So­cial his­to­ri­an, fem­i­nist schol­ar and Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Gen­der, So­cial Change and De­vel­op­ment at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Rho­da Red­dock, has spent a life­time in­ter­ro­gat­ing the struc­tures that shape Caribbean so­ci­ety. Fram­ing is­sues sur­round­ing pow­er struc­tures caused by race/eth­nic­i­ty, gen­der and class has been a cen­tral fo­cal point of her life’s work, and in this ex­plo­ration, she has be­come one of the re­gion’s most for­mi­da­ble in­tel­lec­tu­al voic­es. From her base in the up­per ech­e­lons of acad­e­mia at the UWI, St Au­gus­tine and through her in­volve­ment in glob­al and lo­cal ac­tivism, she has al­so con­sis­tent­ly chal­lenged the mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion of Caribbean thought with­in glob­al acad­e­mia, in­sist­ing that the re­gion is not pe­riph­er­al but foun­da­tion­al to un­der­stand­ing mod­ern in­equal­i­ties.

At 21, Kar­lene Joseph left Trinidad for New York City to live with her fa­ther. She nev­er had a close re­la­tion­ship with her dad, and this was meant to be their time to bond. He died ten days be­fore she ar­rived. With no time to process her emo­tions, she went straight in­to sur­vival mode.

From a child­hood filled with crick­et, foot­ball, and end­less days out­doors in Fyz­abad, Shel­don Stephen’s jour­ney in­to en­tre­pre­neur­ship and event pro­duc­tion was nev­er part of a rigid plan; it was some­thing that un­fold­ed nat­u­ral­ly, shaped by en­vi­ron­ment, in­stinct, and an ear­ly dri­ve to suc­ceed.

In com­mem­o­ra­tion of World Press Free­dom Day, we hear from a vet­er­an jour­nal­ist and broad­cast­er on her ca­reer and how she’s re­mained stand­ing de­spite the many tests and pres­sures.

She has been named one of the Queen Eliz­a­beth II Com­mon­wealth Trust 100 Young Lead­ers Awardees for 2026. This award recog­nis­es 100 young change­mak­ers across the Com­mon­wealth and was launched to mark what would have been Queen Eliz­a­beth II’s 100th birth­day. For Maya, this is an­oth­er ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion in a jour­ney that has al­ready in­clud­ed the 2020 Di­ana Award and be­ing named Com­mon­wealth Young Per­son of the Year 2023.

No one ever wants to think about get­ting in­to a car ac­ci­dent. How­ev­er, men­tal­ly prepar­ing your­self for the pos­si­bil­i­ty is the ab­solute best way to pro­tect your­self if the un­ex­pect­ed ever hap­pens. If you find your­self in­volved in a col­li­sion, the sud­den shock and adren­a­line can make it dif­fi­cult to think clear­ly. Know­ing ex­act­ly what steps to take will keep you phys­i­cal­ly safe and make the sub­se­quent re­pair and in­sur­ance process­es in­fi­nite­ly smoother.

Ladies were ser­e­nad­ed and cel­e­brat­ed all night long in Clifton Hill, Point Fortin, as ZZAG­GAA Fam­i­ly host­ed its 2026 Woman Is Boss event last Wednes­day.

To­day at the Old Fire Sta­tion in Port-of-Spain, Mar­garet Bus­by, the Ghana­ian-born pub­lish­er, ed­i­tor and writer who has been a cen­tral fig­ure in Black British lit­er­ary life for half a cen­tu­ry, ap­pears in con­ver­sa­tion with Ma­ri­na Sa­landy-Brown, founder and pres­i­dent of the Bo­cas Lit Fest, on Bus­by’s new col­lec­tion, Part of the Sto­ry.

Each May, health­care pro­fes­sion­als around the world ob­serve Preeclamp­sia Aware­ness Month, a cam­paign led by or­gan­i­sa­tions such as the Preeclamp­sia Foun­da­tion. Es­tab­lished in the ear­ly 2000s, this ini­tia­tive was cre­at­ed to im­prove aware­ness, pro­mote ear­ly de­tec­tion, and re­duce the se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with this con­di­tion. The cam­paign is of­ten rep­re­sent­ed by navy and hot pink colours and a pur­ple and blue rib­bon, sym­bol­is­ing strength, ur­gency, and ma­ter­nal health ad­vo­ca­cy.

Two love sto­ries, one stage—A Deal With Dark­ness lit up the Na­pari­ma Bowl from April 17 to 19, hold­ing au­di­ences spell­bound as per­form­ers brought lo­cal folk­lore vivid­ly to life in a haunt­ing and emo­tion­al­ly charged nar­ra­tive of love, sac­ri­fice and con­se­quence.

To­ba­go’s pre­mier jazz ex­pe­ri­ence is back with re­newed en­er­gy and am­bi­tion. Beach­front Jazz 2026, host­ed by Black Two Sug­ars, con­tin­ues the is­land’s rich tra­di­tion of jazz, kick­ing off to­day at the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach & Golf Re­sort as part of the To­ba­go Jazz, Mu­sic and Golf Week­end.

On April 23, Span­ish-speak­ing em­bassies based in Port-of-Spain, co­or­di­nat­ed by the Span­ish Em­bassy, con­tin­ued their an­nu­al tra­di­tion of cel­e­brat­ing Span­ish Lan­guage Day at NALIS.