Al­though T&T’s first no­table par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Sum­mer Olympics was in 1948 in the Lon­don Olympics, it wasn’t un­til 1972 that this coun­try had a fe­male ath­lete par­tic­i­pat­ing in the games.

Sole and Sanaa Fred­er­ick are part of T&T’s 17-mem­ber con­tin­gent at the Paris Olympics which got un­der­way on Fri­day.

This Sun­day’s book­shelf spot­lights ac­claimed writer and artist Shani Mootoo, who was born in Ire­land, raised in T&T, and re­lo­cat­ed to Cana­da in her ear­ly twen­ties.

How­ev­er, she will­ing­ly ad­mits that while teach­ing can be tremen­dous­ly ful­fill­ing, it al­so has its chal­lenges.

My Cul­ture and Me, a colour­ing book de­signed and pro­duced by au­thor and po­et Keeron Isaac, 28, her­alds T&T’s many won­ders, in­clud­ing birds, Car­ni­val, cui­sine, and tra­di­tion­al mas char­ac­ters. It is part of his pub­li­ca­tion, Po­et Tree, the first in­stal­ment in a tril­o­gy of po­et­ry.

The 22nd edi­tion of the Laven­tille Eman­ci­pa­tion Steel­band Fes­ti­val and Pa­rade host­ed by the Laven­tille Steel­band Fes­ti­val Foun­da­tion (LSFF), takes place in Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille on Au­gust 3 from 5 pm to mid­night.

Through­out her life, Di­ane Hen­der­son has al­ways been first to do some­thing un­usu­al. There­fore, it was no sur­prise when the ex­pe­ri­enced sports ad­min­is­tra­tor was elect­ed the first fe­male Pres­i­dent of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC).

Next Sat­ur­day, one day af­ter her 22nd birth­day, so­pra­no Clarice Beep­ut will con­front one of her biggest fears when she sings Mozart’s “Ex­sul­tate, Ju­bi­late” at a con­cert in Port-of-Spain.

Ch­agua­nas res­i­dent Ke­to­nia Do­minique, 25, cre­at­ed lo­cal avi­a­tion his­to­ry when on Ju­ly 11 she com­plet­ed her train­ing to at­tain her com­mer­cial pi­lot li­cence, mak­ing her the first lo­cal­ly trained fe­male com­mer­cial pi­lot.

The an­nu­al lun­cheon for grad­u­ates of Bish­op Anstey High School, St Hi­lary’s, last Sat­ur­day, took on spe­cial mean­ing as this year the school is cel­e­brat­ing its 103rd an­niver­sary.

To mark the oc­ca­sion the Em­bassy of the Ar­gen­tine Re­pub­lic in part­ner­ship with Guardian Me­dia Ltd screened Soc­cer Soul: Eli­jo Creer an Ar­gen­tine Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion doc­u­men­tary on the Ar­gen­tine Foot­ball team fea­tur­ing Li­onel Mes­si at Movi­eTowne, Port -of-Spain on Tues­day evening.

The T&T Heart Foun­da­tion (TTHF) has long been at the fore­front of com­bat­ing car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease (CVD) and pro­mot­ing heart health.