About a year and half ago–on May 24, 2023, to be pre­cise–the com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al was di­ag­nosed with in­flam­ma­to­ry breast can­cer (IBC). Ban­nis­ter kicked off Pink Oc­to­ber with the cel­e­bra­tion of her birth­day on the very first day of the month.

It is no se­cret that Trin­bag­o­ni­ans love two things—to eat and get a dis­count. T&T Restau­rant Week (TTRW) ticks both of those box­es, al­low­ing pa­trons to try new restau­rants and off-menu items at heav­i­ly dis­count­ed prices.

Mrs In­dia World­wide is a renowned beau­ty pageant that cel­e­brates the strength, con­fi­dence, and achieve­ments of mar­ried women from around the world.

Chevaughn Joseph, founder of The Just Be­cause Foun­da­tion (JBF), trans­formed the heart­break of los­ing her son in­to a last­ing source of hope. In 2005, her son Jabez—af­fec­tion­ate­ly called JB—was di­ag­nosed with Alve­o­lar Rhab­domyosar­co­ma, a rare and ag­gres­sive child­hood can­cer, at just three-and-a-half years old. For two years, JB fought with courage, but on March 24, 2007, at the age of five and a half, he passed away, leav­ing an unimag­in­able void in Joseph’s life.

Mrs Glam­our In­ter­na­tion­al, Trinidad and To­ba­go, Sarah In­der­lall, de­scribes her­self as “a proud Trin­bag­on­ian, com­ing from hum­ble be­gin­nings.”

When it comes to the strug­gles and so­lu­tions of East Port-of-Spain, few can speak with au­thor­i­ty quite like Sis­ter Ruth Mon­trichard. The re­li­gious sis­ter at­tached to the Sis­ters of St Joseph of Cluny has spent 50 years work­ing with the Ser­vice Vol­un­teered for All (SER­VOL) Beetham Life Cen­tre.

For the first time ever, a Caribbean-style Car­ni­val will be held in Dubai from No­vem­ber 29 to De­cem­ber 2, 2024.

Con­fi­dent­ly rock­ing her new bald head, the for­mer Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go made Guardian Me­dia stu­dios her run­way as she walked to­wards the in­ter­view set.

Black Col­lar Cre­ative Foun­da­tion will hold its in­au­gur­al event, The Black Col­lar Gala: Clas­sics and Ca­lyp­sos, on Oc­to­ber 4 at 7 pm at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.

Camille Par­ris-Hinds views her three-year-old daugh­ter Cyd­ni's phys­i­cal chal­lenges as a gift from God. Each time she looks in­to Cyd­ni's face, joy fills her heart.

Sagaboi’s Spring/Sum­mer 2025 col­lec­tion en­ti­tled Out and Bad has cap­ti­vat­ed in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ences in Lon­don and Mi­lan with its vi­brant fu­sion of fash­ion, crafts­man­ship, and Caribbean cul­ture.

It was the 19th-cen­tu­ry French painter Paul Gau­guin who once said of art, “It is a ques­tion of how to be rich in spir­it rather than rich in ma­te­r­i­al.” Those are words al­most every artist lives by.