Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence Aware­ness Month, ob­served every Oc­to­ber, is a pe­ri­od ded­i­cat­ed to rais­ing aware­ness about the preva­lence and im­pact of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence. This month-long cam­paign aims to ed­u­cate the pub­lic about the signs of abuse and the re­sources avail­able to vic­tims. 

Per­haps it was al­ways her des­tiny to be some­one who saves the en­vi­ron­ment. Long be­fore she got in­to cli­mate change, Ruean­na Haynes was a child who loved watch­ing Cap­tain Plan­et.

A new air­line with a fa­mil­iar name, LI­AT 2020 is a lo­cal­ly in­cor­po­rat­ed com­pa­ny owned by the Gov­ern­ment of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and Air Peace Caribbean.

Vanes­sa Ra­moutar-Singh, a teacher with 20 years of ex­pe­ri­ence, has had the priv­i­lege of ed­u­cat­ing nu­mer­ous Pres­i­dent’s Medal win­ners and schol­ar­ship win­ners.

When Trinida­di­an jour­nal­ist Patrice Grell-Yur­sik start­ed her hair and beau­ty blog in 2006, so­cial me­dia was still young. YouTube wasn’t the video archiv­ing be­he­moth it is to­day. If you want­ed to learn how to deal with nat­ur­al afro-tex­tured hair, you were head­ing to a blog host­ed on Word­Press or Blog­ger for in­for­ma­tion.

World Men­tal Health Day, ob­served on Oc­to­ber 10 each year, is a glob­al ini­tia­tive aimed at rais­ing aware­ness about men­tal health is­sues and mo­bil­is­ing ef­forts to sup­port men­tal well-be­ing.

Mel Gabriel is usu­al­ly the pro­duc­er be­hind a fash­ion shoot. She is known for cu­rat­ing the best of the Caribbean when it comes to fash­ion and cre­ativ­i­ty for her fash­ion and style plat­form, Caribbean Look­book.

The mor­tal­i­ty rate of breast can­cer in T&T has been es­ti­mat­ed at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 23 per 100,000 women, with one in nine women de­vel­op­ing breast can­cer in their life­time.

About a year and half ago–on May 24, 2023, to be pre­cise–the com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al was di­ag­nosed with in­flam­ma­to­ry breast can­cer (IBC). Ban­nis­ter kicked off Pink Oc­to­ber with the cel­e­bra­tion of her birth­day on the very first day of the month.

In 2023, Maris­sa Yung Lee was award­ed a dis­tinc­tion by the pres­ti­gious Por­trait So­ci­ety of Amer­i­ca for their an­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Por­trait Com­pe­ti­tion. This year she was award­ed a cer­tifi­cate of ex­cel­lence from the so­ci­ety. On both oc­ca­sions, it was for her paint­ings of Blue Dev­il kid­dies.

In hu­man­i­ty’s quest to an­swer ques­tions about the vast cos­mos we are a part of, Trinidad and To­ba­go-born Dr Camille Wardrop Al­leyne has been at the fore­front of ef­forts to learn more about our galaxy.

A pas­tor is de­fined as a Chris­t­ian leader re­spon­si­ble for guid­ing a con­gre­ga­tion, preach­ing, teach­ing, and pro­vid­ing spir­i­tu­al care. Kim­rol Ali, who preach­es at the Evan­gel Tem­ple in Barataria, is an ex­am­ple of this de­f­i­n­i­tion.