The earth is the Lord’s, and the ful­ness there­of; the world, and they that dwell there­in (Psalm 24:1).

Free­town Col­lec­tive will be in the spot­light as the Bo­cas Lit Fest hosts a spe­cial edi­tion of Kaiso Con­ver­sa­tions. It comes as Bo­cas cel­e­brates

Death is one of life’s few cer­tain­ties. We know that every life must even­tu­al­ly end, yet noth­ing tru­ly pre­pares us for the mo­ment some­one or a pet we love is gone.

Oc­to­ber is the Month of Learn­ing Dif­fi­cul­ties, but let’s change that name. How about the Month of Learn­ing Dif­fer­ent­ly? Some brains just work in unique, amaz­ing ways!

Per­haps your clothes fit dif­fer­ent­ly and los­ing weight feels hard­er than it used to. You may even no­tice that you do not feel as strong as be­fore.

Er­il Gar­cia is gen­er­al­ly not one to al­low dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances to keep her down. So when she was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer at 45, as scared as she was, she took time to process what was hap­pen­ing, then did what was nec­es­sary to get her­self back to a pos­i­tive place.

Joseph stared at the blue­print for the de­vel­op­ment, as he had done about a hun­dred times be­fore. This was his largest in­vest­ment to date, and he had to make sure that noth­ing went wrong. When com­plet­ed, it would be one of the most sought-af­ter places to live. The acres of space, the seclu­sion, the pic­turesque views along the steep, wind­ing roads, the lux­u­ri­ous fa­cil­i­ties home­own­ers could ac­cess; he had out­done him­self this time.

For years, Mar­cus Prince re­ceived com­pli­ments on his sense of fash­ion. But one day, when a close friend sought as­sis­tance in choos­ing some out­fits, he thought, “Maybe help­ing oth­ers in this way could be a busi­ness ven­ture.” And now, he has of­fi­cial­ly opened his first phys­i­cal lo­ca­tion for Prince, his very own lux­u­ry menswear brand in Port-of-Spain.

As Score4Can­cer us­es foot­ball to raise aware­ness about the dis­ease, one sur­vivor re­flects on the di­ag­no­sis, treat­ment and life af­ter can­cer.

Chi­nese Ar­rival Day will be ob­served on Oc­to­ber 12. This year marks the 220th an­niver­sary of the ar­rival of the first group of Chi­nese mi­grants to Trinidad and To­ba­go, with 192 mi­grants aboard the For­ti­tude in 1806.

Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al San Fer­nan­do host­ed a fundrais­er, the Pink, Pearls and Pinot Gala, at the Le Reve Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, C3 Cen­tre, San Fer­nan­do, on Sep­tem­ber 6.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go bids farewell to the Mighty Spar­row to­day, the mem­o­ries of a mu­si­cal gi­ant live on through the per­for­mances that cap­ti­vat­ed gen­er­a­tions.