East­er Sun­day is fi­nal­ly here! It’s a joy­ful cel­e­bra­tion with dif­fer­ent de­li­cious foods af­ter weeks of Lent. Lent is a deeply sig­nif­i­cant sea­son in the Chris­t­ian cal­en­dar. Lent is a 40-day pe­ri­od of re­flec­tion, sac­ri­fice, and spir­i­tu­al dis­ci­pline ob­served by many Chris­tians in prepa­ra­tion for East­er. The usu­al type of fast­ing is giv­ing up meat or oth­er types of food. To pre­vent overindulging af­ter re­stric­tions dur­ing East­er, it’s im­por­tant to fo­cus on shift­ing the mind­set and idea of “good” and “bad” food. The goal is to pre­vent the feel­ing of guilt, overeat­ing and phys­i­cal dis­com­fort that might arise dur­ing this hol­i­day. As women, we may have more crav­ings, de­pend­ing on how our hor­mones are reg­u­lat­ing. Our fo­cus needs to be on a bal­anced ap­proach, health and well-be­ing, while ful­ly en­joy­ing East­er.

If teenage Lisa-Marie Brown had it her way and fol­lowed her first love, she would like­ly be an al­ter­na­tive rock mu­sic artiste tour­ing some far-flung cor­ner of the globe, prob­a­bly with an al­bum or two to her name. Grow­ing up in a house­hold filled with the sounds of church choirs and fam­i­ly singers, mu­sic was her en­tire world. By 16, she was the lead singer of the lo­cal al­ter­na­tive band Mor­ris Can Be Con­tact­ed, a quirky name plucked straight from a news­pa­per’s clas­si­fied sec­tion. “It felt like I was liv­ing my dream,” she rem­i­nisces. “I loved be­ing on stage, I loved re­hearsals, and I loved the en­er­gy of cre­at­ing some­thing to­geth­er every week.”

Mor­gan Lewis was di­ag­nosed with autism at the age of 19, and has been for­tu­nate enough to have had a cir­cle who un­der­stood and gave her the sup­port she need­ed, even pri­or to her di­ag­no­sis. A lit­tle over a decade lat­er, she is get­ting ready to com­plete a first de­gree in so­cial work with a mi­nor in psy­chol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine cam­pus, with the hope of of­fer­ing the same type of sup­port, but from a pro­fes­sion­al per­spec­tive.

The yel­low poui blooms un­der grey skies, sur­viv­ing Sa­hara dust and dry sea­son rain, as East­er ar­rives af­ter the hush of Eid and the colour of Phag­wa. And what a sea­son it is to sur­vive.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Cae­sare­an Aware­ness Net­work (ICAN) has des­ig­nat­ed April as In­ter­na­tion­al Ce­sare­an Aware­ness Month (ICAM).

These im­ages cap­ture qui­et, joy­ful and re­flec­tive mo­ments as women take part in sa­cred ob­ser­vances dur­ing Holy Week, from the solemn pro­ces­sion of Palm Sun­day to the prayer­ful jour­ney of the Sta­tions of the Cross. Each frame re­flects de­vo­tion, strength, and rev­er­ence, as faith is ex­pressed through tra­di­tion, com­mu­ni­ty, and per­son­al re­flec­tion.

T&T pro­duc­er and singer-song­writer Kur­tis “Lon­don Fu­ture” Wells feels grate­ful and ec­sta­t­ic af­ter work­ing with Ko­re­an megas­tars BTS. He co-wrote two songs on their lat­est al­bum, ARI­RANG.

This Good Fri­day, one young man takes on the role of Je­sus. And as he car­ries the cross, he car­ries with him not just a role, but the faith of an en­tire com­mu­ni­ty.

So­ca star De­stra Gar­cia stepped in­to a dif­fer­ent mu­si­cal and spir­i­tu­al space last week­end when she staged her gospel con­cert Re­flec­tions at Queen’s Hall, of­fer­ing au­di­ences an evening cen­tred on faith, tes­ti­mo­ny and vo­cal ex­pres­sion.

Amid a year marked by can­celled jazz events and tight­en­ing fund­ing, the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val is chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course—one de­fined not by re­treat, but by rein­ven­tion.

Stan­dard Two and Three stu­dents from the Jern­ing­ham Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School in Ch­agua­nas got the chance of a life­time dur­ing a field trip to To­ba­go re­cent­ly.

Raised in Riv­er Es­tate, Diego Mar­tin, vi­o­lin­ist Mar­cus Nel­son, known pro­fes­sion­al­ly as Mar­quis Musiq, has trans­formed mod­est be­gin­nings in­to an in­ter­na­tion­al per­form­ing ca­reer.