“Slav­ery was an eco­nom­ic in­sti­tu­tion of the first im­por­tance. It had been the ba­sis of the Greek econ­o­my and had built up the Ro­man Em­pire. In mod­ern times, it pro­vid­ed the sug­ar for the tea and the cof­fee cups of the West­ern world. It pro­duced the cot­ton to serve as a base for mod­ern cap­i­tal­ism. It made the Amer­i­can South and the Caribbean is­lands. The rea­son was eco­nom­ic, not racial. It had to do not with the colour of the labour­er, but the cheap­ness of the labour."

Even as a young boy, Bradley Ram­cha­ran knew he want­ed to be a fa­ther. He had it all mapped out in his head: two chil­dren, a boy and a girl. To­day, the Lib­er­ty Caribbean multi­na­tion­al and gov­ern­ment sales di­rec­tor has ex­act­ly what he wished for.

He may not be a fa­ther in the tra­di­tion­al sense of the word, but for the past 50 years, Mon­sign­or Chris­t­ian Pereira has as­sumed the role of “Fa­ther” to thou­sands of parish­ioners through­out Trinidad. Pereira was or­dained to the priest­hood in 1976 and was be­stowed with the ti­tle of mon­sign­or in recog­ni­tion of his dis­tin­guished ser­vice to the Church in 2003. He has al­so served as Cathe­dral ad­min­is­tra­tor, Vic­ar Gen­er­al and Arch­dioce­san ad­min­is­tra­tor.

The term “vul­var dy­s­tro­phy” was com­mon­ly used in the past to de­scribe chron­ic skin con­di­tions af­fect­ing the vul­va (the ex­ter­nal fe­male gen­i­tal area). To­day, gy­nae­col­o­gists use more spe­cif­ic di­ag­noses be­cause these con­di­tions have dif­fer­ent caus­es, treat­ments, and long-term im­pli­ca­tions.

Fa­ther’s Day is the per­fect oc­ca­sion to recog­nise the men who show up every day with strength, guid­ance and love, and great style is an­oth­er way many fa­thers ex­press their per­son­al­i­ty.

In the bustling town and ur­ban com­mu­ni­ty of San Juan, 11A San­ta Cruz Old Road will come alive to­day from 6 pm, when the gates of Pam­beri Steel Or­ches­tra’s (Pam­beri) pa­n­yard open for the sev­enth stag­ing of Labour & Steel.

Ja­maican reg­gae artiste Austill “Zag­ga” Hen­ry has spent years build­ing a rep­u­ta­tion for up­lift­ing mu­sic and con­scious mes­sages, but 2026 may prove to be his biggest year yet.

When Seon Nurse steps on­to one of the world’s biggest cul­tur­al stages as chore­o­g­ra­ph­er for a FI­FA Fan Fes­ti­val pre­sen­ta­tion with Uni­ver­Soul Cir­cus, he car­ries much more than chore­og­ra­phy with him.

For more than two decades, Gary Ja­grup has made Trinidad and To­ba­go laugh with a gift few pos­sess - the abil­i­ty to be­come some­one else with just the sound of his voice.

Re­mem­ber as a child when you had a cough and Grand­ma would go in­to her home gar­den for fresh herbs to boil some bush tea on the stove? Or when Mom­my poured you a cup of bit­ter or­ange peel tea be­cause you had a gas pain? Back in the day, reach­ing for a pill for every mi­nor ail­ment was far from the norm. Look­ing back, we re­alise that those sim­pler times had a wis­dom all their own.

It’s a cool Sat­ur­day evening in Beause­jour Vil­lage, Blue Basin, Diego Mar­tin. In­side her front yard, Eliz­a­beth Bel­con, her fam­i­ly and neigh­bours slide a fi­nal batch of dough in­to a glow­ing dirt oven. The aro­ma of fresh bread fills the air.

Few things are more dis­ap­point­ing than ar­riv­ing with an ap­petite for dou­bles or bar­be­cue, on­ly to find the stand closed for the day.