Er­il Gar­cia is gen­er­al­ly not one to al­low dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances to keep her down. So when she was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer at 45, as scared as she was, she took time to process what was hap­pen­ing, then did what was nec­es­sary to get her­self back to a pos­i­tive place.

Free­town Col­lec­tive will be in the spot­light as the Bo­cas Lit Fest hosts a spe­cial edi­tion of Kaiso Con­ver­sa­tions. It comes as Bo­cas cel­e­brates

Di­vorce can be messy. Ja­son Cox has ex­pe­ri­enced it for close to four years. As a fa­ther of two boys, he has seen it neg­a­tive­ly af­fect his every­day life, so he took mat­ters in­to his own hands. He built an app called Zuko to shield his chil­dren from adult con­flict and help many oth­ers along the way.

Death is one of life’s few cer­tain­ties. We know that every life must even­tu­al­ly end, yet noth­ing tru­ly pre­pares us for the mo­ment some­one or a pet we love is gone.

Oc­to­ber is the Month of Learn­ing Dif­fi­cul­ties, but let’s change that name. How about the Month of Learn­ing Dif­fer­ent­ly? Some brains just work in unique, amaz­ing ways!

Di­vya Go­cool has al­ready dis­cov­ered some­thing that many peo­ple spend a life­time search­ing for — her voice.

The earth is the Lord’s, and the ful­ness there­of; the world, and they that dwell there­in (Psalm 24:1).

Shar­da Patasar has placed Trinidad and To­ba­go on the in­ter­na­tion­al map with her new piece, Au­dac­i­ty of Black Wa­ter. The track is in­clud­ed on Earth Ris­ing, Vol II: Mes­sages from the Pale Blue Dot, part of a three-vol­ume project com­mis­sioned by the UK arts or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ar­tan­gel. Patasar’s work stands out as a rare in­stru­men­tal orig­i­nat­ing from the Caribbean rather than In­dia—and the first sitar com­po­si­tion in the se­ries.

Some­thing mag­i­cal hap­pens when the tra­di­tion­al tan­go dance style meets so­ca, and mem­bers of the pub­lic got the chance to ex­pe­ri­ence it in Port-of-Spain.

Per­haps your clothes fit dif­fer­ent­ly and los­ing weight feels hard­er than it used to. You may even no­tice that you do not feel as strong as be­fore.

Joseph stared at the blue­print for the de­vel­op­ment, as he had done about a hun­dred times be­fore. This was his largest in­vest­ment to date, and he had to make sure that noth­ing went wrong. When com­plet­ed, it would be one of the most sought-af­ter places to live. The acres of space, the seclu­sion, the pic­turesque views along the steep, wind­ing roads, the lux­u­ri­ous fa­cil­i­ties home­own­ers could ac­cess; he had out­done him­self this time.

Chi­nese Ar­rival Day will be ob­served on Oc­to­ber 12. This year marks the 220th an­niver­sary of the ar­rival of the first group of Chi­nese mi­grants to Trinidad and To­ba­go, with 192 mi­grants aboard the For­ti­tude in 1806.