Every month, I would usu­al­ly meet some women who are sur­prised by a pos­i­tive preg­nan­cy test — not be­cause they were care­less, but be­cause they mis­read the ear­ly signs. Many ex­pect preg­nan­cy to be­gin with dra­mat­ic nau­sea or a very ob­vi­ous missed pe­ri­od. In re­al­i­ty, some­times ear­ly preg­nan­cy may start qui­et­ly, with symp­toms that are sub­tle and eas­i­ly mis­tak­en for stress, hor­mon­al shifts, or an ap­proach­ing men­stru­al cy­cle. Just this week, I saw a young la­dy with a his­to­ry of poly­cys­tic ovaries who missed her pe­ri­od as per usu­al, no oth­er symp­toms, but when I did her ul­tra­sound, she was found to have a live em­bryo. Imag­ine her sur­prise.

An­gli­can Rev­erend Danielle Pon­ti­f­let’s life has al­ways been cen­tred around the church. But it took some time be­fore she un­der­stood and ac­cept­ed her call­ing—ser­vice to God as an or­dained min­is­ter, with a spe­cial em­pha­sis on so­ci­ety’s foun­da­tion.

Twelve years ago, when she opened the doors of Scrib­bles and Quills In­de­pen­dent Book­store, there were qui­et ques­tions about whether peo­ple still read and whether an in­de­pen­dent book­store could sur­vive in a dig­i­tal age. Radeyah Ali showed up any­way. What be­gan in 2014 as a deeply per­son­al refuge has since grown in­to a lit­er­ary home for read­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go - a space built on in­ten­tion, rep­re­sen­ta­tion and com­mu­ni­ty care.

Our friends at Fam­i­lies in Ac­tion con­tin­ue their fo­cus on un­der­stand­ing work­place stress. In Part I, they told us why, across Trinidad and To­ba­go, work­ers in al­most all sec­tors felt un­der pres­sure and how the line be­tween “at work” and “off du­ty” has dis­ap­peared, cre­at­ing strain and stress.

Books by fif­teen au­thors with roots in eight ter­ri­to­ries have been short­list­ed for the 2026 OCM Bo­cas Prize for Caribbean Lit­er­a­ture, spon­sored by One Caribbean Me­dia.

Dur­ing this time of fast­ing, specif­i­cal­ly Ra­madan and Lent, it is a time of prayer, re­flec­tion and close­ness with God. When ob­serv­ing this time of fast­ing, main­tain­ing health is es­sen­tial, es­pe­cial­ly for women. To en­sure the nu­tri­tion­al and hor­mon­al needs are met across all stages of life, the key theme is bal­ance.

When mas­quer­aders took to the streets in Ch­agua­nas for Car­ni­val, daz­zling in feath­ers, beads and bold colour, much of the spec­ta­cle can be traced back to the steady hands and sharp mind of 25-year-old de­sign­er Maris­sa Bridglal.

Katha Kala Sangam ob­served Saraswati Jayan­ti at the Beepath Ranch Cul­tur­al Cen­tre in Ca­paro on Feb­ru­ary 1. The event ho­n­ours the birth of Saraswati, the Hin­du god­dess of knowl­edge, mu­sic, art, speech, wis­dom and learn­ing.

Hav­ing en­tered the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch (CSM) com­pe­ti­tion as a wild card, Savi­ta Singh de­fied ex­pec­ta­tions and si­lenced doubters, emerg­ing as the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch with her hit song The Ring. Her vic­to­ry at the grand fi­nals on Feb­ru­ary 8 se­cured her the cov­et­ed ti­tle and a $400,000 prize, but more im­por­tant­ly, it marked the start of a his­toric and fast-ris­ing chap­ter in her mu­si­cal jour­ney.

Ahead of the Fourth Chi­nese Spring Fes­ti­val in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Em­bassy of the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na host­ed a cul­tur­al evening to ush­er in the Year of the Horse.

This year, the Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go will cel­e­brate its rich cul­tur­al her­itage in grand style at An­chor­age, Ch­aguara­mas, on the west­ern penin­su­la. The two-day Spring Fes­ti­val marks the Chi­nese New Year and ho­n­ours the Year of the Fire Horse—a rare event that oc­curs once every 60 years.

The steel­band move­ment con­tin­ues to cre­ate last­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for young peo­ple. In part­ner­ship with the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion, eight new Tech­nol­o­gy-in-Ed­u­ca­tion (TIE) Cen­tres have been launched, ex­pand­ing dig­i­tal ac­cess and skills de­vel­op­ment with­in these vi­brant com­mu­ni­ty spaces.