The sound of prayer, the rhythm of an­cient chants, and the qui­et sym­bol­ism of rit­u­al marked a sa­cred time for mem­bers of the Ethiopi­an Or­tho­dox Tewa­he­do Church in Trinidad and To­ba­go, as they ob­served Holy Week with cer­e­monies steeped in cen­turies-old tra­di­tion.

Born and raised in Laven­tille, for­mer Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Rod­er­ick “Chuck” Gor­don says he has a “to­ry” to tell—one aimed at build­ing men­tal re­silience and fos­ter­ing a more com­pas­sion­ate so­ci­ety. His lat­est sin­gle, Love Meh­self, de­liv­ers that mes­sage through mu­sic ground­ed in per­son­al re­flec­tion and so­cial aware­ness.

Thou­sands of mu­sic lovers con­verged on the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence on Sat­ur­day night for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed I Am the Mu­sic Boss – Di­a­mond Edi­tion, a pro­duc­tion that once again un­der­scored the en­dur­ing ap­peal of chut­ney and Bol­ly­wood fu­sion on the lo­cal en­ter­tain­ment stage.

If you are among the many peo­ple check­ing so­cial me­dia for up­dates on a gin­ger­bread house on Ana Street, this sto­ry is for you.

World Health Day was ob­served on April 7. The day serves as a glob­al cam­paign to raise aware­ness about health is­sues af­fect­ing peo­ple world­wide. Here at home, there is one doc­tor who has been play­ing her part in en­sur­ing women and peo­ple from all walks of life un­der­stand the com­plex health is­sues im­pact­ing their lives.

Nan­cy Her­rera has vi­sions of Steven Spiel­berg, to have lights in all forms of fash­ion on the Queen’s Hall stage when Meta­mor­pho­sis Dance Com­pa­ny presents Il­lu­mi­na­tion– A Jour­ney of Light and Be­com­ing on April 18 and 19. Think of his sci-fi clas­sic Close En­coun­ters of the Third Kind, in which he used in­tense, colour­ful lights and shafts of blind­ing white light to rep­re­sent the alien pres­ence. While Il­lu­mi­na­tion has noth­ing to do with ex­trater­res­tri­al be­ings, the spec­tac­u­lar use of light a la Spiel­berg would have been fas­ci­nat­ing for Her­rera.

Build­ing on the theme, Jour­ney Through Time, stu­dents at the Bish­op Anstey Trin­i­ty Col­lege East sixth form trans­formed the school’s sa­van­nah in­to an his­tor­i­cal and fu­tur­is­tic space, as the six hous­es vied for the top spots in the in­sti­tu­tion’s an­nu­al sports day on March 25.

The month of April is In­ter­na­tion­al Cae­sare­an Aware­ness Month, which places fo­cus on C-sec­tions and the im­pact they have on the health of women well af­ter a ba­by is de­liv­ered.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, we have made herbal sup­ple­ments part of our dai­ly rou­tine. Cap­sules of­ten promise quick re­sults and may lead us to think that they are safer to use. Women use them as reme­dies for men­stru­al pain, fer­til­i­ty, and hor­mone bal­ance, to name a few. The be­lief that they are nat­ur­al is mis­lead­ing and while some herbs have ben­e­fits and I rec­om­mend them in my pri­vate prac­tice, sup­ple­ments can car­ry hid­den risks that are over­looked, es­pe­cial­ly for women. The most pow­er­ful tool for main­tain­ing women’s health is prop­er nu­tri­tion.

When scrolling so­cial me­dia, a video from Cheer­ful Com­pa­ny is hard to skip. Avril’s in­fec­tious laugh­ter, KP’s fa­cial ex­pres­sions and Shinzy’s calm hu­mour draw you right in. These women have been pro­vid­ing joy and com­e­dy to the en­tire Caribbean through our screens since 2024—and they’re just get­ting start­ed.

For many peo­ple, be­ing un­healthy feels like a per­son­al fail­ure. It is not that they lack knowl­edge, but they strug­gle with con­sis­ten­cy.

As we con­tin­ue to ob­serve Autism Aware­ness, we hear from those clos­est to autists—their loved ones.