The Hin­du Prachar Kendra host­ed its 33rd Phag­wa Fes­ti­val on Sat­ur­day at the Kendra Grounds on Raghu­nanan Road, En­ter­prise.

Re­tired teacher, moth­er, grand­moth­er and cul­tur­al am­bas­sador Au­drey Ram­sey (née Duke) peace­ful­ly passed away on Feb­ru­ary 16.

“My pro­fes­sion­al life did not be­gin in a hos­pi­tal or clin­ic, but with con­crete, steel and cal­cu­la­tions,” re­called Trinida­di­an head and neck sur­geon Dr Mar­lon Christo­pher. “I first trained as a civ­il and en­vi­ron­men­tal en­gi­neer, com­plet­ing my de­gree at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) at the age of 21. Pre­ci­sion mat­tered. Mar­gins mat­tered.”

When­ev­er you see that phrase pop up on Rod­er­ick “Chuck” Gor­don’s Face­book page, pull up a chair; you know that class is in ses­sion. The two-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch might have missed the cut for the 2026 Di­manche Gras fi­nals last month, but he has now fo­cused his at­ten­tion on an on­line stage where the “to­ries” nev­er miss a beat.

A burst of colour, mu­sic and tra­di­tion filled the air on Sun­day as hun­dreds of res­i­dents from Fe­lic­i­ty, Char­lieville and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties gath­ered at the Pierre Road Recre­ation Ground to cel­e­brate Phag­wa, al­so known as Holi.

The Sim­boonath Capildeo Tu­na­puna Hin­du School cel­e­brat­ed Chil­dren’s Phag­wa last Fri­day along­side oth­er Hin­du schools across the coun­try.

Ramps Lo­gis­tics has earned a 2026 Sil­ver Amer­i­can Ad­ver­tis­ing Award (AD­DY) for its Cub­by Car­go cam­paign, win­ning in the Spe­cial­ty Ad­ver­tis­ing Cam­paign cat­e­go­ry.

Ter­ri Lyons has al­ways be­lieved in her­self—even when oth­ers doubt­ed or did not share her vi­sion. The dec­o­rat­ed singer, song­writer and ac­tress cred­its her achieve­ments and con­tin­ued con­fi­dence to faith, re­silience and sac­ri­fice.

For Dr Sue Ann Bar­ratt, un­der­stand­ing gen­dered con­flict has al­ways be­gun with a de­cep­tive­ly sim­ple ques­tion: how do our be­liefs about gen­der shape the way we treat each oth­er? A com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al turned aca­d­e­m­ic, Bar­ratt is at present a Lec­tur­er and the Head of the In­sti­tute for Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus. As the world ob­serves In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day in 2026 un­der the theme “Give to Gain,” Bar­ratt, who has spent more than two decades ex­am­in­ing ex­pec­ta­tions around fem­i­nin­i­ty, mas­culin­i­ty, and sex­u­al­i­ty, of­fers a pow­er­ful re­minder that mean­ing­ful change be­gins with chal­leng­ing the as­sump­tions that struc­ture our re­la­tion­ships and are of­ten foun­da­tion­al el­e­ments of cul­ture.

The ver­dict is in: all those episodes of Law & Or­der didn’t go to waste. For Danielle Thomp­son, the icon­ic chimes of the pop­u­lar court­room dra­ma were the open­ing state­ment of her life. Even as a young girl, she was al­ready locked in. She watched lawyers fight­ing for jus­tice and win­ning, and she told her­self there was noth­ing else she want­ed to do.

On Feb­ru­ary 8, when Savi­ta Singh’s name echoed across the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch stage, time seemed to stand still.

The steel­band fra­ter­ni­ty is of­ten recog­nised as a male-dom­i­nant space, but at this year’s Na­tion­al Panora­ma Fes­ti­val, with the ex­cep­tion of the pri­ma­ry school cat­e­go­ry, every band that emerged in the fi­nals was cap­tained, man­aged or drilled by women. Spe­cial no­tice was giv­en to the top three in the large con­ven­tion­al cat­e­go­ry.