Have you ever no­ticed how some cars look bril­liant­ly glossy for years, while oth­ers quick­ly de­vel­op a dull, peel­ing, or fad­ed ap­pear­ance? When it comes to restor­ing your ve­hi­cle af­ter an ac­ci­dent or sim­ply giv­ing it a fresh new look to re­flect your style, the qual­i­ty of the paint used is just as im­por­tant as the skill of the painter. As a ve­hi­cle own­er, un­der­stand­ing ex­act­ly what goes on­to your car’s ex­te­ri­or em­pow­ers you to pro­tect your in­vest­ment and main­tain its re­sale val­ue.

For Mar­cel Williams, mu­sic and min­istry go hand-in-hand. The singer-song­writer wants his songs to in­stil hope in oth­ers and bring joy to all who lis­ten.

One com­mon ques­tion women ask dur­ing preg­nan­cy is: “Can I pre­vent preeclamp­sia?” It’s an im­por­tant ques­tion—es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing Preeclamp­sia Aware­ness Month, an ini­tia­tive led by or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the Preeclamp­sia Foun­da­tion to im­prove ed­u­ca­tion and out­comes for moth­ers and ba­bies.

On any giv­en day, you might find Shelly-Ann Aqui Solomon at home rock­ing her grand­son to sleep on her lap. That is ex­act­ly how our in­ter­view be­gan. It re­flects her life as a moth­er and grand­moth­er, one where her ca­reer is built around her fam­i­ly, rather than squeez­ing them in­to the mar­gins of a work­space. An award-win­ning busi­ness strate­gist, speak­er, and men­tor with over 27 years of ex­pe­ri­ence, her mis­sion is to give oth­ers - par­tic­u­lar­ly women - that same sense of free­dom.

Be­com­ing a moth­er for many women is an ex­cit­ing and nerve-wrack­ing jour­ney, with child­birth be­ing a ma­jor source of an­tic­i­pa­tion and anx­i­ety. Gen­tly guid­ing moth­ers-to-be and new moth­ers to and through child bear­ing is the job of a mid­wife, a trained health­care pro­fes­sion­al who pro­vides med­ical care, emo­tion­al sup­port and ed­u­ca­tion to moth­ers and new­borns. Mid­wives stand be­side women dur­ing some of the most vul­ner­a­ble, trans­for­ma­tive and in­ti­mate mo­ments in their lives, act­ing as ush­ers for one of hu­man­i­ty’s most pro­found ex­pe­ri­ences: bring­ing new life in­to the world.

With over 360,000 views and count­ing, Lisa Fos­ter’s ren­di­tion of the gospel song God Will Work It Out has be­come an on­line hit. Her mes­meris­ing voice is the un­de­ni­able star of the show; so much so that view­ers al­most for­get she is stand­ing on crutch­es. Cap­tured dur­ing a ser­vice at the D’Abadie Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist Church on May 2, the footage has gar­nered more than 1,300 re­ac­tions and 1,400 com­ments since hit­ting Face­book the fol­low­ing day.

June Am­ing re­mem­bers Sat­ur­day morn­ings at the cor­ner shop with her moth­er and sis­ters. Each child could choose a choco­late bar and a book. Her sis­ters usu­al­ly picked ti­tles like Judy for Girls. Am­ing went straight for Nod­dy. Soon she was fill­ing copy­books with sto­ries of her own, per­form­ing them for her child­hood friend Char­maine at mock “book launch­es.”

For more than two decades, chut­ney star Adesh Sama­roo has re­mained one of the most recog­nis­able voic­es in In­do-Caribbean mu­sic, and this month the en­ter­tain­er is tak­ing his en­er­getic per­for­mances to au­di­ences across the Nether­lands.

Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin has de­clared that the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) is un­der­go­ing an op­er­a­tional shake-up, as she of­fi­cial­ly launched NA­PA Jazz Fu­sion 2026.

Bud­ding play­wright, teacher and lec­tur­er Del­lon Math­i­son is bring­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al sto­ry with a Caribbean twist to the stage with his lat­est pro­duc­tion, Mas and Melody, a re-imag­in­ing in­spired by Dis­ney’s Beau­ty and the Beast.

In­fer­til­i­ty is far more com­mon in Trinidad and To­ba­go than most peo­ple re­alise, af­fect­ing an es­ti­mat­ed one in six cou­ples. Yet it re­mains one of the coun­try’s most qui­et­ly en­dured chal­lenges. Be­hind closed doors, many nav­i­gate un­cer­tain­ty, mis­in­for­ma­tion and stig­ma with lit­tle sup­port in an at­tempt to grow their fam­i­lies. For the past 20-plus years, The Trinidad and To­ba­go IVF and Fer­til­i­ty Cen­tre (TTIVF) has sup­port­ed count­less fam­i­lies strug­gling with in­fer­til­i­ty by help­ing them con­ceive the pre­cious gift of new life. The cen­tre has achieved sev­er­al ma­jor feats, in­clud­ing the birth of the first IVF ba­by in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean in 1997 and the de­liv­ery of more than 3,000 ba­bies since 2008.

Fire­stone Restau­rant of Brent­wood brought Mex­i­can flair to Ch­agua­nas with an ex­tend­ed Cin­co de Mayo cel­e­bra­tion on May 5.