As a gy­nae­co­log­i­cal on­col­o­gist, cer­vi­cal can­cer to me is not just a sta­tis­tic. It is a di­ag­no­sis I de­liv­er all too of­ten and a sto­ry that does not al­ways end as we hoped.

There are many chal­lenges that we go through as women as we age. Dur­ing menopause, women tend to ex­pe­ri­ence many dif­fer­ent symp­toms. Typ­i­cal­ly, women ex­pe­ri­ence menopause be­tween the ages of 45 and 55 years. Some women ex­pe­ri­ence this tran­si­tion ear­li­er or lat­er in life. Menopause can be de­fined as the end of men­stru­a­tion. Usu­al­ly, it is di­ag­nosed af­ter about one year with­out a pe­ri­od.

As a graph­ic de­sign­er by train­ing, she has built a sol­id, 15-year ca­reer in graph­ic de­sign and al­so ex­pand­ed her cre­ativ­i­ty or­gan­i­cal­ly in­to fash­ion and cos­tume de­sign, where she has spent the last decade bring­ing char­ac­ters and con­cepts to life. Win­ches­ter is al­so a wife and moth­er of two, roles that, like her work, de­mand her en­er­gy, de­vot­ed pres­ence and con­stant care. A lover of colour, tex­ture and trav­el, her cre­ative jour­ney places vi­brance and evo­lu­tion at the core, and she has re­cent­ly tak­en her tal­ents in­to a new field with the cre­ation of her self-care jour­nal, Root­ed.

For many women, painful pe­ri­ods have been con­sid­ered a nor­mal part of life. Young girls are of­ten told to “bear with it,” while old­er women silent­ly tol­er­ate dis­com­fort month af­ter month. But as a gy­nae­col­o­gist, I want to make one thing very clear: se­vere or dis­abling pe­ri­od pain is not nor­mal and should nev­er be ig­nored.

Hav­ing to change the lo­ca­tion of a large-scale, all-in­clu­sive Car­ni­val event is no small task, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing a sea­son when large, sought-af­ter venues are booked quick­ly and of­ten months be­fore­hand.

Colour My Fan­ta­sy J’Ou­vert band, which be­gan in 2012, con­tin­ues to build on its lega­cy of cul­tur­al re­vival and tra­di­tion­al Car­ni­val ex­pres­sion, ac­cord­ing to band spokesman Varoun Har­rimun­gal.

As a uni­ver­si­ty fo­cused on us­ing re­search for the up­lift­ment of its com­mu­ni­ty, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine (UWI STA), the pre­mier ter­tiary in­sti­tu­tion in the re­gion, pro­duc­ing world-class schol­ars, be­lieves sci­ence should be ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic. We are pleased to present our me­dia se­ries, UWI Sci­en­tists Speak. To­day, we hear from Dr Amy Dea­con and Pro­fes­sor In­dar Ram­nar­ine from the Fac­ul­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy about their re­search on the Trinidad Gup­py.

When it comes to her craft, Karene As­che knows where her strengths lie, and she leaves no room for weak­ness­es.

At 33, Naki­ta Hy­atali stands as one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most ver­sa­tile cre­atives, with a ca­reer span­ning fash­ion de­sign, car­ni­val pro­duc­tion, and cre­ative di­rec­tion. Her jour­ney has been shaped by pa­tience, ed­u­ca­tion, and hands-on ex­pe­ri­ence, a path she de­scribes as de­lib­er­ate rather than rushed.

In a Car­ni­val econ­o­my dri­ven by speed—faster re­leas­es, loud­er hooks, vi­ral mo­ments mea­sured in hours rather than years—Den­zel Coutain is mov­ing de­lib­er­ate­ly against the cur­rent.

If Jah­mike “Chris­to” Bonas had not gone on In­sta­gram on a par­tic­u­lar day last year, one of his best songs may nev­er have ex­ist­ed. It was a quick DM (di­rect mes­sage) to a pro­duc­er about a con­cept that even­tu­al­ly led to the cre­ation of Doux Doux Dar­lin — one of the sweet­est tunes for the 2026 Car­ni­val sea­son.

With words of praise, prayer and thanks­giv­ing echo­ing through the streets of Wood­brook, devo­tees and sup­port­ers gath­ered on Jan­u­ary 24 for the an­nu­al Obata­la Fes­ti­val—a sa­cred cel­e­bra­tion ho­n­our­ing one of the most revered Orisa in the Ifa Orisa tra­di­tion.