Dur­ing a can­dle­light vig­il held in hon­or of Dr Sis­ter Phyl­lis Wharfe who re­ceived this year’s Medal of Mer­it Gold for her work in Ed­u­ca­tion and the Em­pow­er­ment of Women from Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes on Tues­day evening heard glow­ing at­trib­ut­es of her as a pil­lar of strength, which is no­ble and vir­tu­ous.

The JMMB Group Ltd’s ad­di­tion­al pub­lic of­fer of or­di­nary shares was over­sub­scribed by 92.5 per cent.

T&T’s Noah Pow­der had an as­sist and al­so scored as his Re­al Mon­archs lift­ed a first-ever Unit­ed Soc­cer Cham­pi­onship crown with a 3-1 tri­umph over Louisville City FC at Lynn Sta­di­um, Louisville, Ken­tucky on Sun­day.

Nneka Jones al­ways had an as­tound­ing love for colour and spe­cial at­ten­tion to de­tail. She ad­mits that the Trin­bag­on­ian cul­ture has al­ways been promi­nent through­out her artis­tic jour­ney. The artist was nev­er one to ac­cept medi­oc­rity, not on­ly in art, but al­so in her every­day life and has al­ways been will­ing to take on a chal­lenge. This led her to take the risk of leav­ing be­hind her fam­i­ly and friends to trav­el the world in pur­suit of both shar­ing and gain­ing ver­sa­tile ex­pe­ri­ences that would en­hance her artistry.

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MS­DFS) con­tin­ues its ag­gres­sive cam­paign to get so­cial ser­vices to the doorsteps of cit­i­zens in T&T. Since the launch of the Min­istry’s So­cial Out­reach and Im­pact Car­a­van, on Au­gust 30, at the Pa­lo Seco Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, in ex­cess of a dozen com­mu­ni­ties have al­ready ben­e­fit­ed from hav­ing Gov­ern­ment Ser­vices avail­able to them. These com­mu­ni­ties in­clude Fyz­abad, San Fer­nan­do, Point Fortin, Ce­dros, San­gre Grande, Cumana, To­co, Diego Mar­tin and Care­nage, Va­len­cia, Man­zanil­la, Guaico Tamana, and Mor­vant, Port-of-Spain.

I can stand proud as a Hin­du woman to­day be­cause Mr Sat­narayan Ma­haraj paved the way for all Hin­dus through­out this twin-is­land Re­pub­lic, to ac­cept and em­brace who we are.