Tues­day morn­ings at Tiffi­ni’s Re­tiree’s Sewing Club al­ways serve up a healthy dose of laugh­ter, stitch­ing, and ca­ma­raderie. With on­ly four seats avail­able, the at­mos­phere in her Curepe stu­dio is in­ti­mate, en­sur­ing that no one gets lost while mas­ter­ing a bob­bin or a back­stitch. If a stu­dent miss­es a step or for­gets an in­struc­tion, they jok­ing­ly an­nounce they are head­ed to the “naughty cor­ner”, on­ly to have a friend shout that they’ll be join­ing them.

Af­ter suc­cess­ful stag­ings in 2024 and 2025, the Pot on Point Com­mu­ni­ty Culi­nary Fes­ti­val will re­turn for this year’s Point Fortin Bor­ough Day Cel­e­bra­tions. It will be held on April 25 at the Gar­den Jew­elz Foun­da­tion in New Vil­lage.

(Cul­tur­al DMV News, Mary­land, US) In a re­gion known for its cul­tur­al depth, the Caribbean and African Women of Im­pact (CAWI) Hon­ors, held on March 22 in Sil­ver Spring, Mary­land, USA, brought to­geth­er a pow­er­ful cross-sec­tion of voic­es—bridg­ing con­ti­nents, dis­ci­plines, and lived ex­pe­ri­ences in a way that felt both in­ten­tion­al and nec­es­sary.

At a time when au­di­ences are con­stant­ly scrolling for the next clip or re­play, for­mer school teacher turned ac­tress Avion Crooks took a de­lib­er­ate­ly dif­fer­ent route: one night, one au­di­ence, no dig­i­tal af­ter­life. Her sec­ond stand-up com­e­dy pro­duc­tion, One Night On­ly… is Long Time, lived up to its name—a three-hour im­mer­sion in dis­tinct­ly Trinida­di­an hu­mour that re­ward­ed those present at the Na­pari­ma Bowl on April 9.

Riesa Ram­sa­hai-Herdé’s pas­sion to make a dif­fer­ence was shaped in her ear­ly years, where her late un­cle’s Down Syn­drome high­light­ed her fam­i­ly’s strength and the lim­its of lo­cal sup­port. Schools then fo­cused main­ly on aca­d­e­mics and failed to equip him with the ba­sic skills need­ed to live in­de­pen­dent­ly. He re­mained re­liant on loved ones through­out his life un­til he died in 2021. It was on­ly while trav­el­ling abroad that Riesa saw a dif­fer­ent re­al­i­ty. She wit­nessed peo­ple with Down Syn­drome ac­tive­ly work­ing and con­tribut­ing to so­ci­ety.

Jor­dan Al­lis­ter Woods said he has al­ways been fo­cused on health, dis­ci­pline, cre­ativ­i­ty that en­gen­ders bet­ter­ment, pro­duc­tive op­por­tu­ni­ties for young men, and be­ing an ex­em­plar.

Dur­ing this week, salt in­take needs some at­ten­tion, es­pe­cial­ly for women’s health. Salt is im­por­tant for bod­i­ly func­tions, but con­sum­ing too much can af­fect health long-term. As women, our salt in­take is im­por­tant when it comes to man­ag­ing high blood pres­sure, heart health, hor­mon­al bal­ance and main­tain­ing well­ness at every stage in life.

WE Au­to, along with Pro­fes­sion­al Garage Ltd, will be help­ing read­ers bet­ter un­der­stand com­mon ve­hi­cle is­sues and how to ad­dress them, to stay safe on the road.

When­ev­er Ash­ley Gon­salves drops a child in­to her pool, par­ents flinch. Some turn away be­fore the child even hits the wa­ter. Known to her lit­tle swim­mers as “Aun­tie Ash­ley,” the sur­vival swim coach stays calm, guid­ing them through the mo­ment that can turn fear in­to con­fi­dence. Her ses­sions sim­u­late re­al-life emer­gen­cies where the re­sponse must be in­stinc­tive. Chil­dren learn to hold their breath, roll on­to their back, and float un­til help ar­rives—a move that can save lives.

Steel & Strings is an en­ter­tain­ment pro­duc­tion launched last year with a clear man­date: to keep sea­soned mu­si­cians of di­verse gen­res vis­i­ble, ac­tive and val­ued, while de­liv­er­ing high-qual­i­ty ex­pe­ri­ences for mu­sic lovers.

As the Na­tion­al Parang As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NPATT) marks its 55th an­niver­sary this week­end, the or­gan­i­sa­tion will host an af­ter­noon of com­mem­o­ra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing a Thanks­giv­ing Ser­vice and cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tion.

Reg­gae artiste Yak­s­ta is po­si­tion­ing his lat­est sin­gle, Roar, as more than a mu­sic al re­lease, us­ing it as a plat­form to con­front what he views as grow­ing in­au­then­tic­i­ty, so­cial im­bal­ance and cul­tur­al drift across the Caribbean and be­yond.