“You are blessed and high­ly favoured,” is the up­lift­ing mes­sage that award-win­ning gospel en­ter­tain­er Alyssa Joseph, 19, is shar­ing through her lat­est re­lease Fa­vor.

In a dig­i­tal age dom­i­nat­ed by Tik­Tok clips, pod­casts, stream­ers and end­less scrolling, many have been quick to de­clare tra­di­tion­al me­dia dead.

Ting-a-ling-a-ling, school bell a ring! Or maybe it’s just some­one try­ing to get Full Blown on the tele­phone. As we head in­to the sum­mer, or what T&T has re­cent­ly coined JA­VA (Ju­ly–Au­gust va­ca­tion), the lo­cal sib­ling duo have giv­en fans a taste of dance­hall style in their lat­est sin­gle No Stress, while pay­ing homage to a vet­er­an in the genre.

Es­tab­lished in 1969, St Xavier’s Pri­vate School is nes­tled on plush green ter­rain on Rich­mond Street in St Joseph, guid­ed by its mot­to: Par Ar­d­ua, Ad As­tra: With hard work we shall reach the stars.

On a day when many mark Cor­pus Christi by plant­i­ng crops and re­con­nect­ing with na­ture, one busi­ness is trans­form­ing lo­cal­ly grown pro­duce in­to nu­tri­ent-packed bev­er­ages.

This is the part­ner­ship be­tween Naven­dra Bhukhal and Aman­da Ram­lal-Bhukhal, the duo caus­ing a buzz in the South­land un­der the name Bumpy’s Bar­beque.

Pep­per sauce goes on al­most every­thing we eat in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and for some peo­ple, food with­out some spicy flavour is con­sid­ered sac­ri­lege, which is not a bad thing, be­cause pep­pers are an ex­cel­lent source of vi­t­a­mins A and C, fi­bre, folic acid and potas­si­um.

Few dish­es cap­ture the spir­it of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s beach cul­ture quite like bake and shark. Found most fa­mous­ly along the shores of Mara­cas Bay, this beloved street food com­bines crisp fried shark tucked in­side a fluffy fried “bake”, then lay­ered with an ar­ray of vi­brant sauces, chut­neys, and fresh top­pings.

Ex­change Vil­lage Mud Mandir, al­so known as the Se­wala Mandir in Cou­va, ded­i­cat­ed to Lord Shi­va, is con­sid­ered to be the longest-oc­cu­pied tem­ple in the coun­try.

Long be­fore What­sApp calls, Zoom meet­ings, satel­lite tele­vi­sion or even the in­ter­net, a voice trav­elled through space from Trinidad and reached New York.

The songs of kiskadees, wild macaws and Trinidad mot­mots still drift through the qui­et com­mu­ni­ty of Buenos Ayres.

The Michael Jack­son biopic “Michael” con­tin­ues to pull in mas­sive crowds and top en­ter­tain­ment head­lines world­wide. And right now, it has got every­body talk­ing about vi­tili­go again.