When a med­ical mis­di­ag­no­sis drove her to seek her own an­swers, Dr Stephanie Mo­hammed un­cov­ered the pas­sion and pur­pose of her life. Mo­hammed, along with a team, is lead­ing ground­break­ing re­search on Poly­cys­tic Ovary Syn­drome (PCOS) a con­di­tion that af­fects many women world­wide.

For­mer Trinidad Guardian ed­i­tor-in-chief Do­minic Kaliper­sad has been award­ed a spe­cial ci­ta­tion by the May­or of New York City, Er­ic Adams. The Cer­tifi­cate of Recog­ni­tion was pre­sent­ed to him at the Brook­lyn Caribbean Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val (BCLF), which was held in Brook­lyn, New York City, USA, Sep­tem­ber 5-8.

Her faith has been the cen­tre­piece of her life, with her fam­i­ly be­ing the bedrock. Her very name, Ghenere, means God’s gift. She’s spent the last decade fo­cus­ing on in­spir­ing women to live their best lives.

The Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute (WAND) Foun­da­tion’s Den­im and Di­a­monds par­ty, one of its an­nu­al sig­na­ture events, held at the Res­i­dence Night­club last week­end, was a tremen­dous suc­cess.

Ghana-born T&T film­mak­er Yao Rame­sar has won yet an­oth­er award, this time in Cana­da—Best Film at the In­ter­na­tion­al Mo­tion Pic­ture Awards in Toron­to.

“I’ve al­ways been in­to sports, an ac­tive lifestyle since I could walk,” says Nathaniel Alexan­der, who iden­ti­fies as an ath­lete. In his ear­ly days, he first got ac­quaint­ed with crick­et when he was two years old and has played the sport ever since.

In­spired by God, “Can­dle­light Re­flec­tions with Christ” is Vernie Vic­to­ria Ap­pi­ah’s de­but book.

Tshenelle Bethel-Pe­ters, known on so­cial me­dia as Nel­ly B, is on a jour­ney to re­dis­cov­er her per­son­al style. The con­tent cre­ator—a grad­u­ate of Holy Faith Con­vent, Cou­va—re­cent­ly start­ed dab­bling more with fash­ion and beau­ty re­views. She, how­ev­er, is not the typ­i­cal fash­ion in­flu­encer mar­keter.

Raquel An­drews-Morales has been a vol­un­teer with the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team for about a year and a half.

In a com­mu­ni­ca­tions ca­reer that has spanned 15 years, Nys­sa Pierre has nev­er had a task on her hands quite like this one. On Au­gust 27, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) named the T&T na­tion­al its new Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Me­dia Man­ag­er.

This week, the book­shelf spot­lights a writer who re­mains anony­mous. She writes as if she’s speak­ing with dis­arm­ing hon­esty, and her con­nec­tion with women read­ers is in­stant. Her books have sold over 30 mil­lion copies world­wide and have been trans­lat­ed in­to more than 40 lan­guages.

At just eight years old, Amayah Wal­lace-Aniebonam is al­ready mak­ing a mark in chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture. With en­cour­age­ment from her moth­er, Al­isha Wal­lace, what be­gan as a sim­ple school as­sign­ment has evolved in­to her de­but book, The Quest for the Gold­en Di­a­mond, a sto­ry filled with ad­ven­ture, friend­ship, and courage which takes young read­ers on an ex­cit­ing ad­ven­ture through the Night­mare Jun­gle.