He spends his days weigh­ing life-al­ter­ing ver­dicts in a de­mand­ing pro­fes­sion, but High Court judge Kevin Ram­cha­ran’s tough­est op­po­nent is usu­al­ly the clock.

Con­junc­tivi­tis, or red eye, is in­flam­ma­tion of the con­junc­ti­va (the thin lay­er that lines the white part of the eye and the in­side of the eye­lid).

Years ago, Pa­lo Seco was a unique mul­ti­cul­tur­al melt­ing pot, draw­ing peo­ple from across the Caribbean, as well as ex­pa­tri­ates from the Unit­ed States and Cana­da who came to work in the pe­tro­le­um in­dus­try.

World Steel­pan Day 2026 will be cel­e­brat­ed on to­mor­row with a full day of per­for­mances, an An­ces­tral Walk and a ma­jor youth show­case at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

The on­line pro­gramme dis­cussed mon­u­ments and re-en­act­ments in the Gir­mi­tiya in­den­tured In­di­an di­as­po­ra. It ex­plored how mon­u­ments, memo­ri­als and his­tor­i­cal re-en­act­ments shape col­lec­tive mem­o­ry in the di­as­po­ra. In coun­tries such as In­dia, Fi­ji, Mau­ri­tius, Réu­nion, South Africa, Guyana, Suri­name, and Trinidad and To­ba­go, com­mu­ni­ties have cre­at­ed phys­i­cal and per­for­ma­tive spaces to com­mem­o­rate the his­to­ry and ex­pe­ri­ences of in­den­tured labour­ers and their de­scen­dants. By ex­am­in­ing these sites of re­mem­brance, the dis­cus­sion high­light­ed how her­itage, iden­ti­ty and cul­tur­al re­silience have been pre­served and trans­mit­ted across gen­er­a­tions.

In homes across Trinidad and be­yond, her voice and writ­ings have long been a fa­mil­iar pres­ence—in the­atre halls, on vil­lage stages, and in the qui­et spaces where cul­ture is re­mem­bered, re­vived and reimag­ined.

“…Al­bert Gomes fad­ed from na­tion­al con­scious­ness… His suc­cess­es are for­got­ten…” This analy­sis by Je­re­my Tay­lor, in 2004 in Caribbean Beat, ac­cu­rate­ly de­picts the man­ner in which a fight­er for the voice­less and dis­pos­sessed has been rel­e­gat­ed to the dust­bin of Caribbean his­to­ry.

Tech­nol­o­gy may have been the rea­son every­one gath­ered, but it was the con­ver­sa­tions, con­nec­tions and un­for­get­table culi­nary ex­pe­ri­ence that made the evening one to re­mem­ber.

Lo­cal en­ter­tain­er Roland “Rem­Bunc­tion” Year­wood has been fas­ci­nat­ed by pup­petry since child­hood. In fact, you can see the art­form in many of his com­e­dy sketch­es on so­cial me­dia. But apart from the fun of it, he un­der­stands its role in en­cour­ag­ing cre­ativ­i­ty, self-ex­pres­sion and pre­serv­ing cul­tur­al her­itage–all of which he hopes chil­dren can gain from his up­com­ing work­shop, Pup­pet Pavil­ion.

As Panazz: The Sto­ry is cel­e­brat­ed in Wash­ing­ton, DC, on Tues­day to mark World Steel­pan Day, for­mer Panazz leader and mu­si­cal di­rec­tor Bar­ry Bartholomew is re­flect­ing on the un­like­ly jour­ney that trans­formed a Har­vard school as­sign­ment in­to an in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed doc­u­men­tary.

For USM­NT (US Men’s Na­tion­al Team) and FC Dal­las de­fend­er Shaque­ll “Shaq” Moore, giv­ing back to com­mu­ni­ties through sport has been a ma­jor high­light of his ca­reer.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brates World Steel­pan Day on Au­gust 11, recog­nis­ing the on­ly acoustic mu­si­cal in­stru­ment in­vent­ed in the 20th cen­tu­ry, the con­ver­sa­tion in­evitably turns to the fu­ture. If you want to know if the fu­ture of the na­tion­al in­stru­ment is se­cure, look no fur­ther than the qui­et, lush agri­cul­tur­al vil­lage of Biche in east Trinidad.