Amid the mod­ern hus­tle of Port of Spain’s trans­for­ma­tion in­to a bustling com­mer­cial hub, Tran­quil­li­ty Methodist Church stands as a sig­nif­i­cant land­mark and a qui­et, en­dur­ing sen­tinel of the city’s past. Nes­tled at the cor­ner of Tra­garete Road and Vic­to­ria Av­enue, the strik­ing ed­i­fice is a phys­i­cal tes­ta­ment to a com­mu­ni­ty’s re­silience and a rich his­to­ry stretch­ing back more than two cen­turies.

One of the di­lap­i­dat­ed but well-known land­marks in Ch­agua­nas is the Li­on House on the Main Road in Ch­agua­nas.

Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin echoes steel­pan pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore’s per­pet­u­al sen­ti­ments on the ben­e­fits of steel­pan to young peo­ple: “Op­por­tu­ni­ties cre­at­ed to de­vel­op dis­ci­pline, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and tol­er­ance, while build­ing con­fi­dence, cre­ativ­i­ty and an ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the coun­try’s cul­tur­al her­itage.”

For more than six decades, Dr Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan has used his voice to car­ry Hin­du de­vo­tion from vil­lage tem­ples to packed sat­sangs, ra­dio and tele­vi­sion au­di­ences – and in­to char­i­ta­ble caus­es across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

They say bore­dom is the moth­er of in­ven­tion, and that there is al­ways room for dessert—per­haps the two say­ings that were the im­pe­tus be­hind the launch of the all-nat­ur­al, gourmet Pale­ta Re­pub­lic pop­si­cles.

Years be­fore the term “pow­er cou­ple” be­came a thing, Carl and Car­ol Ja­cobs were al­ready a de­f­i­n­i­tion of the id­iom. The two have rid­den the mu­sic ex­press for over half a cen­tu­ry as a cou­ple, from do­ing back­ground vo­cals to lead vo­cals on lo­cal, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al stages, with each be­ing able to hold their own in the spot­light.

I like LinkedIn. I use it, I see its val­ue, and I be­lieve it re­mains one of the most use­ful plat­forms for pro­fes­sion­al net­work­ing. But there is one thing that re­al­ly an­noys me. LinkedIn wants me to pay to prop­er­ly see who viewed my pro­file. Why?

An­i­mal cru­el­ty has been gen­er­at­ing grow­ing con­cern in Trinidad and To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly as dis­turb­ing cas­es are shared on so­cial me­dia and dis­cussed pub­licly late­ly. The is­sue is clear­ly strik­ing a nerve and right­ly so, but be­yond the anger that fol­lows each case, there is an­oth­er ques­tion we should be ask­ing: what can an abused an­i­mal tell us about what is hap­pen­ing around it?

Treat­ment and coun­selling may come to mind. Sup­port groups and fam­i­ly sup­port may al­so come to mind.

The start of a new school term is ex­cit­ing, but let’s be hon­est, it can al­so make us feel a lit­tle ner­vous. New class­es, new teach­ers, and the thought of a heav­ier work­load can be scary. Every­one feels those but­ter­flies some­times! But what is the se­cret to over­com­ing those nerves? It is keep­ing fo­cus and prepar­ing ear­ly.

A team of Xtra Foods Su­per­mar­kets Ltd. em­ploy­ees, to­geth­er with past and present teach­ers, par­ents and stu­dents, re­cent­ly joined forces to give Mon Re­pos RC School a fresh coat of paint ahead of the new school aca­d­e­m­ic year on Mon­day.

Here, Je­sus, the Son of God, ex­press­es full as­sur­ance and wel­comes the Fa­ther’s un­wa­ver­ing pres­ence in his life. He is ever about his Fa­ther’s busi­ness and re­ceives his high­est ap­proval: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17) be­cause he is com­mit­ted to do the Fa­ther’s will.