Ca­lyp­so tells sto­ries, cel­e­brates, teas­es, ar­gues and re­mem­bers. Few mod­ern per­form­ers have shown that range more vivid­ly than David Rud­der.

For some, the mere thought of can­cer is enough to send them run­ning. They may ig­nore the warn­ing signs, brush aside their sus­pi­cions and hope it all dis­ap­pears. But for Claudette Stew­art, con­fronting the pos­si­bil­i­ty head-on, lis­ten­ing to her body and hold­ing fast to un­wa­ver­ing faith are the very ac­tions that car­ried her through her jour­ney.

From a full Trin­bag­on­ian meal to Eng­lish, Asian and oth­er types in be­tween, meals can be made from scratch at Serendip­itea cof­fee shop and tea house in St Au­gus­tine.

Six tal­ent­ed young girls will grace the stage on Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 17, as they com­pete for the ti­tle of Lit­tle Miss Pleas­antville Queen 2026 at the Pleas­antville Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child; I un­der­stood as a child; I thought as a child, but when I be­came a man, I put away child­ish things.  For now we see through a glass, dark­ly, but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as al­so I am known.  And now abideth faith, hope, and char­i­ty, these three; but the great­est of these is char­i­ty."

Goa­to­ber, the an­nu­al “Fes­ti­val of Goat” is back to ex­cite food lovers for yet an­oth­er year.

Oc­to­ber 10 and Oc­to­ber 12 are aus­pi­cious days for the Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ty in this coun­try.

hen I was nine years old, my fam­i­ly lived in rur­al Blan­chisseuse, along Trinidad’s North Coast. Our house­hold con­sist­ed of my par­ents, my sis­ter, my grand­moth­er and me. At the time, my fa­ther made bar­be­cue coals, a la­bo­ri­ous process that in­volved dig­ging a large pit, burn­ing pieces of wood in­side it for sev­er­al days, and even­tu­al­ly go­ing out­side to ex­tin­guish the fire and col­lect the coal.

Through­out Oc­to­ber, WE Life & Cul­ture will share the sto­ries of breast can­cer sur­vivors, pa­tients, care­givers and oth­ers on the front­line of the fight against the dis­ease. Through their ex­pe­ri­ences, we hope to raise aware­ness, en­cour­age ear­ly de­tec­tion and re­mind our read­ers of the im­por­tance of sup­port, strength and hope.

Healthy eat­ing is of­ten as­so­ci­at­ed with ex­pen­sive in­gre­di­ents, spe­cial­i­ty prod­ucts and com­pli­cat­ed meal plans. Eat­ing well does not have to strain the house­hold bud­get. The truth is that these tips should help you bet­ter ap­proach a gro­cery shop­ping ex­pe­ri­ence to pre­pare nu­tri­tious, sat­is­fy­ing meals while spend­ing less.

Have you ever seen a car dri­ving down the road where one door or fend­er is just a slight­ly dif­fer­ent shade than the rest of the body? It is a glar­ing eye­sore that im­me­di­ate­ly screams, “This car was in an ac­ci­dent!” When you take your car in for body­work and paint­ing, you ex­pect it to come back look­ing fac­to­ry new. But achiev­ing a flaw­less, in­vis­i­ble re­pair is ac­tu­al­ly a mas­sive sci­en­tif­ic chal­lenge.

Oc­to­ber 11, 2026, the world ob­serves the In­ter­na­tion­al Day of the Girl Child un­der the ur­gent and pow­er­ful theme: “End child mar­riage and in­vest in girls’ rights!” The day serves as a vi­tal glob­al plat­form to raise aware­ness about the unique chal­lenges girls face, from gen­der-based vi­o­lence and cli­mate vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to a lack of ac­cess to ed­u­ca­tion. Yet, it is al­so a day to cham­pi­on their em­pow­er­ment and cel­e­brate the bound­less po­ten­tial that blooms when a girl’s rights are pro­tect­ed and her am­bi­tions nur­tured.