An econ­o­mist by pro­fes­sion, Shar­i­fa Ali-Ab­dul­lah grad­u­at­ed from the pres­ti­gious Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty in New York—an Ivy League in­sti­tu­tion—with a Mas­ter’s De­gree in Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy Man­age­ment.

Herbs are plants with aro­mat­ic prop­er­ties used for flavour­ing food, med­i­c­i­nal pur­pos­es, or fra­grances. They typ­i­cal­ly have soft, green, leafy parts and can be used fresh or dried. Ex­am­ples in­clude basil, mint, rose­mary, thyme, and pars­ley.

Vis­it­ing pa­n­yards for Car­ni­val 2025 was eu­phor­ic for me, and it all start­ed with the Pam­beri Steel Or­ches­tra.

Pro­duc­tion One’s re­mark­able an­nu­al pro­duc­tion of Jazz Artists on the Greens is now pret­ty much tak­en for grant­ed as one of those un­miss­able mu­si­cal events. Its 20th edi­tion on a rainy Sat­ur­day, April 5 helped prove the point, de­spite the chal­lenge of oth­er com­pelling events that day.

The Hin­du Prachar Kendra ob­served Navra­tri with De­vi Sat­sang and Kanya Pu­ja at their Shri Ram Vi­jay Mandir in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on March 30.

Two of the top fe­male acts in So­ca will be hit­ting the stage to show­case their lat­est projects this Sat­ur­day night - al­beit in very dif­fer­ent places and for vast­ly dif­fer­ent shows. Whilst QOB De­stra Gar­cia presents her long-await­ed Gospel al­bum and con­cert en­ti­tled Re­flec­tions at Queens Hall in Port of Spain, Trinidad; the Sokah Found­ing Grand­daugh­ter of Ras Shorty I, Nailah Black­man will head­line the DC Car­ni­val and Cul­tureFest DMV’s "Sat­ur­day Night LIVE!" con­cert se­ries on the same Sat­ur­day night April 12, at Wash­ing­ton D.C.’s his­toric Howard The­atre in the USA.

Trinidad-born, To­ba­go-based se­nior artist Mar­tin Su­perville is cel­e­brat­ing his 30th an­niver­sary in vi­su­al arts with an ex­hi­bi­tion which opened on Thurs­day.

“Just ex­press­ing my­self on pa­per brought me ease and hap­pi­ness, which I had nev­er ex­pe­ri­enced,” she re­called.

In­ter­na­tion­al Game Tech­nol­o­gy (IGT), a glob­al leader in gam­ing, to­day an­nounced a tech­nol­o­gy do­na­tion to the LIFE (Learn­ing Is For Every­one) Cen­tre in Cas­cade in recog­ni­tion of Autism Aware­ness Month.

Matu­ra’s leatherback tur­tle nest­ing sea­son is be­ing threat­ened by an ac­cu­mu­la­tion of sar­gas­sum sea­weed.

Books by al­ready cel­e­brat­ed au­thors from Trinidad and To­ba­go and Haiti have won the po­et­ry, fic­tion, and non-fic­tion cat­e­gories of the 2025 OCM Bo­cas Prize for Caribbean Lit­er­a­ture.

Ter­ence Pieters was an ar­dent surfer and pro­fes­sion­al boo­gie board­er be­fore a shoul­der in­jury halt­ed his com­pet­i­tive ca­reer.