To­day, the Book­shelf turns to the voice of So­journ­er Truth, who spoke up for women’s rights at a time when she had no rights at all.

The Form Two year group of Bish­op Anstey High School East in Trinci­ty host­ed the first Cake Pic­nic on March 23 with a va­ri­ety of ar­ti­san cakes in a num­ber of flavours, in­clud­ing Boston Cream, Mar­ble, Red Vel­vet, Lemon Blue­ber­ry, to name a few, on dis­play.

From Toron­to to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Dr An­drew Seep­er­sad is re­turn­ing with more than a doc­tor­ate. He is com­ing back with a sharp­ened frame­work for de­ci­sion-mak­ing, a deep­er ad­vi­so­ry lens, and a clear ar­gu­ment that in­no­va­tion in this coun­try must move be­yond talk and in­to dis­ci­plined ex­e­cu­tion.

For Ker­nal Roberts, son of leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Lord Kitch­en­er (Ald­wyn Roberts), grow­ing up in the shad­ow of a mu­si­cal ti­tan was as over­whelm­ing as it was in­spir­ing.

When Nathan Dur­gas­ingh re­ceived a pair of Guc­ci slides for his 15th birth­day, they were the on­ly gift he got that year. His friend Rhys Thomp­son sur­prised him with them dur­ing a vis­it to South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary, where his moth­er worked in the school cafe­te­ria. He was a fa­mil­iar face, of­ten stop­ping by on his free days to lend a hand. The two quick­ly bond­ed over mu­sic, es­pe­cial­ly drum­ming. Grow­ing up in Laven­tille, Nathan had lit­tle ac­cess to brand-name items, and that act of kind­ness changed his life.

Three of this coun­try’s best singers were heard in con­cert on Palm Sun­day at the Abbey at Mount St. Bene­dict. Ko­ry Mendez, Ed­ward Cum­ber­batch, and David Williams, pre­sent­ed by MW Pro­duc­tions, sang a pro­gramme of most­ly sa­cred songs, arias and en­sem­bles, which brought the ap­pre­cia­tive au­di­ence to their feet in a stand­ing ova­tion.

For bal­le­ri­na Christi­na Good­ing, dance has nev­er been just an ex­tracur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ty—it has been a con­stant, shap­ing force in her life since the age of three.

Chut­ney mu­sic star Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine is set to head­line this year’s I Am the Mu­sic Boss con­cert, shar­ing top billing with Vaib­hav Gup­ta.

For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year, Mc­Cann Port-of-Spain has ce­ment­ed its po­si­tion as the Caribbean’s lead­ing cre­ative agency, se­cur­ing more awards than any oth­er firm at the 2026 Amer­i­can Ad­ver­tis­ing Awards (Caribbean).

Just a few years ago, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) was some­thing Kur­tis Rudd ap­proached with cau­tion. Like many in Trinidad and To­ba­go, his ear­ly im­pres­sions were shaped by warn­ings about dis­rup­tion, job loss and eth­i­cal con­cerns. To­day, how­ev­er, he stands at the fore­front of a grow­ing move­ment to make AI not on­ly ac­ces­si­ble, but prac­ti­cal and em­pow­er­ing for Caribbean pro­fes­sion­als.

Fash­ion takes flight at the I am Jazz in Red con­cert which was held at Cipri­ani Labour Col­lege, Val­sayn on East­er Sun­day.

The rhyth­mic pulse of the dho­lak and the bright, metal­lic ring of the dhan­tal filled the Cou­va South Au­di­to­ri­um re­cent­ly as In­di­an Clas­si­cal mu­sic and tra­di­tion­al chut­ney shared cen­tre stage in a seam­less cul­tur­al show­case led by Dubraj Per­sad.