Lyris Gra­ham-Williams knows what it means to lead, and to fol­low. At home, her hus­band takes the reins, and she em­braces her role as wife and helper, ground­ed in their Chris­t­ian faith and mu­tu­al re­spect. But for two years at Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (ASSL), the roles re­versed. In the of­fice, he re­port­ed to her.

When 26-year-old Lor­raine Rag­bir vis­it­ed the doc­tor for high blood pres­sure, kid­ney fail­ure was the last di­ag­no­sis she ex­pect­ed.

For Dami­an Agos­ti­ni, poui tree branch­es, rem­nants of Car­ni­val cos­tumes and even forks from near­by restau­rants are items he re­cy­cles in­to art at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

World Kid­ney Day is recog­nised on the sec­ond Thurs­day in March. It is set aside to raise aware­ness about kid­ney dis­eases and the peo­ple who live with them every day.

Xtra Foods brought to­geth­er women from across com­mu­ni­ties for a cel­e­bra­tion of em­pow­er­ment, re­silience and the trans­for­ma­tive im­pact of women in so­ci­ety dur­ing a spe­cial event in com­mem­o­ra­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day at its South Park, San Fer­nan­do lo­ca­tion last Fri­day.

Laugh­ter, gasps and de­light­ed screams filled the au­di­to­ri­um at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts on March 5, as school­child­ren from across Trinidad and To­ba­go gath­ered to watch the thrilling stage pro­duc­tion of The 7 Voy­ages of Sin­bad.

The In­ter­Club of Trinidad and To­ba­go host­ed its 24th An­nu­al Tea in cel­e­bra­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day, unit­ing sev­er­al Non-Gov­ern­men­tal Or­gan­i­sa­tions for an af­ter­noon of fel­low­ship and fes­tiv­i­ty on Sun­day at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel.

The Hin­du Prachar Kendra host­ed its 33rd Phag­wa Fes­ti­val on Sat­ur­day at the Kendra Grounds on Raghu­nanan Road, En­ter­prise.

Re­tired teacher, moth­er, grand­moth­er and cul­tur­al am­bas­sador Au­drey Ram­sey (née Duke) peace­ful­ly passed away on Feb­ru­ary 16.

“My pro­fes­sion­al life did not be­gin in a hos­pi­tal or clin­ic, but with con­crete, steel and cal­cu­la­tions,” re­called Trinida­di­an head and neck sur­geon Dr Mar­lon Christo­pher. “I first trained as a civ­il and en­vi­ron­men­tal en­gi­neer, com­plet­ing my de­gree at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) at the age of 21. Pre­ci­sion mat­tered. Mar­gins mat­tered.”

The Sim­boonath Capildeo Tu­na­puna Hin­du School cel­e­brat­ed Chil­dren’s Phag­wa last Fri­day along­side oth­er Hin­du schools across the coun­try.

When­ev­er you see that phrase pop up on Rod­er­ick “Chuck” Gor­don’s Face­book page, pull up a chair; you know that class is in ses­sion. The two-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch might have missed the cut for the 2026 Di­manche Gras fi­nals last month, but he has now fo­cused his at­ten­tion on an on­line stage where the “to­ries” nev­er miss a beat.