For many, trav­el­ling the world re­mains a dis­tant dream—an ac­tiv­i­ty re­served for those with deep pock­ets. But for Shan­non Sal­ick and Zed Brady, all it took was a back­pack, a tight bud­get, and a lit­tle bold­ness to make it a re­al­i­ty.

It was more than a decade ago, but Der­ron Sandy still re­mem­bers per­form­ing his very first po­em as if it were yes­ter­day. The year was 2009, and the stage was UWe Speak, the long-run­ning open mic at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

Courts, a brand of the Uni­com­er Group, has an­nounced its ti­tle spon­sor­ship of the Caribbean Beach­food Fes­ti­val 2026, an ini­tia­tive cel­e­brat­ing Caribbean culi­nary cre­ativ­i­ty while pro­mot­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty and food se­cu­ri­ty.

Lo­cal so­ca cou­ple Bun­ji Gar­lin and Fay-Ann Lyons are of­fi­cial­ly co-own­ers of Bar­ba­dos’ newest Crop Over band, Mondé Mas, and they are ex­cit­ed.

Dozens of lawyers trad­ed their robes for aprons dur­ing the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion’s (CBA) Lawyers Could Cook event on Sat­ur­day.

Na­pari­ma Bowl is set to come alive with the sounds, flavours and art of Trinidad and To­ba­go on April 12, as the Crème Brûlée Fes­ti­val of Arts and Mu­sic re­turns for its sec­ond stag­ing. This time, the show will ho­n­our the late, leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Win­ston “The Mighty Shad­ow” Bai­ley.

The low, un­mis­tak­able rum­ble of V8 en­gines rolled across the Brent­wood Mall car park in Ch­agua­nas on Sun­day, as a care­ful­ly cu­rat­ed col­lec­tion of clas­sic cars trans­port­ed vis­i­tors back to the gold­en age of mo­tor­ing. Be­neath the af­ter­noon sun, chrome gleamed and pol­ished body­work re­flect­ed not just pride of own­er­ship, but a shared rev­er­ence for a by­gone era.

In 1994, Pel­ham God­dard was award­ed the Hum­ming­bird Medal (Sil­ver), and in 2019, he re­ceived a Na­tion­al and Aca­d­e­m­ic Hon­orary Doc­tor­ate from The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Trinidad.

The Shi­va Gana Or­gan­i­sa­tion wel­comed the Hin­du New Year with a street pro­ces­sion along Mon Plaisir Road in Cunu­pia on March 19. The pro­ces­sion moved from the home of Pun­dit Narindra Ma­haraj to the Pun­dit Sim­boo­dath Misir Ashram Cam­poo Shi­va Mandir.

At 95, Yvonne Bobb-Smith is still do­ing what she has loved since child­hood: re­flect­ing on life, telling sto­ries, and invit­ing oth­ers to think more deeply about the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

It’s the ca­su­al kind that slips from the tongue in po­lite con­ver­sa­tion, but the deep, all-con­sum­ing grate­ful­ness that comes from hav­ing faced a mo­ment when every­thing could have changed.

Preg­nan­cy is a re­mark­able jour­ney, but it is al­so a time when care­ful med­ical at­ten­tion is es­sen­tial to pro­tect both moth­er and ba­by. An­te­na­tal care is not just about rou­tine vis­its—it is about time­ly screen­ing, ear­ly de­tec­tion, and pre­ven­tion of com­pli­ca­tions that may oth­er­wise go un­no­ticed. It’s a well-known fact that pa­tients with no an­te­na­tal care have in­creased mor­bid­i­ty and mor­tal­i­ty.