“It is not the healthy who need a doc­tor, but the sick. I have not come to call the right­eous, but sin­ners.” This quote from the Bible, in the book of Mark, chap­ter 2, verse 17, is part of a larg­er con­ver­sa­tion where Je­sus de­fends his as­so­ci­a­tion with tax col­lec­tors and sin­ners, high­light­ing that he came to of­fer for­give­ness and re­demp­tion to those who recog­nise their need for it.

M ul­ti-tal­ent­ed, award-win­ning steel­band arranger Am­rit Sama­roo was guest artiste and com­pos­er in res­i­dence for the Per­cus­sive Arts So­ci­ety South Car­oli­na Fes­ti­val of Steel in April. The fes­ti­val was pro­duced and host­ed by Dr Jesse Willis and Coastal Car­oli­na Uni­ver­si­ty (CCU).

The Lynette Ram­per­sad Give A Lit­tle, Help A Lot Foun­da­tion (LRF) wants to ex­pand its reach by for­mal­is­ing its pro­grammes and deep­en­ing its ad­vo­ca­cy in the ar­eas of can­cer care and ed­u­ca­tion­al ac­cess.

Plas­tic pol­lu­tion con­tin­ues to be the world’s most press­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sue in the 21 st cen­tu­ry with dis­pos­able plas­tics pol­lut­ing the world’s oceans. As ubiq­ui­tous as the sand, dis­card­ed sin­gle-use plas­tics are per­sis­tent­ly found on al­most every beach, wa­ter­way and in seas across the world, harm­ing ma­rine life through en­tan­gle­ment and in­ges­tion, and pos­ing a se­ri­ous risk to ma­rine ecosys­tems.

The sound of San­skrit chants, wor­ship, bells and conch shells, dho­lak and bha­jans filled the air, as Hin­du devo­tees gath­ered at the Mar­i­anne Riv­er in Blan­chisseuse to cel­e­brate Gan­ga Dhaaraa on June 8.

For­mer T&T Guardian Ed­i­tor-in Chief Do­minic Kaliper­sad con­duct­ed a voice and me­dia pre­sen­ta­tion mas­ter class at The Ken Gor­don School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Cre­ative and Dig­i­tal Me­dia on June 16. The ses­sion, held at the in­vi­ta­tion of the col­lege, was open to stu­dents and grad­u­ates of the school who ea­ger­ly took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to be part of the in­for­ma­tive ses­sion.

The St An­drews Sports and Cul­tur­al Group of Cou­va de­liv­ered an un­for­get­table In­di­an Clas­si­cal Singing Show­case on Sun­day, as a ca­pac­i­ty au­di­ence filled the Cou­va South Au­di­to­ri­um to wit­ness four of T&T’s finest vo­cal tal­ents.

Read­ing en­thu­si­asts were treat­ed to a spe­cial Evening of Tea and Read­ings on June 14 at Ho­tel Nor­mandie, host­ed by Pa­per Based Book­shop.

These phras­es are of­ten ca­su­al­ly tossed around when peo­ple face tough sit­u­a­tions—but what do they re­al­ly mean?

When Dr Re­bekah Shirley first set foot in Nairo­bi, Kenya, it re­mind­ed her of Trinidad, where she was raised, and Ja­maica, where her roots run deep.

Pro­fes­sor Renée Cum­mings is re­defin­ing what it means to lead in the age of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI). As AI rewrites the rules of so­ci­ety, she’s mak­ing sure jus­tice, ethics, eq­ui­ty, safe­ty and re­spon­si­ble gov­er­nance aren’t left be­hind.

Aman­da Smyth writes be­tween is­lands. Born in Ire­land to a Trinida­di­an moth­er and Irish fa­ther, she be­longs to both places—and nei­ther en­tire­ly. Now based in Leam­ing­ton Spa, she teach­es cre­ative writ­ing at Ar­von, Sky­ros in Greece, and Coven­try Uni­ver­si­ty.