Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador Ál­varo En­rique Sánchez Cordero says ca­lyp­so, so­ca and steel­pan are as beloved in Venezuela as parang, cu­a­tro and the shak-shak are in T&T.

Menopause and per­i­menopause are fi­nal­ly get­ting the na­tion­al at­ten­tion they de­serve. The Min­istry of Health (MOH) has of­fi­cial­ly made this as­pect of women’s health a pri­or­i­ty—a ma­jor step for­ward for women across the coun­try.

Maria­ma Bâ was born in 1929 in Dakar, Sene­gal, then part of French West Africa. She came from a promi­nent Lebu fam­i­ly: her fa­ther, Amadou Bâ, was a civ­il ser­vant who be­came one of in­de­pen­dent Sene­gal’s first min­is­ters, serv­ing as Min­is­ter of Health in 1956 (Eu­ro­peana). Her moth­er died when she was young, and she was raised by her ma­ter­nal grand­moth­er in a de­vout Mus­lim house­hold.

Born in Bal­ti­more in the Unit­ed States to Trinida­di­an par­ents, Lau­ren Fran­cis-Shar­ma has built an ac­claimed lit­er­ary ca­reer by un­earthing hid­den his­to­ries and un­told truths.

For Mari­ah Ramharack, the path to be­com­ing one of the Caribbean’s most recog­nis­able sports broad­cast­ers be­gan in the close-knit com­mu­ni­ty of El Do­ra­do, Trinidad. Most re­cent­ly the co-host of Sports­Max Zone—once one of the re­gion’s most pop­u­lar sports pro­grammes be­fore go­ing off air—Ramharack kept au­di­ences in­formed and en­ter­tained while con­duct­ing some of the most mem­o­rable in­ter­views with Caribbean sport­ing he­roes. She has soared above and be­yond in a tra­di­tion­al­ly male-dom­i­nat­ed field, es­tab­lish­ing a re­spect­ed pres­ence in Caribbean sports me­dia.

It is said that hind­sight is al­ways 20/20, and in ret­ro­spect, Natasha Bhall-Di­als­ingh has a clear­er view of why, 11 years ago, she found her­self mak­ing a ca­reer change.

In a coun­try where di­verse cul­tures blend seam­less­ly, de­sign­er Ne­ha Ka­ri­na Dawar has cap­tured the essence of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mul­ti­cul­tur­al soul. She has made it her mis­sion to bridge cul­tures in style, craft­ing cou­ture that ho­n­ours tra­di­tion while em­brac­ing moder­ni­ty.

It is well known both amongst our women and the broad­er pop­u­la­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go that breast screen­ing has some neg­a­tive per­cep­tions. The fact is that not many women screen. And even for those who do per­form breast screen­ing, they al­ways have a lot of con­cerns. Be­yond that, there are even more con­cerns and mis­con­cep­tions among the women who avoid screen­ing.

On No­vem­ber 9, Star Wars en­thu­si­asts — and even those who may have missed the orig­i­nal mag­ic but still yearn to ex­pe­ri­ence it — are in­vit­ed to gath­er at Arn­im’s Art Gal­le­ria, 27 Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, for a tru­ly rare, one-day cel­e­bra­tion of the beloved in­ter­galac­tic saga.

Oc­to­ber, Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month. was a time to shine a light on the most com­mon can­cer af­fect­ing women across the globe.

Ladies came out in their evening out­fits at the Mc­Cain and Had­co Group of Com­pa­nies’ dis­trib­u­tors launch held at The Forge Trinidad.

Two voic­es stood out at this year’s Catholic Charis­mat­ic Re­new­al Bi­en­ni­al Gospe­lyp­so Com­pe­ti­tion, as Ker­ine Williams-Fi­garo and Em­ma-Ruiz Charles sang their way to vic­to­ry be­fore an ap­pre­cia­tive au­di­ence at the Lord Kitch­en­er Au­di­to­ri­um, Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA), Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 19.