Align, the lat­est pro­duc­tion by the Mar­cia Charles Dance The­atre Com­pa­ny, was held from May 2-4 at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.

It was an evening of glitz, glam­our and pure is­land pride on May 18 at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, Ma­coya, for the grand coro­na­tion of Mrs and Miss Uni­verse T&T 2025.

I It start­ed with a re­quest from France in 1999 for a Rene­gades ju­nior band to take part in a Eu­ro­pean tour. A group of pan­nists 21 years and younger was se­lect­ed for that event.

Hy­giene is not a lux­u­ry. It’s a right. In a space where ac­cess to ba­sic hy­giene can de­fine a per­son’s dig­ni­ty, one woman is on a mis­sion to make a cul­tur­al shift in how Trinidad and To­ba­go thinks about clean­li­ness, care, and com­mu­ni­ty.

Cook­ing is more than just prepar­ing food—it’s sto­ry­telling, heal­ing, cre­ativ­i­ty, and con­nec­tion served on a plate. In a bustling home that she has cre­at­ed, where the aro­ma of the kitchen min­gles with the vi­brant pres­ence of six chil­dren, chef Ar­i­anne Dy­er strikes a per­fect bal­ance in a world that many would call over­whelm­ing. A wife, moth­er, and a chef, Dy­er has called the kitchen home for as long as she can re­mem­ber, laugh­ing that her first word, point­ing at the TV screen, was “cook”.

Lu­pus is a silent bat­tle fought dai­ly by mil­lions—a chron­ic au­toim­mune dis­ease where the body’s de­fence sys­tem turns against it­self, mis­tak­en­ly at­tack­ing healthy tis­sues and or­gans. This trig­gers in­flam­ma­tion, pain, and dam­age that can strike any­where—from the skin and joints to the kid­neys, heart, lungs, brain, and blood cells.

On May 20, 2025, at Lon­don’s Tate Mod­ern, Banu Mush­taq made his­to­ry as the first Kan­na­da au­thor and In­di­an Mus­lim woman to win the In­ter­na­tion­al Book­er Prize. Her short sto­ry col­lec­tion, Heart Lamp, trans­lat­ed by Deepa Bhasthi and pub­lished by And Oth­er Sto­ries, fea­tures 12 sto­ries writ­ten over 30 years por­tray­ing the lives of women and girls in Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ties in south­ern In­dia. She is the sec­ond In­di­an au­thor to win the In­ter­na­tion­al Book­er Prize, af­ter Gee­tan­jali Shree, in 2022.

The Caribbean’s age­ing pop­u­la­tion re­quires the re­gion to move in­to a new era in how it treats its el­der­ly. Here in T&T, Dr La­vanyaku­mari Thon­dava­da es­tab­lished the Geri­atric So­ci­ety of T&T (GSTT) in Oc­to­ber 2023. Thon­dava­da is both the founder and cur­rent pres­i­dent.

Fash­ion is the heart­beat, but per­for­mance is the pulse of Ewa Afri­ka ... Con­scious Threads—an elec­tric cel­e­bra­tion of African her­itage and Caribbean re­silience on June 1 at the Winifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um, Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.

Af­ter ig­nit­ing a vi­ral storm with Done With Your Ex, Ghana­ian-British hit­mak­er MOLIY is team­ing up with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dancer and singer Glad­dest for a remix of two so­cial me­dia-dri­ven an­thems—Done With Your Ex and Shake It To The Max.

What be­gan as a pri­vate pas­sion for pho­tograph­ing mush­rooms has blos­somed in­to a sci­en­tif­ic mis­sion to raise na­tion­al aware­ness about the hid­den world of fun­gi in T&T for Jef­frey Wong Sang, 62, a long-stand­ing mem­ber of the T&T Field Nat­u­ral­ists’ Club (TTFNC).

Rave the Band will mark its ninth an­niver­sary at Side­line Sips Bar, Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, next Fri­day with a spe­cial per­for­mance that promis­es to be a cel­e­bra­tion of their mu­si­cal jour­ney.