Fyz­abad in south­ern Trinidad is con­sid­ered to be the birth­place of the mod­ern trade union move­ment, specif­i­cal­ly the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).

Cen­turies of tra­di­tion from West Africa have sur­vived coloni­sa­tion, pass­ing from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion, leav­ing a lega­cy of mys­tique and in­trigue.

For years, peo­ple mis­un­der­stood you. They fo­cus on the wrong fea­tures, make as­sump­tions and miss what tru­ly mat­ters.

Of these two, si­nus is by far the more com­mon. It’s be­cause of the chang­ing cli­mate. The air is be­com­ing more and more pol­lut­ed This ir­ri­tates and in­flames the lin­ing of the res­pi­ra­to­ry sys­tem which re­sponds by over­pro­duc­ing mu­cus and oth­er chem­i­cals that cause dis­ease.

Some may con­sid­er it a flaw or a char­ac­ter­is­tic to be rid of. But for Aken­na Kublal, vi­tili­go has changed her for the bet­ter, shap­ing a sto­ry of pro­found strength and re­silience.

In the or­nate halls of Schloss Leopold­skron — where lake mist meets baroque grandeur, and The Sound of Mu­sic once framed cin­e­mat­ic his­to­ry — con­ver­sa­tions turned this year to some­thing far less nos­tal­gic and far more ur­gent: the fu­ture of cul­ture it­self.

For half a cen­tu­ry, the rhyth­mic heart­beat of Skif­fle Bunch Steel Or­ches­tra has echoed through south Trinidad—a tes­ta­ment to re­silience, cul­tur­al pride and un­wa­ver­ing de­ter­mi­na­tion.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to re­flect on the mean­ing of In­di­an Ar­rival Day, the mem­o­ry of the late for­mer prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day lingers pow­er­ful­ly—not on­ly be­cause of his po­lit­i­cal lega­cy, but be­cause of his en­dur­ing ad­vo­ca­cy for an­ces­tral iden­ti­ty and cul­tur­al recog­ni­tion.

For the vis­i­tor, the most im­por­tant con­sid­er­a­tion is what they want from their vis­it. Is it to achieve a phys­i­cal mile­stone, or do they want to ex­pe­ri­ence amaz­ing views of Bei­jing and take great pho­tos?

The roads that wind through San Raphael to­day of­fer few clues that this qui­et east­ern Trinidad com­mu­ni­ty stands be­side one of the most sig­nif­i­cant and trag­ic land­scapes in the is­land’s his­to­ry.

Every young artist dreams of tak­ing the stage, lights, mu­sic, and ap­plause. For most chil­dren, this dream is lim­it­ed on­ly by imag­i­na­tion and op­por­tu­ni­ty. For Kay­ley Da Cos­ta, the jour­ney to the stage re­quired some­thing more: an ex­tra­or­di­nary fight against her own body.

Ma­teo Ali showed his sis­ter  Ele­na Ali  some broth­er­ly love af­ter plac­ing 2nd at Well­ness Fun Run at Freeport.