A wave of vi­brant colours, rhyth­mic drum­ming, and joy­ous chant­i­ng swept through the streets of Port-of-Spain last Fri­day as the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ci­ety for Kr­ish­na Con­scious­ness, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Sri Sri Rad­ha Gopinatha Mandir, pre­sent­ed the an­nu­al Ratha Ya­tra—al­so known as the Fes­ti­val of Char­i­ots.

The Cunu­pia-based Ap­sara Dance Com­pa­ny cap­ti­vat­ed au­di­ences on Fri­day with a cel­e­bra­tion of In­di­an dance tra­di­tions at its third an­nu­al con­cert, held at the NCIC Na­gar.

Nadra Su­per­sad is an artist, an avid cook, and a lover of a good lime. At 51 years old, Su­per­sad, who re­sides in Cara­pichaima with her fam­i­ly, re­fus­es to be de­fined by her can­cer di­ag­no­sis, and in fact is a liv­ing con­tra­dic­tion to the gen­er­al ex­pec­ta­tions of can­cer pa­tients.

Ni­dia An­drews—a name well known in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s women’s crick­et fra­ter­ni­ty—is now earn­ing the ad­mi­ra­tion and re­spect of the Guyanese peo­ple. Two years ago, a trip to Guyana to play crick­et changed every­thing for her.

When sev­en-year-old Adam Bartholomew sat be­side his grand­moth­er at the pi­ano for his first les­son, he had no idea that mu­sic and the steel­pan in par­tic­u­lar would one day car­ry him to the halls of Har­vard and Berklee Col­lege of Mu­sic.

On June 5, a unique culi­nary aro­ma, vi­brant pre­sen­ta­tions, and a spir­it­ed en­er­gy filled the FOX5 Wash­ing­ton DC tele­vi­sion stu­dio dur­ing its LI­ON Lunch Hour seg­ment (Like It Or Not), as Tri­ni-born Gillian de Souza made a guest ap­pear­ance. The seg­ment, ti­tled Cel­e­brate with Caribbean Cater­ers, was es­pe­cial­ly mean­ing­ful to her as it took place dur­ing Caribbean Amer­i­can Her­itage Month.

Guardian Me­dia pho­tog­ra­ph­er NICOLE DRAY­TON shares her breast can­cer jour­ney with WE mag­a­zine.

“A li­on is stronger than a man, but it does not en­able him to dom­i­nate the hu­man race. You have ne­glect­ed the du­ty you owe to your­selves, and you have lost your nat­ur­al rights by shut­ting your eyes to your own in­ter­ests.”—Sul­tana’s Dream, 1905

“I felt as though some­one had knocked me down with a big stone. I was hear­ing the words but it felt like the words weren’t for me.” Con­sul­tant pae­di­a­tri­cian, can­cer sur­vivor, and re­cent­ly ho­n­oured as a Glob­al Hero of Hope by the Amer­i­can Can­cer So­ci­ety, Dr Maria­ma Al­leyne re­calls the out-of-body ex­pe­ri­ence of be­ing di­ag­nosed with can­cer in 2018.

June is ob­served in the Unit­ed States as Caribbean-Amer­i­can Her­itage Month, recog­nis­ing Amer­i­cans of Caribbean de­scent and cel­e­brat­ing Caribbean uni­ty, cul­tur­al pride, and aca­d­e­m­ic ex­cel­lence. This year marked the 19th an­nu­al ob­ser­vance na­tion­wide, while the Kings Coun­ty (Brook­lyn) courts host­ed their third an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion on the af­ter­noon of June 27 at the Ju­ry As­sem­bly Room of the Kings Coun­ty Supreme Court (Crim­i­nal Term).

T he stage is set for one of the most dy­nam­ic Toron­to Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tions yet on Au­gust 1, fol­low­ing of­fi­cial con­fir­ma­tion that the On­tario Steel­band As­so­ci­a­tion (OSA) has, for the first time, part­nered with Pan Trin­ba­go Inc. The an­nu­al com­pe­ti­tion, which be­gan in 2003, will mark a his­toric chap­ter in Cana­da’s steel­pan land­scape.

The steel­pan—of­ten hailed as God’s gift to the world—con­tin­ues to prove it­self might­i­er than the sword. Its ini­tial tri­umph came at the T&T Mu­sic Film Fes­ti­val (TTMFF) 2023, where a doc­u­men­tary cel­e­brat­ing the icon­ic Panazz Play­ers not on­ly be­came a his­toric fes­ti­val fea­ture but al­so won the Peo­ple’s Choice Award.