From a child­hood filled with crick­et, foot­ball, and end­less days out­doors in Fyz­abad, Shel­don Stephen’s jour­ney in­to en­tre­pre­neur­ship and event pro­duc­tion was nev­er part of a rigid plan; it was some­thing that un­fold­ed nat­u­ral­ly, shaped by en­vi­ron­ment, in­stinct, and an ear­ly dri­ve to suc­ceed.

At 21, Kar­lene Joseph left Trinidad for New York City to live with her fa­ther. She nev­er had a close re­la­tion­ship with her dad, and this was meant to be their time to bond. He died ten days be­fore she ar­rived. With no time to process her emo­tions, she went straight in­to sur­vival mode.

Lisa At­wa­ter has been through the med­ical and emo­tion­al wringer, hav­ing had two ma­jor surg­eries in less than six months on her spine and brain. And al­though the dis­com­fort and changes in her lifestyle re­main un­wel­come vis­i­tors, there is one con­stant on which she can al­ways re­ly – the sup­port of her com­mu­ni­ty in Moru­ga.

The Reper­to­ry Dance The­atre is pay­ing trib­ute to the late broad­cast­er Ed­di­son Carr, who, un­known to many, was among a group of tal­ent­ed dancers as­sem­bled by the late As­tor John­son as he es­tab­lished the school.

Ladies were ser­e­nad­ed and cel­e­brat­ed all night long in Clifton Hill, Point Fortin, as ZZAG­GAA Fam­i­ly host­ed its 2026 Woman Is Boss event last Wednes­day.

In com­mem­o­ra­tion of World Press Free­dom Day, we hear from a vet­er­an jour­nal­ist and broad­cast­er on her ca­reer and how she’s re­mained stand­ing de­spite the many tests and pres­sures.

No one ever wants to think about get­ting in­to a car ac­ci­dent. How­ev­er, men­tal­ly prepar­ing your­self for the pos­si­bil­i­ty is the ab­solute best way to pro­tect your­self if the un­ex­pect­ed ever hap­pens. If you find your­self in­volved in a col­li­sion, the sud­den shock and adren­a­line can make it dif­fi­cult to think clear­ly. Know­ing ex­act­ly what steps to take will keep you phys­i­cal­ly safe and make the sub­se­quent re­pair and in­sur­ance process­es in­fi­nite­ly smoother.

To­day at the Old Fire Sta­tion in Port-of-Spain, Mar­garet Bus­by, the Ghana­ian-born pub­lish­er, ed­i­tor and writer who has been a cen­tral fig­ure in Black British lit­er­ary life for half a cen­tu­ry, ap­pears in con­ver­sa­tion with Ma­ri­na Sa­landy-Brown, founder and pres­i­dent of the Bo­cas Lit Fest, on Bus­by’s new col­lec­tion, Part of the Sto­ry.

Two love sto­ries, one stage—A Deal With Dark­ness lit up the Na­pari­ma Bowl from April 17 to 19, hold­ing au­di­ences spell­bound as per­form­ers brought lo­cal folk­lore vivid­ly to life in a haunt­ing and emo­tion­al­ly charged nar­ra­tive of love, sac­ri­fice and con­se­quence.

To­ba­go’s pre­mier jazz ex­pe­ri­ence is back with re­newed en­er­gy and am­bi­tion. Beach­front Jazz 2026, host­ed by Black Two Sug­ars, con­tin­ues the is­land’s rich tra­di­tion of jazz, kick­ing off to­day at the Mag­dale­na Grand Beach & Golf Re­sort as part of the To­ba­go Jazz, Mu­sic and Golf Week­end.

In an evening marked by re­flec­tion, sto­ry­telling, pride and ca­ma­raderie, Coast Guard re­tirees who served dur­ing the tur­bu­lent pe­ri­od of the 1970 Black Pow­er move­ment were ho­n­oured at a 56th an­niver­sary re­cep­tion in Long­denville.

On April 23, Span­ish-speak­ing em­bassies based in Port-of-Spain, co­or­di­nat­ed by the Span­ish Em­bassy, con­tin­ued their an­nu­al tra­di­tion of cel­e­brat­ing Span­ish Lan­guage Day at NALIS.