For­mer pri­ma­ry school teacher Leslie-Ann Jerome loved her job but re­alised God had a high­er pur­pose for her, so she re­signed af­ter serv­ing for two decades.

B efore he be­came a cer­ti­fied glo­be­trot­ter, Dil­lon De­Coteau dreamed about work­ing with aero­planes, but nev­er imag­ined he would be board­ing them one day in­stead of guid­ing them.

In a ma­jor mile­stone for the in­ter­sec­tion of cul­ture, tech­nol­o­gy, and ed­u­ca­tion, the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion has launched ten new Tech­nol­o­gy in Ed­u­ca­tion (TIE) Cen­tres at pa­n­yards across T&T.

Many years ago, when she was asked to se­lect an ob­ject that per­son­i­fied her life’s pur­pose, Nadiège Hon­oré-Welling­ton se­lect­ed a lifebuoy.

The third an­nu­al Sea­son of Anan­si Fes­ti­val was launched on April 16 at Cin­e­ma One IMAX at One Wood­brook Place, Port of Spain.

Ash­ta Sid­hi Nav Nid­hi Ke Daataa, pre­sent­ed by the Shi­va Gana Or­gan­i­sa­tion to cel­e­brate Hanu­man Jayan­ti, the birth­day of Shri Hanu­man was held at the Di­vali Na­gar in Ch­agua­nas last Sat­ur­day.

Writ­ing For Our Lives, a new an­thol­o­gy com­mis­sioned by The Crop­per Foun­da­tion and pub­lished by Peekash Press, will make its in­ter­na­tion­al de­but at this year’s Bo­cas Lit Fest on May 3 at the Old Fire Sta­tion in Port-of-Spain.

De­stra Gar­cia brought gospel to Queen’s Hall re­cent­ly when she per­formed songs from her new al­bum, Re­flec­tions. She blessed the al­most ca­pac­i­ty au­di­ence with her pow­er­ful voice raised in prayer and wor­ship.

Renowned Trinida­di­an artist Che Lovelace has been award­ed the Cheva­lier de L’Or­dre des Arts et des Let­tres (Knight of the Or­der of Arts and Let­ters) by the French gov­ern­ment. This pres­ti­gious ho­n­our, pre­sent­ed by the Em­bassy of France in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Tues­day, recog­nis­es Lovelace’s ex­cep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tions to the arts and his piv­otal role in bring­ing Caribbean vi­su­al ex­pres­sion to the glob­al fore­front.

The Ethiopi­an Or­tho­dox Tewa­he­do Church cel­e­brat­ed Palm Sun­day (Hosan­nah) at their Holy Trin­i­ty Parish in Beetham Gar­dens last Sun­day to start Holy Week.

Fam­i­lies in cen­tral and south Trinidad now have eas­i­er ac­cess to the mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary ther­a­peu­tic ser­vices of­fered by the Caribbean Kids and Fam­i­lies Ther­a­py Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CK­FTO) at its satel­lite clin­ic on Ram­saran Street in Ch­agua­nas.

Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine is prepar­ing to de­liv­er his most heart­felt per­for­mance when A Love Sto­ry takes cen­tre stage on April 26 at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, Ma­coya.