The fifth edi­tion of The French Panora­ma, a vir­tu­al steel­band com­pe­ti­tion held in France, took place on Sat­ur­day. Pre­sent­ed by the French Panora­ma As­so­ci­a­tion (FPA), the event was host­ed by its pres­i­dent and di­rec­tor, Wan­da Atkins.

Krys­tle Phillips did not en­ter agri­cul­ture through pol­i­cy, train­ing, or even in­ten­tion; she ar­rived there by recog­nis­ing a gap that sits at the heart of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s biggest eco­nom­ic prob­lems: food im­ports. A “born and bred Laven­til­lean”, her ear­li­est ex­po­sure to agri­cul­ture came from her fa­ther, even though she did not recog­nise it at the time. She re­mem­bers her fa­ther as “an ur­ban farmer” who sold eggs, chick­ens, peas, and oth­er goods to sup­port the house­hold. To­day, that mem­o­ry sits with her not on­ly as a guid­ing force in her line of work, but couched with­in a much larg­er na­tion­al is­sue, one where lo­cal agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion re­mains un­der­de­vel­oped, and bil­lions are spent an­nu­al­ly bring­ing food in­to the coun­try.

Mu­sic lovers turned out in full force on East­er Sun­day for the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val’s 2026 stag­ing of “Jazz in Red – The Love Af­fair,” trans­form­ing the grounds of Cipri­ani Col­lege in­to a sea of colour, rhythm, and style.

Your safe­ty on the road does not be­gin when you shift in­to dri­ve; it ac­tu­al­ly comes down to the crit­i­cal few min­utes be­fore you even turn the ig­ni­tion key. Get­ting in­to the dai­ly habit of per­form­ing a “two-minute walka­round” can pre­vent un­ex­pect­ed blowouts, sud­den en­gine fail­ure, and in­cred­i­bly un­safe dri­ving con­di­tions. It on­ly takes a mo­ment, but it can save you hours of stress.

The sub­con­scious mind holds a lot of in­for­ma­tion that works be­hind the scenes to shape the ac­tions and re­ac­tions of hu­man be­ings. Hyp­nother­a­pist Sreshtha Tewari be­lieves her pro­fes­sion has placed her in a po­si­tion to help her clients en­ter their sub­con­scious and try to re­set habits that no longer serve them in a pos­i­tive man­ner.

On May 2 and 3, his pieces will be on dis­play at Samuel’s Yard Wood­turn­ing Art Gallery, at 4 Lawrence Wong Road, Long­denville, from 10 am to 5 pm.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, many women are guilty of ask­ing this ques­tion: “Is it cheap­er to eat well, or are we just be­ing pushed to­wards sup­ple­ments in­stead of re­al food?”

As Autism Aware­ness Month comes to a close, we hear from Genevieve Wal­cott-Daniel the proud moth­er of Zi­dane Daniel, who was di­ag­nosed with autism. Genevieve tells us her fight to give her son a good life and en­sure he is in­clud­ed and re­spect­ed in so­ci­ety.

Em­broi­dery artiste Stephanie Edghill’s youngest fans are her sons—Lu­cas, two-and-a-half years old, and Liam, just eight months. On­ly re­cent­ly, she and Lu­cas were work­ing on a key­chain to­geth­er for a new client; he was help­ing with the glue (don’t wor­ry, not the hot glue kind). Since Liam is too young to be hands-on, she puts him next to her in a laun­dry bas­ket “with some balls to play with. He en­joys that,” she says.

Vagi­nal Birth Af­ter Cae­sare­an, com­mon­ly re­ferred to as VBAC, or tri­al of labour af­ter cae­sare­an, is the process of de­liv­er­ing a ba­by vagi­nal­ly af­ter hav­ing had a pre­vi­ous cae­sare­an sec­tion (C-sec­tion). For many years, the phrase “once a cae­sare­an, al­ways a cae­sare­an” dom­i­nat­ed ob­stet­ric care. To­day, how­ev­er, we know that many women can safe­ly at­tempt a vagi­nal de­liv­ery af­ter a pri­or C-sec­tion, pro­vid­ed cer­tain cri­te­ria are met.

Start­ing over your fit­ness regime every Mon­day af­ter do­ing noth­ing all month feels pro­duc­tive, but it is not.

Nine fi­nal­ists, in­clud­ing five women, have se­cured their places in the Grand Slam of the Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam (NPS) 2026, set­ting the stage for a high-stakes fi­nale at one of the re­gion’s most an­tic­i­pat­ed spo­ken word events.