On March 28, ace mu­si­cian, com­pos­er, arranger and pro­duc­er Dr Pel­ham God­dard gave pa­trons a night to re­mem­ber when he and a cadre of mu­si­cal col­lab­o­ra­tors cel­e­brat­ed his jour­ney in the pro­duc­tion Echoes of an Era: Friend­ship at Kafe Blue in Port-of-Spain.

T&T pro­duc­er and singer-song­writer Kur­tis “Lon­don Fu­ture” Wells feels grate­ful and ec­sta­t­ic af­ter work­ing with Ko­re­an megas­tars BTS. He co-wrote two songs on their lat­est al­bum, ARI­RANG.

This Good Fri­day, one young man takes on the role of Je­sus. And as he car­ries the cross, he car­ries with him not just a role, but the faith of an en­tire com­mu­ni­ty.

So­ca star De­stra Gar­cia stepped in­to a dif­fer­ent mu­si­cal and spir­i­tu­al space last week­end when she staged her gospel con­cert Re­flec­tions at Queen’s Hall, of­fer­ing au­di­ences an evening cen­tred on faith, tes­ti­mo­ny and vo­cal ex­pres­sion.

Amid a year marked by can­celled jazz events and tight­en­ing fund­ing, the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val is chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course—one de­fined not by re­treat, but by rein­ven­tion.

De­part­ing US-born UWI De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts (DC­FA) eth­no­mu­si­col­o­gist, Prof Jean­nine Re­my, was treat­ed to a spec­tac­u­lar demon­stra­tion of the in­struc­tion she has de­liv­ered over the years when the UWI Arts Per­cus­sion En­sem­ble paid trib­ute to her on March 28.

Stan­dard Two and Three stu­dents from the Jern­ing­ham Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School in Ch­agua­nas got the chance of a life­time dur­ing a field trip to To­ba­go re­cent­ly.

For three years, Sachin Ram­lochan called his bar­ber shop home—sleep­ing in a small room af­ter long, ex­haust­ing days on his feet, cut­ting hair from morn­ing to night, de­ter­mined to sur­vive de­spite be­ing home­less.

What be­gan dur­ing child­hood as a form of ther­a­py for Ja­son Granger even­tu­al­ly turned in­to a long-last­ing pas­sion. Fo­cused on main­tain­ing au­then­tic­i­ty and cre­at­ing a sense of com­mu­ni­ty, the Ari­ma au­thor is now steadi­ly build­ing his cat­a­logue chap­ter by chap­ter.

For over a decade, mem­bers of Mil­waz Pro­duc­tions have been en­gaged in ex­pe­ri­en­tial study of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture, with a strong fo­cus on Shake­speare­an ed­u­ca­tion – the re­al­i­sa­tion of a dream for founder Janei­ka Tu­dor-Bap­tiste. The com­pa­ny has en­gaged stu­dents and teach­ers through per­for­mances, adap­tions and work­shops, and has made use of every op­por­tu­ni­ty to gain in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ence to strength­en its abil­i­ty to achieve its mis­sion of reignit­ing the pas­sion for Shake­speare and lit­er­ary arts in Caribbean class­rooms.

Si­mone Leid is a Trinida­di­an po­et and gen­der ad­vo­cate whose writ­ing re­flects a deep en­gage­ment with gen­der and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment work across the Caribbean. Her po­ems come from the women she meets and the con­di­tions she en­coun­ters in her work.

As a gy­nae­col­o­gist, one of the most fre­quent con­cerns I hear from young women re­volves around ir­reg­u­lar pe­ri­ods. While oc­ca­sion­al vari­a­tions in the men­stru­al cy­cle can be com­plete­ly nor­mal—es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing ado­les­cence or times of stress—per­sis­tent ir­reg­u­lar­i­ty is of­ten the body’s way of sig­nalling that some­thing deep­er may be go­ing on. One of the most com­mon un­der­ly­ing caus­es is Poly­cys­tic Ovary Syn­drome, or PCOS.