On March 14, the new­ly-ap­point­ed Japan­ese Am­bas­sador to T&T Dr Aki­ma Umeza­wa host­ed this year’s Em­per­or’s Birth­day Cel­e­bra­tion Re­cep­tion at the Am­bas­sador’s res­i­dence in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, to com­mem­o­rate the 65th Birth­day of Em­per­or Naruhi­to.

The Hin­du Prachar Kendra re­cent­ly host­ed its Phag­wa Fes­ti­val at the Kendra Grounds, Raghu­nanan Road, En­ter­prise. The many tra­di­tion­al Phag­wa fea­tures were well re­ceived by the packed au­di­ence who de­light­ed in the Gu­laal play of the coloured pow­ders.

Teach­ers and stu­dents of St Joseph’s Con­vent San Fer­nan­do took part a day filled with fes­tiv­i­ties on March 18 in ho­n­our of the Feast of St. Joseph and the school’s Recog­ni­tion of Ex­cel­lence cer­e­mo­ny.

Azz­izah Mo­hammed-Ma­jeed is an ad­vo­cate for em­pow­er­ing and up­lift­ing Mus­lim women. It was an easy de­ci­sion when her hus­band, Moulana Atif Ma­jeed Su­laimani, ap­proached her with the idea of pub­lish­ing a women’s mag­a­zine.

A tes­ta­ment to re­silience, per­se­ver­ance, and tenac­i­ty, Danielle Reid’s jour­ney has been a con­tin­u­ous pur­suit of per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al growth. Raised with a strong Chris­t­ian foun­da­tion, her par­ents im­bued in her val­ues that con­tin­ue to be fun­da­men­tal.

Say­ee­da Khan has spent near­ly four decades shap­ing young minds, but even in re­tire­ment, her mis­sion to guide the next gen­er­a­tion con­tin­ues. As a for­mer teacher, vice prin­ci­pal, and prin­ci­pal, she has wit­nessed first-hand how friend­ships can be test­ed—es­pe­cial­ly in to­day’s dig­i­tal age.

The roar of the crowd, the thrill of the match—whether crick­et or foot­ball—once kept spec­ta­tors glued to the ac­tion. But to­day, the at­mos­phere has shift­ed. Fans are no longer just there for the game; they crave an ex­pe­ri­ence.

Dance is of­ten de­scribed as an art form that tran­scends bound­aries and trans­forms lives. For Zi­dane Roop­nar­ine, it did just that—lead­ing him all the way to Bei­jing, Chi­na.

Equipped with an in­domitable “sweet han,” Shan­ice George Ed­wards, a tal­ent­ed chef and en­tre­pre­neur, has loved cook­ing from a very young age. Ed­wards is the own­er of Peck­ish868, a gourmet cater­ing out­let that was found­ed from her pas­sion for cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful art from food and cre­ative­ly us­ing lo­cal in­gre­di­ents.

This Sun­day, as part of our Book­shelf se­ries on no­table women writ­ers, we step in­to the taut, un­flinch­ing world of Lu­cille Clifton, the Black Amer­i­can po­et who carved a space for qui­et re­sis­tance in con­tem­po­rary lit­er­a­ture.

A folk dance troupe from Ra­jasthan, In­dia, re­ceived wide­spread praise and stand­ing ova­tions for their per­for­mance at the Lax­mi Narayan Tem­ple in Freeport on Wednes­day.

Al­ways the in­evitable cry of first-timers who ac­com­pa­ny me on my sam­pling trips in the Bon Ac­cord La­goon. On my fre­quent vis­its to the sea­grass beds in To­ba­go’s south­west, tur­tles are some of the more promi­nent guests, un­mis­tak­able by their re­mark­able speed un­der­wa­ter or their cau­tious heads peek­ing above the sur­face.