When Dr Re­bekah Shirley first set foot in Nairo­bi, Kenya, it re­mind­ed her of Trinidad, where she was raised, and Ja­maica, where her roots run deep.

Read­ing en­thu­si­asts were treat­ed to a spe­cial Evening of Tea and Read­ings on June 14 at Ho­tel Nor­mandie, host­ed by Pa­per Based Book­shop.

Pro­fes­sor Renée Cum­mings is re­defin­ing what it means to lead in the age of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI). As AI rewrites the rules of so­ci­ety, she’s mak­ing sure jus­tice, ethics, eq­ui­ty, safe­ty and re­spon­si­ble gov­er­nance aren’t left be­hind.

At just 17 years old, Bar­ba­di­an film­mak­er Trin­i­ty Rose is set­ting the in­ter­na­tion­al cre­ative world ablaze.

These phras­es are of­ten ca­su­al­ly tossed around when peo­ple face tough sit­u­a­tions—but what do they re­al­ly mean?

Aman­da Smyth writes be­tween is­lands. Born in Ire­land to a Trinida­di­an moth­er and Irish fa­ther, she be­longs to both places—and nei­ther en­tire­ly. Now based in Leam­ing­ton Spa, she teach­es cre­ative writ­ing at Ar­von, Sky­ros in Greece, and Coven­try Uni­ver­si­ty.

At 11 years old, Sian Cuffy-Young was bathing on the beach in Ch­aguara­mas, where the board­walk now stands, when a loaded di­a­per struck her in the face.

Ac­claimed writer Shani Mootoo will read from and dis­cuss her lat­est col­lec­tion of po­et­ry, Oh Wit­ness Dey! (Book*hug Press), at The Writ­ers Cen­tre, 14 Al­cazar Street, St Clair, on Tues­day at 5.30 pm. 

The T&T Pho­to­graph­ic So­ci­ety, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Da­da and Projects, re­cent­ly host­ed a pho­to walk doc­u­ment­ing the rich ta­pes­try of pub­lic art in Port-of-Spain.

On June 12 at the Lloyd Best In­sti­tute of The Caribbean in Tu­na­puna, the 24th so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion by artist Kei­th Ward, Tints Tones and Tex­tures, opened to the pub­lic.

Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed re­cent­ly part­nered with Unit­ed Way to im­prove the phys­i­cal and learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment at Suc­cess Laven­tille Sec­ondary School.

Iere The­atre Pro­duc­tion trans­port­ed au­di­ences to the 1970s with a pow­er­ful re-en­act­ment of the life of leg­endary chut­ney singer Sun­dar Popo at Na­pari­ma Bowl, San Fer­nan­do, from June 5 to 8.