The art ex­hi­bi­tion Kvi­ta The Vi­sion­ary’s Last Gift opened last Sat­ur­day at the Soft Box Gallery on Al­cazar Street in Port-of-Spain. The ex­hi­bi­tion will run from un­til June 6.

In a re­gion­al con­text where nightlife and en­ter­tain­ment have tra­di­tion­al­ly been the purview of male se­lec­tors, pro­mot­ers and cu­ra­tors, a new move­ment in T&T is ask­ing a dif­fer­ent ques­tion: what hap­pens when women con­trol the sound, the space and the sto­ry? Gyal Dem, a women-cen­tred nightlife ex­pe­ri­ence cu­rat­ed by the pow­er­house team con­sist­ing of mu­sic pub­lish­ing and en­ter­tain­ment com­pa­ny Sound­line Mu­sic Caribbean founder Melanie Jones-Pow­ell (al­so known as DJ Hon­ey Co­la­da), along­side Toron­to-based Caribbean DJ Lis­sa Mon­et, has burst on­to the lo­cal scene. This team, seek­ing to fill the gap in women-led en­ter­tain­ment ex­pe­ri­ences, has launched not sim­ply an­oth­er par­ty, but a state­ment about fe­male own­er­ship, vis­i­bil­i­ty and cul­tur­al pow­er.

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.

The Walt Dis­ney World Per­for­mance Op­por­tu­ni­ty (WD­W­PO) is a mul­ti-faceted event spe­cial­ly de­signed to af­ford tal­ent­ed young artistes in­sight in­to Walt Dis­ney World.

Ja­maican dance­hall star Ma­sic­ka is no stranger to craft­ing hit songs. From top­ping re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al charts to gar­ner­ing bil­lions of streams on dig­i­tal plat­forms glob­al­ly, the award-win­ning artiste has ce­ment­ed his place as a ma­jor force with­in the genre. He has every right to be boasty.

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.

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.”

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.

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

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.

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.