WE Au­to, along with Pro­fes­sion­al Garage Ltd, will be help­ing read­ers bet­ter un­der­stand com­mon ve­hi­cle is­sues and how to ad­dress them, to stay safe on the road.

At a time when au­di­ences are con­stant­ly scrolling for the next clip or re­play, for­mer school teacher turned ac­tress Avion Crooks took a de­lib­er­ate­ly dif­fer­ent route: one night, one au­di­ence, no dig­i­tal af­ter­life. Her sec­ond stand-up com­e­dy pro­duc­tion, One Night On­ly… is Long Time, lived up to its name—a three-hour im­mer­sion in dis­tinct­ly Trinida­di­an hu­mour that re­ward­ed those present at the Na­pari­ma Bowl on April 9.

Dur­ing this week, salt in­take needs some at­ten­tion, es­pe­cial­ly for women’s health. Salt is im­por­tant for bod­i­ly func­tions, but con­sum­ing too much can af­fect health long-term. As women, our salt in­take is im­por­tant when it comes to man­ag­ing high blood pres­sure, heart health, hor­mon­al bal­ance and main­tain­ing well­ness at every stage in life.

Steel & Strings is an en­ter­tain­ment pro­duc­tion launched last year with a clear man­date: to keep sea­soned mu­si­cians of di­verse gen­res vis­i­ble, ac­tive and val­ued, while de­liv­er­ing high-qual­i­ty ex­pe­ri­ences for mu­sic lovers.

Reg­gae artiste Yak­s­ta is po­si­tion­ing his lat­est sin­gle, Roar, as more than a mu­sic al re­lease, us­ing it as a plat­form to con­front what he views as grow­ing in­au­then­tic­i­ty, so­cial im­bal­ance and cul­tur­al drift across the Caribbean and be­yond.

As the Na­tion­al Parang As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NPATT) marks its 55th an­niver­sary this week­end, the or­gan­i­sa­tion will host an af­ter­noon of com­mem­o­ra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing a Thanks­giv­ing Ser­vice and cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tion.

The St Philip and St James RC Church staged its fourth an­nu­al Fam­i­ly Day at Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas, on East­er Mon­day.

Promise House TT is bring­ing its mis­sion to the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on May 23 with its first-ever 5K run and walk. The event aims to raise aware­ness of pae­di­atric can­cer and hos­pice care, un­der what its lead­er­ship de­scribes as an “ecosys­tem of love” for the coun­try’s most vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens. While mem­bers of the pub­lic can reg­is­ter for the run or walk to com­pete for prizes, the event al­so serves as an in­vi­ta­tion for in­di­vid­u­als to sim­ply show up and sup­port the cause.

For­mer na­tion­al vol­ley­ball cap­tain Ryan Stew­art is en­cour­ag­ing fel­low ath­letes to think about life be­yond the fi­nal whis­tle from an ear­ly stage. Hav­ing worn the cap­tain’s arm­band from 2015 to 2022, Ryan speaks from ex­pe­ri­ence. An in­jury dur­ing the 2018 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Games in Colom­bia side­lined him for five months. He suf­fered from plan­tar fasci­itis, a de­bil­i­tat­ing foot con­di­tion that af­fects rough­ly 10 per cent of the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion and can be ca­reer-threat­en­ing for high-im­pact ath­letes. That ex­pe­ri­ence forced him to con­front the re­al­i­ties of the lim­it­ed spe­cialised care avail­able to sport­ing tal­ent at home.

Born and raised in Laven­tille, for­mer Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Rod­er­ick “Chuck” Gor­don says he has a “to­ry” to tell—one aimed at build­ing men­tal re­silience and fos­ter­ing a more com­pas­sion­ate so­ci­ety. His lat­est sin­gle, Love Meh­self, de­liv­ers that mes­sage through mu­sic ground­ed in per­son­al re­flec­tion and so­cial aware­ness.

The sound of prayer, the rhythm of an­cient chants, and the qui­et sym­bol­ism of rit­u­al marked a sa­cred time for mem­bers of the Ethiopi­an Or­tho­dox Tewa­he­do Church in Trinidad and To­ba­go, as they ob­served Holy Week with cer­e­monies steeped in cen­turies-old tra­di­tion.

Thou­sands of mu­sic lovers con­verged on the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence on Sat­ur­day night for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed I Am the Mu­sic Boss – Di­a­mond Edi­tion, a pro­duc­tion that once again un­der­scored the en­dur­ing ap­peal of chut­ney and Bol­ly­wood fu­sion on the lo­cal en­ter­tain­ment stage.