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.

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.

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.

For 41-year-old Lu­an­na Dun­can, the fight against stage four breast can­cer is about more than en­dur­ing treat­ment, man­ag­ing pain and hold­ing on to hope.

Vance Riv­er, La Brea, res­i­dent Den­zil Ed­wards’ jour­ney is a clear ex­am­ple of a 360-de­gree turn­around: from be­ing boot­ed out of a youth camp to forg­ing a tem­po­rary life in Cana­da and toil­ing in agri­cul­tur­al fields, he has learned that a sim­ple life is worth liv­ing.

With decades of ex­pe­ri­ence as a nurse, Denise Gibbs-Clarke was fa­mil­iar with the strug­gles can­cer pa­tients faced. Yet when she was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer in 2023, her un­der­stand­ing of the dis­ease took on a whole new mean­ing.

There were no po­lit­i­cal di­vi­sions, re­li­gious dif­fer­ences or racial bar­ri­ers when the aro­ma of fresh­ly made dou­bles filled the air on Re­pub­lic Day.

A plate of buf­fa­lo galawati ke­babs ar­rives at the ta­ble at Tun­day Kababi, a fa­mous restau­rant in Phool Wali Gali, a nar­row lane in Luc­know’s old quar­ter.

When nurse Rachael Ab­so­lam-Browne joined the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s On­col­o­gy and Haema­tol­ogy De­part­ment around eight years ago, she did not know that, two years lat­er, she would be­come a pa­tient in that same ward.