19. The pro­ces­sion moved from the home of Pun­dit Narindra Ma­haraj to the Pun­dit Sim­boo­dath Misir Ashram Cam­poo Shi­va Mandir.

Ear­li­er in WE, you were in­tro­duced to au­thor Yvonne Bobb-Smith. Now, Ira Math­ur takes a look at her mem­oir and the jour­ney that led to her putting pen to pa­per and fi­nal­ly telling her sto­ry.

The 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son may be over, but some are still prais­ing The Lost Tribe mas band for one of its lat­est in­no­va­tions—a truck with an in­ter­ac­tive rhythm sec­tion. Mas­quer­aders got the chance to cre­ate their own groove with mu­sic col­lec­tive Jus Now and D Rhythm Army as they danced through the streets of Port-of-Spain, and they loved it.