A mem­oir by Guyanese-Cana­di­an au­thor Tes­sa McWatt has been named the win­ner of the award for best Caribbean book of the past year.

It is in­cred­i­bly easy to view a week­end car wash as just a cos­met­ic lux­u­ry or a chore to put off un­til next month. How­ev­er, keep­ing your ve­hi­cle metic­u­lous­ly clean—both in­side and out—is ac­tu­al­ly a high­ly crit­i­cal safe­ty mea­sure that di­rect­ly im­pacts your abil­i­ty to dri­ve de­fen­sive­ly and re­act to haz­ards.

At 72, when most peo­ple are en­joy­ing their re­tire­ment, Zi­ta Phri­day-Lewis is prepar­ing to walk across the stage and re­ceive her Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Or­gan­i­sa­tion­al Man­age­ment. In Au­gust 2027, she will grad­u­ate—near­ly a decade af­ter earn­ing her Bach­e­lor’s de­gree at 65.

Preeclamp­sia is a con­di­tion that can de­vel­op qui­et­ly dur­ing preg­nan­cy—but when symp­toms do ap­pear, they should nev­er be ig­nored. As part of Preeclamp­sia Aware­ness Month, led by or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the Preeclamp­sia Foun­da­tion, the goal is to help women recog­nise ear­ly warn­ing signs and seek care be­fore com­pli­ca­tions be­come se­vere … Im­pend­ing Eclamp­sia and Eclamp­sia.

As ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Ju­di­cial Ed­u­ca­tion In­sti­tute, Genevieve Melanie Julien sup­ports the cu­ra­tion of pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment and train­ing pro­grammes for judges and ju­di­cial of­fi­cers. As a moth­er, she has and con­tin­ues to cu­rate and im­part many lessons in val­ues, re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and re­spect.

She may be called “sis­ter,” but with­in the hal­lowed halls of Holy Name Con­vent in Port-of-Spain, Sis­ter Re­nee Hall plays a role that tran­scends the class­room– she’s a moth­er.

They say a moth­er is the on­ly per­son on Earth who can di­vide her love among five chil­dren and some­how each child still gets the whole thing. It is the world’s most de­mand­ing “nine to five”—ex­cept the clock nev­er stops and the job de­scrip­tion changes every sin­gle day.

Nali­ni Pariag is no or­di­nary woman. She’s re­ferred to as a tem­plate for love, peace and re­silience. Born and raised in Cen­tral Trinidad in Ca­roni, Sa­van­nah Road, Ch­agua­nas, she said she came from a hum­ble, mid­dle-class fam­i­ly, and grew up in a lov­ing home along­side her sis­ters and one broth­er.

Even though it is known for its turquoise, clear wa­ters and post­card-per­fect views, earn­ing it the ti­tle of the “gem of the Caribbean,” Bar­ba­dos re­cent­ly trad­ed its peace­ful sound for some­thing a bit more up­beat.

The stu­dents of the Meta­mor­pho­sis Dance Com­pa­ny (MDC) of the Caribbean School of Danc­ing (CSD) are said to be pro­gress­ing in a man­ner that gives the world a rea­son to smile.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s glob­al so­ca am­bas­sador, Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller, and his out­fit Kes The Band have de­liv­ered a ca­reer-defin­ing mo­ment, cap­ti­vat­ing in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ences with a vi­brant, cul­tur­al­ly rich de­but on NPR Tiny Desk Con­certs—one of the world’s most in­flu­en­tial live mu­sic plat­forms.

Dance­hall artiste Tim­oy “Tee­jay” Jones is us­ing his plat­form to push a mes­sage be­yond mu­sic, call­ing for uni­ty with­in Trinidad’s ex­plo­sive Trini­bad scene while deep­en­ing his con­nec­tion to the wider Caribbean.