Na­pari­ma Bowl is set to come alive with the sounds, flavours and art of Trinidad and To­ba­go on April 12, as the Crème Brûlée Fes­ti­val of Arts and Mu­sic re­turns for its sec­ond stag­ing. This time, the show will ho­n­our the late, leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Win­ston “The Mighty Shad­ow” Bai­ley.

The low, un­mis­tak­able rum­ble of V8 en­gines rolled across the Brent­wood Mall car park in Ch­agua­nas on Sun­day, as a care­ful­ly cu­rat­ed col­lec­tion of clas­sic cars trans­port­ed vis­i­tors back to the gold­en age of mo­tor­ing. Be­neath the af­ter­noon sun, chrome gleamed and pol­ished body­work re­flect­ed not just pride of own­er­ship, but a shared rev­er­ence for a by­gone era.

In 1994, Pel­ham God­dard was award­ed the Hum­ming­bird Medal (Sil­ver), and in 2019, he re­ceived a Na­tion­al and Aca­d­e­m­ic Hon­orary Doc­tor­ate from The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Trinidad.

Crossover singer Sasha Melody is turn­ing heads with a fresh twist on her hit sin­gle Mix You Up. The Car­ni­val 2026 re­lease brings a live­ly chut­ney remix that fus­es fete-bub­bling so­ca en­er­gy with the rich har­monies of In­do-Caribbean mu­sic, re­flect­ing the vi­brant cul­tur­al ta­pes­try that has shaped her artistry.

Af­ter an un­for­get­table week­end of au­di­tions, 18 con­tenders have ad­vanced to the semi­fi­nal of the Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam 2026, fol­low­ing pow­er­ful per­for­mances from over 70 per­for­mance po­ets from across Trinidad and To­ba­go. The se­lect­ed po­ets will per­form at the Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam semi­fi­nal, on Sun­day, March 29, at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um.

The Shi­va Gana Or­gan­i­sa­tion wel­comed the Hin­du New Year with a street pro­ces­sion along Mon Plaisir Road in Cunu­pia on March 19. The pro­ces­sion moved from the home of Pun­dit Narindra Ma­haraj to the Pun­dit Sim­boo­dath Misir Ashram Cam­poo Shi­va Mandir.

When Mar­sha Mas­si­ah was five years old, her moth­er had a chal­lenge. She was read­ing so many La­dy­bird Books that her moth­er had to ask her to slow down, or she risked run­ning out of mon­ey. That young la­dy with an ex­tra­or­di­nary ap­petite for read­ing has be­come the lead­ing fig­ure be­hind the Brook­lyn Caribbean Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val (BCLF) - a lit­er­ary event based in New York every Sep­tem­ber that wel­comes the top Caribbean writ­ers of the year to the Big Ap­ple.

Award-win­ning au­thor Jonathan Cum­ber­batch has re­leased Pa­rade, the fi­nal in­stal­ment of his po­et­ic tril­o­gy that charts a deeply per­son­al and pro­found­ly emo­tion­al mod­ern Caribbean ex­pe­ri­ence.

Aman­da Jar­dine be­lieves fi­nan­cial in­de­pen­dence pro­vides women with pro­tec­tion, choice, dig­ni­ty and long-term re­silience. And she is cham­pi­oning the cause to help pre­vent them from ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­for­tu­nate sit­u­a­tions that can arise with­out it.

Ear­li­er in WE, you were in­tro­duced to au­thor Yvonne Bobb-Smith. Now, Ira Math­ur takes a look at her mem­oir and the jour­ney that led to her putting pen to pa­per and fi­nal­ly telling her sto­ry.

Many of us ei­ther par­tic­i­pat­ed in fast­ing dur­ing the month of Ra­madan or are aware of it and have been on a type of fast at some point in their life. Eid is a time for cel­e­bra­tion. For women, I’d like to fo­cus on reg­u­lat­ing our eat­ing habits and re­turn­ing to reg­u­lar meals af­ter on­ly eat­ing with­in cer­tain hours and fast­ing from dawn to sun­set. Due to this, the temp­ta­tion to in­dulge in rich fes­tive foods might in­crease or might be dif­fi­cult at first, but then re­turn to nor­mal over time and even lead to over-in­dulging as hor­mones be­come ir­reg­u­lar.

It’s the ca­su­al kind that slips from the tongue in po­lite con­ver­sa­tion, but the deep, all-con­sum­ing grate­ful­ness that comes from hav­ing faced a mo­ment when every­thing could have changed.