Ac­com­pa­ny­ing Ira Math­ur in the pre­sen­ta­tion of her mem­oir, Love the Dark Days, at the Jaipur Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val.

QRC Fete Roy­al will be cel­e­brat­ing its 10th an­niver­sary in style, adding Machel Mon­tano to its line-up.

Vanes­sa Headley-Brew­ster is the first fe­male arranger to cap­ture a ti­tle in the Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Con­ven­tion­al Steel Or­ches­tra cat­e­go­ry twice.

Guardian Me­dia staff mem­bers took time out to read to pri­ma­ry school pupils across the coun­try on World Read Aloud Day, Feb­ru­ary 5.

Holy Name Con­vent (Port-of-Spain) host­ed its HNC Phoenix—The Fes­ti­val fete last Sat­ur­day. The sold-out, food-in­clu­sive, cool­er ex­pe­ri­ence fea­tured per­for­mances by so­ca artistes Shal Mar­shall, Ding Dong, Farmer Nap­py and Na­dia Bat­son.

In the world’s mis­sion to find a cure for can­cer, a large sec­tion of peo­ple is left out of the equa­tion—coloured peo­ple. Ac­cord­ing to Dr Si­mone Badal, 98 per cent of the prostate can­cer cell lines (used as the first step in the par­a­digm of drug de­vel­op­ment) that are avail­able to re­searchers are Cau­casian. This leaves Caribbean peo­ple as part of a vul­ner­a­ble group.

Eti­enne Charles’ Road March in Con­cert will once again fea­ture a per­for­mance by a group of for­mer­ly in­car­cer­at­ed artistes known as Crit­i­cal Mas.

Parish­ioners from St Philip and St James RC Church re­cent­ly went on a pil­grim­age to Our La­dy of Montser­rat RC Church in Tor­tu­ga, which has been des­ig­nat­ed as a 2025 Ju­bilee Cen­tral Vic­ari­ate Sa­cred Site.

In ap­pre­ci­at­ing every­thing he re­ceived, be it good, bad or in­dif­fer­ent, in­clud­ing dai­ly bread, San­gre Grande na­tive, res­i­dent, cul­tur­al ac­tivist and ca­lyp­son­ian Er­ic Tay­lor, 65, says, “My Lord con­tin­ues to pre­pare a ta­ble be­fore me in the pres­ence of my en­e­mies.”

One of T&T’s most pro­lif­ic artists, Don­ald “Jack­ie” Hink­son, is bring­ing his draw­ings to life in a lim­it­ed se­ries of prints at Fine Art Lim­it­ed with fur­ther plans to in­tro­duce ap­par­el fea­tur­ing some of the artist’s sketch­es.

From the class­rooms of UTT, Christy Nand­lal jumped in­to the in­ter­na­tion­al world of oil and gas. Some peo­ple creep lo­cal­ly be­fore they take the leap in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, but Nand­lal took a deep breath and went for it.

If you’re ready to lead a more joy­ful and pos­i­tive life, this col­umn of­fers prac­ti­cal, ac­tion­able ad­vice root­ed in mind­set mas­tery, thought re­train­ing, and self-care prac­tices. To­geth­er, we’ll ex­plore how small but in­ten­tion­al changes can trans­form your well-be­ing and help you thrive.