Some­one pelt­ed a bot­tle while Spar­row was singing at a Stu­dents’ Union event at UWI’s Mona cam­pus in Ja­maica in the ear­ly 1970s, dur­ing a vi­o­lent, volatile pe­ri­od.

In the heart of Bei­jing, Chi­na, thou­sands of miles from T&T, the fa­mil­iar sounds of so­ca have found an un­like­ly new au­di­ence. Be­hind the turnta­bles is dee­jay Kirt­ly Fran­cis, bet­ter known as Se­lec­tah Kir­tis, mak­ing the city’s nightlife his newest stage.

Six months af­ter earn­ing song­writ­ing cred­its on BTS’ chart-top­ping ARI­RANG al­bum, Trinidad and To­ba­go pro­duc­er, song­writer and artiste Kur­tis Wells has reached an­oth­er Bill­board sum­mit, this time as a record­ing artist in his own right.

For­mer so­ca and chut­ney en­ter­tain­er Car­lene Wells brought pa­trons to their feet and to the al­tar on Sep­tem­ber 26, as she staged her first ma­jor con­cert in ten years since ded­i­cat­ing her life to Christ.

Star­bucks is fac­ing a con­sumer law­suit over claims that the pro­tein drinks la­belled “sug­ar-free” on its cafe menus may ac­tu­al­ly con­tain more sug­ar than a Reese’s peanut but­ter cup.

A creamy bowl of ice cream is the ul­ti­mate com­fort, but for health-con­scious con­sumers, it fre­quent­ly clash­es with fit­ness goals. Thanks to en­tre­pre­neurs Je­re­mi­ah Cruick­shank and Je­nae-Marie Price, dessert is be­ing trans­formed from a guilty in­dul­gence in­to a de­li­cious way to reach your dai­ly pro­tein tar­gets.

In keep­ing with the adage, “you’re nev­er too old to learn,” for­mer jour­nal­ism and busi­ness com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­fes­sor Mervyn Crichlow is a tes­ta­ment to the en­dur­ing val­ue of learn­ing at every stage of life.

Crispy turkey and goat cheese em­panadas, a touch of pi­men­to caviar, and the rich deca­dence of ox­tail mac and cheese cro­quettes of­fered me­dia guests a first taste of what is to come when Dîn­er en Blanc re­turns to Port-of-Spain on No­vem­ber 14.

Fyz­abad, the birth­place of the labour move­ment, was once a bustling south­ern town where oil work­ers, shop­pers and farm­ers moved through its streets and busi­ness­es stayed open late to ser­vice those ben­e­fit­ing from Trinidad’s oil for­tunes.

There was a time when the roads through Fe­lic­i­ty were lit­tle more than tracks cut­ting be­tween fields of sug­ar cane and rice.

For many, it is of­ten a re­lief when their loved ones are dis­charged from the hos­pi­tal. But while the hos­pi­tal doors may close be­hind them, for many old­er pa­tients, the jour­ney to­wards pa­tient safe­ty has just be­gun.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, “si­nus” can mean al­ler­gies, a blocked nose, a headache or a cold. Mean­while, some­one of­fers a cough mix­ture that doesn’t work. A co-work­er rec­om­mends an­tibi­otics. An aunt has al­ready put the ket­tle on with a plan for “fever grass” mixed with a dash of al­co­hol.