On May 20, 2025, at Lon­don’s Tate Mod­ern, Banu Mush­taq made his­to­ry as the first Kan­na­da au­thor and In­di­an Mus­lim woman to win the In­ter­na­tion­al Book­er Prize. Her short sto­ry col­lec­tion, Heart Lamp, trans­lat­ed by Deepa Bhasthi and pub­lished by And Oth­er Sto­ries, fea­tures 12 sto­ries writ­ten over 30 years por­tray­ing the lives of women and girls in Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ties in south­ern In­dia. She is the sec­ond In­di­an au­thor to win the In­ter­na­tion­al Book­er Prize, af­ter Gee­tan­jali Shree, in 2022.

Af­ter ig­nit­ing a vi­ral storm with Done With Your Ex, Ghana­ian-British hit­mak­er MOLIY is team­ing up with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dancer and singer Glad­dest for a remix of two so­cial me­dia-dri­ven an­thems—Done With Your Ex and Shake It To The Max.

Hy­giene is not a lux­u­ry. It’s a right. In a space where ac­cess to ba­sic hy­giene can de­fine a per­son’s dig­ni­ty, one woman is on a mis­sion to make a cul­tur­al shift in how Trinidad and To­ba­go thinks about clean­li­ness, care, and com­mu­ni­ty.

The Caribbean’s age­ing pop­u­la­tion re­quires the re­gion to move in­to a new era in how it treats its el­der­ly. Here in T&T, Dr La­vanyaku­mari Thon­dava­da es­tab­lished the Geri­atric So­ci­ety of T&T (GSTT) in Oc­to­ber 2023. Thon­dava­da is both the founder and cur­rent pres­i­dent.

Lu­pus is a silent bat­tle fought dai­ly by mil­lions—a chron­ic au­toim­mune dis­ease where the body’s de­fence sys­tem turns against it­self, mis­tak­en­ly at­tack­ing healthy tis­sues and or­gans. This trig­gers in­flam­ma­tion, pain, and dam­age that can strike any­where—from the skin and joints to the kid­neys, heart, lungs, brain, and blood cells.

Cook­ing is more than just prepar­ing food—it’s sto­ry­telling, heal­ing, cre­ativ­i­ty, and con­nec­tion served on a plate. In a bustling home that she has cre­at­ed, where the aro­ma of the kitchen min­gles with the vi­brant pres­ence of six chil­dren, chef Ar­i­anne Dy­er strikes a per­fect bal­ance in a world that many would call over­whelm­ing. A wife, moth­er, and a chef, Dy­er has called the kitchen home for as long as she can re­mem­ber, laugh­ing that her first word, point­ing at the TV screen, was “cook”.

What be­gan as a pri­vate pas­sion for pho­tograph­ing mush­rooms has blos­somed in­to a sci­en­tif­ic mis­sion to raise na­tion­al aware­ness about the hid­den world of fun­gi in T&T for Jef­frey Wong Sang, 62, a long-stand­ing mem­ber of the T&T Field Nat­u­ral­ists’ Club (TTFNC).

A Na­tion­al Sar­gas­sum Man­age­ment Pol­i­cy is cur­rent­ly be­ing de­vel­oped by the Na­tion­al Sar­gas­sum Task Force (NSTF), which was ap­point­ed to deal with the threats of the gulfweed in Ju­ly 2024.

Rave the Band will mark its ninth an­niver­sary at Side­line Sips Bar, Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, next Fri­day with a spe­cial per­for­mance that promis­es to be a cel­e­bra­tion of their mu­si­cal jour­ney.

One of the Caribbean’s lead­ing cre­ative im­pre­sar­ios and pageant gu­rus Richard Young of­fi­cial­ly launch­es The Young Guild—a trans­for­ma­tive train­ing cen­tre and spe­cial­i­ty event space—to­day at The Shoppes of Mar­aval, at 6 pm.

Last Sat­ur­day’s in­clement weath­er did not damp­en the en­thu­si­asm of the var­i­ous groups from the Vic­to­ria West dis­trict as who show­cased their cul­tur­al tal­ents in the pre­lim­i­nary round of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Best Vil­lage Com­pe­ti­tion at Ste Madeleine Sec­ondary School.

So­ca star Yung Bred­da (Akhen­aton Lewis) head­lined the Grena­da leg of San­dals and Beach­es Re­sorts All That’s Good Road Show on May 8, cli­max­ing the event with his Car­ni­val 2025 hit, The Great­est Bend Over.