In­ter­na­tion­al Game Tech­nol­o­gy (IGT), a glob­al leader in gam­ing, to­day an­nounced a tech­nol­o­gy do­na­tion to the LIFE (Learn­ing Is For Every­one) Cen­tre in Cas­cade in recog­ni­tion of Autism Aware­ness Month.

Matu­ra’s leatherback tur­tle nest­ing sea­son is be­ing threat­ened by an ac­cu­mu­la­tion of sar­gas­sum sea­weed.

“Just ex­press­ing my­self on pa­per brought me ease and hap­pi­ness, which I had nev­er ex­pe­ri­enced,” she re­called.

Books by al­ready cel­e­brat­ed au­thors from Trinidad and To­ba­go and Haiti have won the po­et­ry, fic­tion, and non-fic­tion cat­e­gories of the 2025 OCM Bo­cas Prize for Caribbean Lit­er­a­ture.

Ter­ence Pieters was an ar­dent surfer and pro­fes­sion­al boo­gie board­er be­fore a shoul­der in­jury halt­ed his com­pet­i­tive ca­reer.

The Coun­selling De­part­ment of Ser­vol’s South/Cen­tral Zone held its An­ti-Bul­ly­ing Walk on March 28 to de­liv­er a strong mes­sage of ze­ro tol­er­ance for all forms of bul­ly­ing.

From lo­cal ser­vice to re­gion­al ser­vice, Ria Boodoo is on the rise. If the name sounds fa­mil­iar, she once served in rep­re­sen­ta­tive pol­i­tics at the lo­cal gov­ern­ment lev­el as coun­cil­lor for the Ma­coya/Trinci­ty dis­trict. Her work in sus­tain­abil­i­ty hasn’t on­ly been long-stand­ing, but it is al­so her pas­sion.

Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed, through its Women’s Em­pow­er­ment mag­a­zine, host­ed a spe­cial din­ner on April 3 to cel­e­brate the cul­mi­na­tion of its Nisaa of Is­lam se­ries, fea­tur­ing in­spir­ing Mus­lim women from T&T. The event, held at GM Labs, brought to­geth­er par­tic­i­pants from both Sea­son 1 and Sea­son 2 of the se­ries.

Of­ten de­scribed along with oth­er neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal dis­or­ders as a “silent con­di­tion” due to it not al­ways be­ing vi­su­al­ly or im­me­di­ate­ly ap­par­ent, Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der (wide­ly called autism) af­fects ap­prox­i­mate­ly one in 36 chil­dren glob­al­ly (CDC, 2024) and 15,000-17,000 peo­ple in T&T (Autism So­ci­ety of T&T, 2014).

“Cre­ativ­i­ty and the act of cre­ativ­i­ty are hu­man-on­ly skills. We have been cre­at­ing ever since cave draw­ings.” Tes­sa Alexan­der (Tes­sa Alexan­der Sloane-Seale) is a pro­fes­sion­al artist by trade, but her work, along with the na­ture and sub­ject mat­ters of her art, has made her a his­to­ri­an, a so­ci­ol­o­gist and a busi­ness­woman all in one.

To­ba­go Fash­ion Co­da is back with a bang. Af­ter a hia­tus, the Run­way Meets Rhythm spec­tac­u­lar promis­es to be un­for­get­table.

From the mo­ment she could walk, sev­en-year-old Atarah Bachan was al­ways in mo­tion, kick­ing a ball, swing­ing a bat, or throw­ing stones at the man­go tree in the back­yard. Her love for sports was ev­i­dent.