Ladies were ser­e­nad­ed and cel­e­brat­ed all night long in Clifton Hill, Point Fortin, as ZZAG­GAA Fam­i­ly host­ed its 2026 Woman Is Boss event last Wednes­day.

From a child­hood filled with crick­et, foot­ball, and end­less days out­doors in Fyz­abad, Shel­don Stephen’s jour­ney in­to en­tre­pre­neur­ship and event pro­duc­tion was nev­er part of a rigid plan; it was some­thing that un­fold­ed nat­u­ral­ly, shaped by en­vi­ron­ment, in­stinct, and an ear­ly dri­ve to suc­ceed.

No one ever wants to think about get­ting in­to a car ac­ci­dent. How­ev­er, men­tal­ly prepar­ing your­self for the pos­si­bil­i­ty is the ab­solute best way to pro­tect your­self if the un­ex­pect­ed ever hap­pens. If you find your­self in­volved in a col­li­sion, the sud­den shock and adren­a­line can make it dif­fi­cult to think clear­ly. Know­ing ex­act­ly what steps to take will keep you phys­i­cal­ly safe and make the sub­se­quent re­pair and in­sur­ance process­es in­fi­nite­ly smoother.

In­fer­til­i­ty in women can be de­fined as the in­abil­i­ty to achieve preg­nan­cy af­ter 12 months of try­ing with a male part­ner. It can al­so re­fer to the in­abil­i­ty to car­ry a preg­nan­cy to term. Fe­male in­fer­til­i­ty may re­sult from many fac­tors, such as blocked fal­lop­i­an tubes, hor­mon­al im­bal­ances, age-re­lat­ed de­cline in egg qual­i­ty, or health con­di­tions. Lifestyle fac­tors are im­por­tant in in­flu­enc­ing re­pro­duc­tive health.

Two love sto­ries, one stage—A Deal With Dark­ness lit up the Na­pari­ma Bowl from April 17 to 19, hold­ing au­di­ences spell­bound as per­form­ers brought lo­cal folk­lore vivid­ly to life in a haunt­ing and emo­tion­al­ly charged nar­ra­tive of love, sac­ri­fice and con­se­quence.

To­ba­go’s pre­mier jazz ex­pe­ri­ence is back with re­newed en­er­gy and am­bi­tion. Beach­front Jazz 2026, host­ed by Black Two Sug­ars, con­tin­ues the is­land’s rich tra­di­tion of jazz, kick­ing off to­day at the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach & Golf Re­sort as part of the To­ba­go Jazz, Mu­sic and Golf Week­end.

On April 23, Span­ish-speak­ing em­bassies based in Port-of-Spain, co­or­di­nat­ed by the Span­ish Em­bassy, con­tin­ued their an­nu­al tra­di­tion of cel­e­brat­ing Span­ish Lan­guage Day at NALIS.

In an evening marked by re­flec­tion, sto­ry­telling, pride and ca­ma­raderie, Coast Guard re­tirees who served dur­ing the tur­bu­lent pe­ri­od of the 1970 Black Pow­er move­ment were ho­n­oured at a 56th an­niver­sary re­cep­tion in Long­denville.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of Or­isha El­ders of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NCOETT) com­mem­o­rat­ed Earth Day 2026 with an an­ces­tral ob­ser­vance at the Lopinot An­ces­tral Grounds last Wednes­day, bring­ing to­geth­er devo­tees, cul­tur­al prac­ti­tion­ers and na­tion­al fig­ures in a gath­er­ing that un­der­scored en­vi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship, cul­tur­al con­ti­nu­ity and col­lec­tive re­flec­tion.

The fifth edi­tion of The French Panora­ma, a vir­tu­al steel­band com­pe­ti­tion held in France, took place on Sat­ur­day. Pre­sent­ed by the French Panora­ma As­so­ci­a­tion (FPA), the event was host­ed by its pres­i­dent and di­rec­tor, Wan­da Atkins.

Mu­sic lovers turned out in full force on East­er Sun­day for the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val’s 2026 stag­ing of “Jazz in Red – The Love Af­fair,” trans­form­ing the grounds of Cipri­ani Col­lege in­to a sea of colour, rhythm, and style.

Your safe­ty on the road does not be­gin when you shift in­to dri­ve; it ac­tu­al­ly comes down to the crit­i­cal few min­utes be­fore you even turn the ig­ni­tion key. Get­ting in­to the dai­ly habit of per­form­ing a “two-minute walka­round” can pre­vent un­ex­pect­ed blowouts, sud­den en­gine fail­ure, and in­cred­i­bly un­safe dri­ving con­di­tions. It on­ly takes a mo­ment, but it can save you hours of stress.