The Caribbean Zone, found­ed in 1998 in Phoenix, Ari­zona, and led by mu­sic teacher Mar­sha D Thomas, was es­tab­lished to show­case the cul­ture of T&T, while al­so em­brac­ing oth­er Caribbean coun­tries.

Lu­mi­na, a film writ­ten and pro­duced by T&T-born Gi­no McK­oy and cur­rent­ly stream­ing on Ama­zon Prime Video, Google Play, and YouTube, fea­tures a group of mod­ern-day young adults on a jour­ney for the truth.

T&T-born po­et An­tho­ny V Capildeo is among eight writ­ers award­ed $175,000 by Wind­ham-Camp­bell prizes to sup­port their work and al­low them to fo­cus on their cre­ative prac­tice in­de­pen­dent of fi­nan­cial con­cerns.

Stu­dio Joli, lo­cat­ed on Hen­ry-Pierre Street, St James, is cur­rent­ly fea­tur­ing the amaz­ing, en­gag­ing works of Pol­ish artist Justi­na Burkows­ka along­side the in­com­pa­ra­ble Lau­ra Fer­reira in her first ex­hib­it in more than a decade.

On March 14, the new­ly-ap­point­ed Japan­ese Am­bas­sador to T&T Dr Aki­ma Umeza­wa host­ed this year’s Em­per­or’s Birth­day Cel­e­bra­tion Re­cep­tion at the Am­bas­sador’s res­i­dence in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, to com­mem­o­rate the 65th Birth­day of Em­per­or Naruhi­to.

The Hin­du Prachar Kendra re­cent­ly host­ed its Phag­wa Fes­ti­val at the Kendra Grounds, Raghu­nanan Road, En­ter­prise. The many tra­di­tion­al Phag­wa fea­tures were well re­ceived by the packed au­di­ence who de­light­ed in the Gu­laal play of the coloured pow­ders.

A tes­ta­ment to re­silience, per­se­ver­ance, and tenac­i­ty, Danielle Reid’s jour­ney has been a con­tin­u­ous pur­suit of per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al growth. Raised with a strong Chris­t­ian foun­da­tion, her par­ents im­bued in her val­ues that con­tin­ue to be fun­da­men­tal.

The roar of the crowd, the thrill of the match—whether crick­et or foot­ball—once kept spec­ta­tors glued to the ac­tion. But to­day, the at­mos­phere has shift­ed. Fans are no longer just there for the game; they crave an ex­pe­ri­ence.

Azz­izah Mo­hammed-Ma­jeed is an ad­vo­cate for em­pow­er­ing and up­lift­ing Mus­lim women. It was an easy de­ci­sion when her hus­band, Moulana Atif Ma­jeed Su­laimani, ap­proached her with the idea of pub­lish­ing a women’s mag­a­zine.

Teach­ers and stu­dents of St Joseph’s Con­vent San Fer­nan­do took part a day filled with fes­tiv­i­ties on March 18 in ho­n­our of the Feast of St. Joseph and the school’s Recog­ni­tion of Ex­cel­lence cer­e­mo­ny.

Dance is of­ten de­scribed as an art form that tran­scends bound­aries and trans­forms lives. For Zi­dane Roop­nar­ine, it did just that—lead­ing him all the way to Bei­jing, Chi­na.

Say­ee­da Khan has spent near­ly four decades shap­ing young minds, but even in re­tire­ment, her mis­sion to guide the next gen­er­a­tion con­tin­ues. As a for­mer teacher, vice prin­ci­pal, and prin­ci­pal, she has wit­nessed first-hand how friend­ships can be test­ed—es­pe­cial­ly in to­day’s dig­i­tal age.