Tak­ing your ve­hi­cle for its manda­to­ry safe­ty in­spec­tion can of­ten feel like a nerve-wrack­ing, high-stakes ex­am. Will it pass? Will you have to waste pre­cious time fix­ing a mi­nor is­sue and stand­ing in a long line all over again? The good news is that you can com­plete­ly elim­i­nate in­spec­tion anx­i­ety by know­ing ex­act­ly what is re­quired be­fore you even pull in­to the test­ing sta­tion.

Labour Day, June 19, is five days away. To­day, we pay trib­ute to one of the pi­o­neers of the labour move­ment whose name many peo­ple may not even know.

For na­ture lovers seek­ing a peace­ful out­door re­treat, La Ve­ga Es­tate in Gran Cou­va of­fers a unique blend of recre­ation, re­lax­ation and nat­ur­al beau­ty.

Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Let him come un­to me.” And all the sons of Levi gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er un­to him (Ex­o­dus 32:26).

The con­tri­bu­tions of Dr Bhag­wa­tee Se­u­nar­ine to health­care in south Trinidad are be­ing re­mem­bered fol­low­ing her re­cent death at the age of 91, with fam­i­ly and for­mer col­leagues re­flect­ing on a life ded­i­cat­ed to med­i­cine, ser­vice and fam­i­ly.

They say the best sto­ries come from un­ex­pect­ed places. For Spree Si­mon, it was junk, dis­card­ed pans, tins, and steel drums pulled from the scrap heaps of John-John, Trinidad. For 11-year-old Sarai Ayesha, it was her moth­er’s desk.

It’s not every day you get an In­sta­gram DM (di­rect mes­sage) from a FI­FA rep­re­sen­ta­tive say­ing they ad­mire your work. But this is ex­act­ly what hap­pened to T&T’s Al­in­ton “DJ An­ar­chy” Br­ere­ton. The Moru­ga na­tive is now gear­ing up for the op­por­tu­ni­ty of a life­time — play­ing at the 2026 FI­FA World Cup, which kicked off on Thurs­day.

South Ko­re­an dra­mas have earned a rep­u­ta­tion for tack­ling dif­fi­cult so­cial is­sues, and Net­flix’s Teach You a Les­son is no ex­cep­tion. This grip­ping se­ries shines a spot­light on one of the most trou­bling chal­lenges fac­ing schools to­day: bul­ly­ing, vi­o­lence, and the break­down of re­spect with­in the ed­u­ca­tion­al sys­tem. Through in­tense sto­ry­telling, com­pelling char­ac­ters, and thought-pro­vok­ing themes, the se­ries asks an im­por­tant ques­tion: Who pro­tects the peo­ple who are sup­posed to be safe at school?

Laugh­ter and easy­go­ing con­ver­sa­tion filled the cosy, art-lined space of Tea Leaves 1881 in Wood­brook on Mon­day as 25 spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests gath­ered for a show­case of Christo­pher Lewis’ three books, cul­mi­nat­ing in the launch of his lat­est work, “Dear Caribbean Peo­ple: A Col­lec­tion of Proverbs for Liv­ing and Thriv­ing.” The in­ti­mate evening, com­plete with a wel­come char­cu­terie board and a com­pli­men­ta­ry cock­tail, al­so marked the au­thor’s 65th birth­day.

For 27-year-old Mark Haynes, mu­sic has al­ways been more than melody; it has been a ve­hi­cle for trans­for­ma­tion. The Trinida­di­an dou­ble bassist has once again placed his home­land on the map, se­cur­ing a pres­ti­gious Doc­tor of Mu­si­cal Arts (DMA) de­gree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mi­a­mi’s Frost School of Mu­sic, ac­com­pa­nied by a full tu­ition schol­ar­ship and the high­ly cov­et­ed Hen­ry Manci­ni In­sti­tute (HMI) Per­for­mance Fel­low­ship.