For 36 years, the Ajeet Praim­s­ingh Mere Desh cel­e­bra­tions have served as a vi­brant plat­form for pre­serv­ing and pro­mot­ing In­di­an cul­ture in Trinidad and To­ba­go, while in­creas­ing­ly plac­ing em­pha­sis on en­sur­ing younger gen­er­a­tions em­brace tra­di­tion­al art forms.

Ever since so­cial me­dia shone a spot­light on his busi­ness, “Chow Me”, two weeks ago, peo­ple have been voic­ing their opin­ions. Some laughed. “Broth­er man, I can make that in my kitchen for $20.”

Sushi is tra­di­tion­al­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the del­i­cate bal­ance of fresh fish, vine­gared rice and sub­tle sea­son­ing, but this Caribbean-in­spired twist brings a bold shift in flavour while keep­ing the craft in­tact. By pair­ing jerk-spiced chick­en with sweet ripe man­go, creamy av­o­ca­do and crisp cu­cum­ber, this fu­sion roll blends Japan­ese tech­nique with the heat, sweet­ness and vi­bran­cy of is­land cook­ing. It’s an in­ven­tive take that feels both fa­mil­iar and new, prov­ing that sushi can trav­el well be­yond its ori­gins with­out los­ing its iden­ti­ty.

On May 20, every year we cel­e­brate World Bee Day, so it was on­ly nat­ur­al and fit­ting that the in­au­gur­al Hon­ey Fest be in­tro­duced on the same day to pay homage to bees and their eco­log­i­cal im­pact on our world and their pri­ma­ry pro­duce—hon­ey.

For gen­er­a­tions of Ch­agua­nas res­i­dents, the name “Nick” has meant more than a sand­wich shop. It has be­come part of the town’s mem­o­ry, a road­side in­sti­tu­tion where sto­ries, recipes and rou­tine have sur­vived decades of change.

In the lat­ter part of the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, a ten-year-old boy named Seer­atan left In­dia for Trinidad un­der the in­den­ture­ship sys­tem—one of thou­sands who crossed the Kala­pani (ocean voy­age) in­to an un­cer­tain fu­ture on the sug­ar cane plan­ta­tions.

The Hin­du Prachaar Kendra cel­e­brat­ed its 33rd Gan­ga Dhaaraa cel­e­bra­tions at the Mar­i­anne Riv­er in Blan­chisseuse on Sun­day.

Hid­den deep with­in the folds of Trinidad’s North­ern Range, the vil­lage of Morne La Croix car­ries a lega­cy shaped by re­silience, iso­la­tion and gen­er­a­tions of peo­ple who learned to sur­vive from the land and sea around them.

With all the Sa­ha­ran dust in the at­mos­phere, snor­ing is prob­a­bly, to­geth­er with cough­ing and/or a run­ny nose, the most com­mon com­plaint I see nowa­days. Is there a re­la­tion­ship? There sure is. It is one of the few rea­sons I ac­cept for chil­dren wear­ing that mon­stros­i­ty, the mask, that was forced up­on us dur­ing COVID. It does pro­tect the nose against ir­ri­ta­tion and block­age.

May is Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month. The phrase ap­pears on posters, in cam­paigns and across so­cial me­dia. It is well-in­ten­tioned and nec­es­sary. But if we are hon­est, aware­ness alone has not tak­en us very far.

Dur­ing dif­fi­cult times, we of­ten cling to hope and search for an­chors who re­mind us that bet­ter days are ahead. As this year’s Glob­al Hero of Hope, Mar­sha Daniel Joseph is do­ing ex­act­ly that, one in­spir­ing step at a time.

Glob­al cli­mate sci­ence met Caribbean re­al­i­ty in a gath­er­ing that car­ried both sym­bol­ic and sci­en­tif­ic weight, in Nas­sau last week.