The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a na­tion­wide pro­gramme to as­sess the con­di­tion of more than 300 known ar­chae­o­log­i­cal sites as it races to doc­u­ment and pro­tect the coun­try’s an­cient her­itage from de­vel­op­ment and en­vi­ron­men­tal change.

The Caribbean has a very pow­er­ful cul­tur­al prod­uct, which is not be­ing ful­ly mon­e­tised to the re­gion’s ben­e­fit. Reg­gae mu­sic is in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned, while Trinidad’s Car­ni­val has been ex­port­ed around the world.

Aus­tralia stamped its dom­i­nance on glob­al crick­et, se­cur­ing its sev­enth ICC Women’s T20 World Cup ti­tle with a con­vinc­ing sev­en-wick­et de­mo­li­tion of arch-ri­vals Eng­land be­fore a record-break­ing crowd of 28,000 at Lord’s in Eng­land. En route to the fi­nal, they sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly dis­man­tled top-ranked In­dia and South Africa, show­cas­ing a blend of sea­soned vet­er­ans and elite youth primed to ex­tend their glob­al dom­i­nance for years to come.

She had her life all mapped out, ex­pect­ing her planned ca­reer to be re­alised at age 25. But un­ex­pect­ed cir­cum­stances forced An­drea Bernard to take the scenic route to be­ing called to the Bar—a route that led her to teach in Spain and Cam­bo­dia be­fore she re­turned home to be­gin her ca­reer as an at­tor­ney.

In Ju­ly 2021, in the pages of the Ja­maica Glean­er, the ques­tion was posed: Why is Cari­com Day not a na­tion­al hol­i­day through­out the Caribbean?