We are now ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the won­der-filled age of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI)—com­put­er sys­tems de­vel­oped to per­form tasks that typ­i­cal­ly re­quire hu­man in­tel­li­gence, with ap­pli­ca­tions that have rev­o­lu­tionised the way we ac­cess so­lu­tions to dai­ly life chal­lenges. Through AI, sig­nif­i­cant break­throughs are be­ing wit­nessed in al­most every in­dus­try.

Dr Sav­it­ri Ram­per­sad’s May 22 launch of Steel­pan Vi­bra­tions: Un­lock­ing the Hu­man Mind in­tro­duced a NA­PA au­di­ence to a nov­el, thought-pro­vok­ing view of the steel­pan’s unique val­ue.

At 19 years old, Aamir Khan has al­ready fought a bat­tle that many peo­ple will nev­er have to imag­ine.

The sub­jec­tiv­i­ty of art knows no bounds, a les­son that Jared Hunte learned when he was just about 15 years old.

Kervin Solomon is a mod­ern-day ex­am­ple of David, who de­feat­ed Go­liath as de­scribed in bib­li­cal times, and of a young boy who achieved his dreams by de­sign.

At one point in lo­cal his­to­ry, cin­e­mas stood as the undis­put­ed hall­marks of en­ter­tain­ment and leisure.

John Thomas, who is known for his su­perb op­er­at­ic Broad­way mu­si­cals, will present an­oth­er of his mas­ter­pieces, ti­tled Show­time, at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s. The pro­duc­tion, which will run to­mor­row and Sun­day, promis­es to be a grand night of opera.

Ja­maican reg­gae artiste Yak­s­ta has of­fi­cial­ly re­leased his sopho­more al­bum, The Mi­cro­phone Saved Me, de­liv­er­ing what may be his most per­son­al and un­com­pro­mis­ing body of work to date.

Car­ni­val rhythms fused with sport­ing en­er­gy as the TRIBE group of bands pre­sent­ed their 2027 cos­tume se­lec­tion in World Cup style at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, bring­ing the foot­ball fren­zy to pa­trons in an ac­tion-packed spec­ta­cle of colour and ex­cite­ment.

We see them un­der the bright lights, killing it on stage and dom­i­nat­ing our air­waves. In their down­time, just like you and me, they en­joy pop­ping in their head­phones or lis­ten­ing to their favourite songs on a long dri­ve. It is easy to for­get that the peo­ple who make the sound­tracks to our lives have their own per­son­al sound­tracks too.

Steve Dookhie may be a bar­ber by day, but in his spare time he crafts de­sign­er fire­sides, or chul­has, for cook­ing cur­ried duck, car­ry­ing his cre­ations to com­pe­ti­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go, where un­usu­al de­signs have be­come his trade­mark.

For any­one nav­i­gat­ing the bustling con­crete jun­gle of Port-of-Spain, the hunt for the per­fect meal is not just rou­tine.