A 35-stu­dent con­tin­gent from Fa­ti­ma Col­lege joined the world last Sat­ur­day, dur­ing a dri­ve to com­mem­o­rate In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Cleanup Day.

What you wear says some­thing about who you are to peo­ple. Your out­fit is a form of self-ex­pres­sion. It can re­flect your lev­el of con­fi­dence and your mood–whether you are dar­ing, fierce, con­fi­dent, de­lib­er­ate, pur­pose­ful or hap­py.

At on­ly 20 years old, self-de­scribed “nor­mal Gen Z” Maya Kir­ti Nanan has al­ready done years of ex­tra­or­di­nary work. With her re­cent ac­co­lade as the 2023 Com­mon­wealth Young Per­son of the Year a fit­ting trib­ute for her ded­i­ca­tion to peo­ple on the Autism spec­trum, Nanan is a young woman un­doubt­ed­ly de­serv­ing of cel­e­bra­tion. She is the founder and one of the di­rec­tors of the Autism Sib­lings and Friends Net­work (ASFN), a non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion fo­cused on ad­vo­ca­cy for and sup­port of peo­ple with Autism.

With God, fam­i­ly mat­ters. God speaks in the lan­guage of fam­i­ly. Fam­i­ly is a way of think­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing, and func­tion­ing. Fam­i­ly is about iden­ti­ty and in­her­i­tance with­in an in­ti­mate en­vi­ron­ment.

Fly­strike or fly­strike der­mati­tis, med­ical­ly termed as myi­a­sis, is a painful skin con­di­tion caused by flies lay­ing their eggs on an­oth­er an­i­mal. These hatch in­to mag­gots, which eat the flesh of their ‘hosts’.

This week, Book­shelf fea­tures Bermu­di­an writer An­gela Bar­ry, whose nov­el, The Drowned For­est, was pub­lished by Peepal Tree Press in June 2022.

Three out­stand­ing daugh­ters of T&T will be ho­n­oured by the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Fo­rum Trinidad and To­ba­go (IWFTT) at their up­com­ing 2023 In­spi­ra­tional Women Awards Gala. This year marks the IWFTT’s sec­ond year of host­ing the In­spi­ra­tional Women Awards.

When some­one says they are bipo­lar, we may be quick to do one of four things: judge them, dis­tance our­selves, be­come dis­mis­sive, or of­fer un­so­licit­ed ad­vice.

What class re­union in­volves a school tour, a din­ner par­ty, a parang lime in Au­gust, a vis­it to the prin­ci­pal and a con­tri­bu­tion to the school? That’s the way St Au­gus­tine Girls’ High School Class of 1980 chose to cel­e­brate their first ever re­union in Au­gust.

“I’ve learned that peo­ple will for­get what you said, peo­ple will for­get what you did, but peo­ple will nev­er for­get how you made

In a world where judge­ment, crit­i­cism, and com­par­i­son seem to be ever-present, it’s easy to fall vic­tim to feel­ings of in­fe­ri­or­i­ty. We of­ten find our­selves seek­ing val­i­da­tion and ap­proval from oth­ers, al­low­ing their opin­ions to de­fine our self-worth. How­ev­er, Eleanor Roo­sevelt’s fa­mous quote, “No one can make you feel in­fe­ri­or with­out your con­sent,” holds a pow­er­ful truth.