Like many Caribbean na­tion­als, Ka­iande De­von­ish once set out with a clear ca­reer path, one root­ed in sci­ence, pre­ci­sion, and struc­ture. Trained as a chem­i­cal en­gi­neer, the tran­si­tion in­to Cana­di­an im­mi­gra­tion law was not part of the orig­i­nal plan.

Every young artist dreams of tak­ing the stage, lights, mu­sic, and ap­plause. For most chil­dren, this dream is lim­it­ed on­ly by imag­i­na­tion and op­por­tu­ni­ty. For Kay­ley Da Cos­ta, the jour­ney to the stage re­quired some­thing more: an ex­tra­or­di­nary fight against her own body.

Quote: “What­ev­er is ex­pressed is im­pressed. What­ev­er you say to your­self, with emo­tion, gen­er­ates thoughts, ideas and be­hav­iours con­sis­tent with those words" – Bri­an Tra­cy.

Dr Leti­tia Williams has built her life around the adage, “to whom much is giv­en, much is re­quired.” So her re­cent el­e­va­tion to vice pres­i­dent of the Di­vi­sion of Stu­dent Af­fairs at Mor­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land, and her com­mit­ment to the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of her new role came as no sur­prise to those who know her.

It is a com­mon au­to­mo­tive myth passed down through gen­er­a­tions of dri­vers: if your car is run­ning hot, just pour some tap wa­ter in­to the ra­di­a­tor and keep dri­ving. While adding wa­ter in an ab­solute, strand­ed-on-the-high­way emer­gency is mar­gin­al­ly bet­ter than let­ting your en­gine com­plete­ly melt down, us­ing plain wa­ter as your pri­ma­ry cool­ing flu­id is a guar­an­teed recipe for me­chan­i­cal dis­as­ter.

Es­cap­ing a gi­ant alien squid on the moon, hood­wink­ing a dis­grun­tled ghost, win­ning a chut­ney cham­pi­onship, and a scor­pi­on pep­per com­pe­ti­tion. These are some of the wild sto­ries tum­bling from the minds of our na­tion’s chil­dren and in­clud­ed in the Chil­dren’s Sto­ry and Colour­ing Book 10.

As the rainy sea­son re­turns to Trinidad, so does the rise of par­vovirus cas­es seen in pup­pies. Ca­nine par­vovirus, com­mon­ly known as “par­vo” or even mis­pro­nounced “par­go”, is one of the most se­ri­ous, con­ta­gious dis­eases that af­fects dogs, par­tic­u­lar­ly un­vac­ci­nat­ed pup­pies, lead­ing to se­vere ill­ness and death in Trinidad through­out the year.

No mat­ter the mood or the weight of the day, art of­fers a way to ex­press what words some­times can­not. Paired with your favourite drink in hand, it can be­come a gen­tle form of heal­ing—a truth un­der­stood by busi­ness own­er Fe­l­isha Mo­hammed.

For fash­ion de­sign­er Saleem Samuel, style is more than fab­ric and form—it is sto­ry­telling, es­capism and imag­i­na­tion stitched in­to every gar­ment.

The Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain re­cent­ly played host to a much deep­er in­sight in­to the im­mense beau­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, as cap­tured through the lens of cul­tur­al doc­u­men­tar­i­an and ex­pert en­gi­neer Richard Ramirez.

In a dig­i­tal age dom­i­nat­ed by Tik­Tok clips, pod­casts, stream­ers and end­less scrolling, many have been quick to de­clare tra­di­tion­al me­dia dead.

Es­tab­lished in 1969, St Xavier’s Pri­vate School is nes­tled on plush green ter­rain on Rich­mond Street in St Joseph, guid­ed by its mot­to: Par Ar­d­ua, Ad As­tra: With hard work we shall reach the stars.