Guardian Me­dia launched its new ini­tia­tive, Read To­day, Lead To­mor­row, on World Read Aloud Day, Feb­ru­ary 5. Sev­er­al schools par­tic­i­pat­ed, and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from var­i­ous or­gan­i­sa­tions took time to read to pupils across the coun­try.

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

The Jaipur Lit fest is over and we are now in Kash­mir. I came here last with my par­ents and it’s worth go­ing back to a col­umn I wrote then.

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

His hit sin­gle The Great­est Bend Over con­tin­ues to dom­i­nate Ap­ple Mu­sic’s top songs from T&T. The song has earned him a se­mi-fi­nal­ist po­si­tion in the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­ons sched­uled to take place at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA) to­day.

Kristi­na James con­tin­ues to rise. The reign­ing Miss Grand Trinidad and To­ba­go 2024 and win­ner of the Miss Grand Voice In­ter­na­tion­al 2024 is a se­mi-fi­nal­ist in the Youth So­ca Cham­pi­on 2025.

De­fend­er. Pro­tec­tor. Cham­pi­on. All are poignant ways to de­scribe ANSA McAL Lau­re­ate Dr Ay­o­dele Dal­gety-Dean who has spent a decade serv­ing Guyanese women, chil­dren, and mi­grants.

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.

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.”