Al­low the spir­it of God to lead you, and live in love,” are two of the many pro­found mes­sages Laven­tille res­i­dent Genelle Bharat ad­vo­cates.

On March 28, ace mu­si­cian, com­pos­er, arranger and pro­duc­er Dr Pel­ham God­dard gave pa­trons a night to re­mem­ber when he and a cadre of mu­si­cal col­lab­o­ra­tors cel­e­brat­ed his jour­ney in the pro­duc­tion Echoes of an Era: Friend­ship at Kafe Blue in Port-of-Spain.

T&T pro­duc­er and singer-song­writer Kur­tis “Lon­don Fu­ture” Wells feels grate­ful and ec­sta­t­ic af­ter work­ing with Ko­re­an megas­tars BTS. He co-wrote two songs on their lat­est al­bum, ARI­RANG.

This Good Fri­day, one young man takes on the role of Je­sus. And as he car­ries the cross, he car­ries with him not just a role, but the faith of an en­tire com­mu­ni­ty.

So­ca star De­stra Gar­cia stepped in­to a dif­fer­ent mu­si­cal and spir­i­tu­al space last week­end when she staged her gospel con­cert Re­flec­tions at Queen’s Hall, of­fer­ing au­di­ences an evening cen­tred on faith, tes­ti­mo­ny and vo­cal ex­pres­sion.

Amid a year marked by can­celled jazz events and tight­en­ing fund­ing, the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val is chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course—one de­fined not by re­treat, but by rein­ven­tion.

De­part­ing US-born UWI De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts (DC­FA) eth­no­mu­si­col­o­gist, Prof Jean­nine Re­my, was treat­ed to a spec­tac­u­lar demon­stra­tion of the in­struc­tion she has de­liv­ered over the years when the UWI Arts Per­cus­sion En­sem­ble paid trib­ute to her on March 28.

Stan­dard Two and Three stu­dents from the Jern­ing­ham Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School in Ch­agua­nas got the chance of a life­time dur­ing a field trip to To­ba­go re­cent­ly.

Si­mone Leid is a Trinida­di­an po­et and gen­der ad­vo­cate whose writ­ing re­flects a deep en­gage­ment with gen­der and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment work across the Caribbean. Her po­ems come from the women she meets and the con­di­tions she en­coun­ters in her work.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, food is not on­ly our fu­el source, but it’s al­so our cul­ture, tra­di­tion and com­fort. Dif­fer­ent cook­ing meth­ods for lo­cal cui­sine can be sat­is­fy­ing, but there are con­cerns which arise be­cause of our eat­ing habits. Lifestyle dis­eases that are com­mon among women in­clude ges­ta­tion­al di­a­betes, Type 2 di­a­betes, and high blood pres­sure, to name a few. Every­day meals can be al­tered to have a pow­er­ful im­pact on women’s health.

The NGHS Non No­bis Foun­da­tion host­ed its an­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day Sem­i­nar, “Pur­ple Pow­er for Progress 3” at Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School, bring­ing to­geth­er women from across the com­mu­ni­ty for a day of mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sion, re­flec­tion and em­pow­er­ment.

What be­gan dur­ing child­hood as a form of ther­a­py for Ja­son Granger even­tu­al­ly turned in­to a long-last­ing pas­sion. Fo­cused on main­tain­ing au­then­tic­i­ty and cre­at­ing a sense of com­mu­ni­ty, the Ari­ma au­thor is now steadi­ly build­ing his cat­a­logue chap­ter by chap­ter.