Be­ing launched to­day, a new video brings a unique en­sem­ble of vir­tu­al pan and jazz per­form­ers to­geth­er to per­form Mark Lo­quan’s My Home. Lo­quan’s an­them to his home in T&T, was writ­ten as part of his de­sire to cel­e­brate his home coun­try. He had spent sev­er­al years out­side Trinidad work­ing from Nor­way to Africa, to Aus­tralia and with his per­ma­nent re­set­tle­ment, he wish­es to chal­lenge every­one in these tough times, to fo­cus on what each can do in­di­vid­u­al­ly in our ac­tions to shape our fu­ture, ap­pro­pri­ate­ly launched on In­de­pen­dence Day.

The role of the Chris­t­ian church in Cari­com will be the fo­cus of the Caribbean Apos­tolic Coun­cil’s first-ever Apos­tolic Vir­tu­al Con­fer­ence on Sep­tem­ber 4 and 5. Set­ting Things In Or­der is the theme for the con­fer­ence which will bring to­geth­er Chris­t­ian lead­ers from across the re­gion to ex­am­ine the role of the church in ad­vanc­ing the spir­i­tu­al, eco­nom­ic and so­cial de­vel­op­ment of the Caribbean.

Sie­u­nar­ine Coos­al, ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of the Coos­al’s Group of Com­pa­nies, has re­ceived an hon­orary doc­tor­ate, the Award of Hon­orary De­gree of Doc­tor of Laws (LLD) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI).

Faced with a loss of in­come due to the ex­tend­ed COVID-19 lock­down, two broth­ers have pooled their re­sources and cre­ative ca­pa­bil­i­ties to de­vel­op a new busi­ness spe­cial­is­ing in laser cut­ting and en­grav­ing.

The Dread Wiz­ard (Shar­lan Bai­ley) re­cent­ly re­leased his lat­est sin­gle, Right Round de Cor­ner, on YouTube, In­sta­gram and Face­book.

In an age of un­cer­tain events and tur­bu­lent times, To­ba­go-based artiste Kervern Carter seeks to be a light­house in the storm with his lat­est mu­si­cal re­lease, Heal the World with Love.

Sagi­cor cel­e­brat­ed Eman­ci­pa­tion Day by part­ner­ing with NGO Se­wa TT to bring meals to the so­cial­ly dis­placed that re­side at the Court Sham­rock Shel­ter for the So­cial­ly Dis­placed in San Fer­nan­do.

Stu­dents across the south-east­ern com­mu­ni­ty of Ma­yaro will ap­proach the open­ing of the new school term, hav­ing been em­pow­ered through the do­na­tion of learn­ing de­vices by bpTT.

Kas­mal­ly Ra­jku­mar and her son Ryan are fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of their fore­fa­thers who have been vend­ing at the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket for more than a cen­tu­ry.

Two years ago, cel­e­brat­ed pan arranger Ray Hol­man tried some­thing new. He re­leased his first so­lo vo­cal al­bum, ap­pro­pri­ate­ly named First Love.

The com­plex­i­ty of fam­i­ly re­la­tion­ships is the theme of the new Bios & Book­marks on­line read­ing se­ries start­ing on Sep­tem­ber 5.

The con­cern of every par­ent is: “How do I pro­tect my child from COVID-19 and safe­ly man­age his/her re­turn to school?”