At The Guild, lo­cat­ed at the Shoppes of Mar­aval, Richard Young is cul­ti­vat­ing more than a cre­ative space—he is nur­tur­ing an ecosys­tem where Caribbean iden­ti­ty and women’s em­pow­er­ment in­ter­sect.

The year 2013 saw a dras­tic change for me. It was around Au­gust or Sep­tem­ber that I was giv­en the dev­as­tat­ing news that I had cer­vi­cal can­cer. Need­less to say, I felt numb for some mo­ments un­til the enor­mi­ty of my sit­u­a­tion be­gan to sink in, and a roller­coast­er of emo­tions kicked in, the fore­most be­ing fear and anx­i­ety and, of course, hav­ing to break this heartwrench­ing news to my fam­i­ly. But it had to be done, nonethe­less.

Hear­ing those words was ter­ri­fy­ing. It felt as if my en­tire world had col­lapsed since I had no un­der­stand­ing of can­cer or its treat­ments. My ini­tial re­ac­tion was the fear of dy­ing. How­ev­er, af­ter un­der­go­ing ad­di­tion­al tests and con­sult­ing with my doc­tors, I dis­cov­ered that it was Stage 2B and that there were treat­ment op­tions avail­able, in­clud­ing chemother­a­py and ra­di­a­tion.

De­spite hav­ing to con­duct an al­most com­plete over­haul of their lay­out and lo­gis­tics in the lead-up to PRES­tige Fete 2026, the event man­age­ment team of the Alum­ni of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do says they are on track to ex­ceed past ex­pec­ta­tions with this year’s all-in­clu­sive event.

As the Na­tion­al Dance As­so­ci­a­tion (NDA) en­ters its 45th year, the or­gan­i­sa­tion finds it­self at a crit­i­cal junc­ture. While the as­so­ci­a­tion is re­spect­ed for its lega­cy, the mem­bers are aware that lega­cy alone can­not car­ry dance in­to the fu­ture.

“I found it very full of death and cold.” Wendy Doniger’s re­ac­tion to the Taj Ma­hal ap­pears in An Amer­i­can Girl in In­dia: Let­ters and Rec­ol­lec­tions, 1963–64. The ex­tract pub­lished here is tak­en from that book.

The evo­lu­tion of cer­vi­cal can­cer man­age­ment is wide­ly re­gard­ed as one of the great­est suc­cess sto­ries in mod­ern med­i­cine, il­lus­trat­ing how pre­ven­tion, ear­ly de­tec­tion, and pub­lic health pol­i­cy can dra­mat­i­cal­ly re­duce can­cer bur­den. Yet, this suc­cess has been un­even, with pro­found dis­par­i­ties be­tween high-in­come coun­tries and many low- and mid­dle-in­come coun­tries (LMICs).

To res­i­dents of tenth Street, Techi­er Vil­lage, Point Fortin, Myr­tle Mau­rice-Bai­ley, known wide­ly as Ma Bai­ley, will al­ways be one of the pil­lars of their com­mu­ni­ty.

Parang en­thu­si­asts will gath­er to cel­e­brate the Feasts of the Epiphany and the Bap­tism of the Lord when Par­ran­deros meet at St Michael’s Ro­man Catholic Church, Mara­cas, St Joseph, to­day.

When the cur­tain ris­es at 7 pm to­mor­row at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, for Lega­cy—the Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Band Fi­nals—16 steel or­ches­tras will take the stage, ready for in­tense ad­ju­di­ca­tion in one of the fes­ti­val’s most keen­ly con­test­ed cat­e­gories.

For gen­er­a­tions, the im­age of a dancer bend­ing im­pos­si­bly low be­neath a flam­ing bar has been one of T&T’s most en­dur­ing cul­tur­al sym­bols. That tra­di­tion will re­claim cen­tre stage this month with the re­launch of the Na­tion­al Lim­bo Com­pe­ti­tion, fol­low­ing an 18-year ab­sence from the na­tion­al cal­en­dar.

At just 22, Paris Coutain is carv­ing out a dis­tinc­tive space with­in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mu­sic in­dus­try, blend­ing per­for­mance, so­cial com­men­tary and genre-cross­ing ap­peal.