If you haven’t seen Dan­it­sia Sa­hadews­ing’s blind au­di­tion on The Voice of Hol­land last month, then you missed one of the com­pe­ti­tion’s most un­ex­pect­ed mo­ments (but there’s al­ways Google!). She de­liv­ered Patrice Roberts’ 2015 hit, ‘Old and Grey,’ of­fi­cial­ly putting so­ca mu­sic on the Dutch map and in­tro­duc­ing the genre to an in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ence most­ly un­fa­mil­iar with its in­fec­tious en­er­gy. Her per­for­mance was every­thing a Trin­bag­on­ian would be proud of — brave, bold, and con­fi­dent.

Lyris Gra­ham-Williams knows what it means to lead, and to fol­low. At home, her hus­band takes the reins, and she em­braces her role as wife and helper, ground­ed in their Chris­t­ian faith and mu­tu­al re­spect. But for two years at Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (ASSL), the roles re­versed. In the of­fice, he re­port­ed to her.

A com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al, sales ex­ec­u­tive and life­long stu­dent of lead­er­ship, Ma­hon-Hen­ry has worn many hats over the years. Yet the ti­tle she is prepar­ing to em­brace most ful­ly is “au­thor,” with the up­com­ing launch of her de­vo­tion­al book Spir­i­tu­al Hide and Seek, a work root­ed in the en­dur­ing pow­er of Psalm 91 and the idea that faith must be lived, not mere­ly re­cit­ed.

March is recog­nised world­wide as En­dometrio­sis Aware­ness Month. The yel­low rib­bon—sym­bol­is­ing sun­shine, hope, and re­silience—rep­re­sents mil­lions of women liv­ing with this chron­ic and of­ten de­bil­i­tat­ing con­di­tion.

Terneille Samuel Her­bert knows the val­ue of get­ting op­por­tu­ni­ties to shine in the per­form­ing arts as a child all too well. From be­ing trained by some of the top lo­cal pro­fes­sion­als in dance, the­atre and mu­sic, to plac­ing sec­ond in TTT’s Twelve and Un­der com­pe­ti­tion, she re­mains grate­ful. And now, years lat­er, she has cho­sen to give back to youths through Tal­ent­Pot—a com­pe­ti­tion for kids.

Pro­fes­sor Joan Pierre has been a men­tor for over 17 years—a du­ty she views as a hu­man­i­tar­i­an act that em­pow­ers in­di­vid­u­als with whom she shares her knowl­edge, sup­port and guid­ance, help­ing them to grow to reach their full po­ten­tial de­spite chal­lenges.

Break­fast is said to be the most im­por­tant meal of the day, but do we eat break­fast dai­ly? Un­for­tu­nate­ly, it is of­ten re­gard­ed as the most for­got­ten meal of the day. Women usu­al­ly skip this meal be­cause of busy sched­ules, work de­mands or even the be­lief that it helps with weight loss. Eat­ing bal­anced meals, specif­i­cal­ly break­fast, can im­prove women’s health, en­er­gy lev­el and long-term well­ness, but it de­pends on what we feed our bod­ies.

When it comes to the con­ver­sa­tion of cli­mate change, Nicole Leo­taud would rather roll her sleeves up and get in­to the com­mu­ni­ties across the Caribbean that are be­ing af­fect­ed the most. The ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Caribbean Nat­ur­al Re­sources In­sti­tute (CA­NARI) has spent the last three decades in en­vi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance and man­age­ment across the re­gion and be­lieves that the work must be ground­ed in the lived ex­pe­ri­ences of com­mu­ni­ties.

With just two months of plan­ning in a tight­ly packed and eco­nom­i­cal­ly chal­leng­ing Car­ni­val sea­son, a new pre­mi­um event man­aged to break through the noise on one of the most com­pet­i­tive nights on the cal­en­dar.

On 28 Feb­ru­ary 2026, the Unit­ed States and Is­rael at­tacked Iran in the open­ing wave of what Wash­ing­ton called Op­er­a­tion Epic Fury and Is­rael called Op­er­a­tion Roar­ing Li­on. Dur­ing those first strikes, a mis­sile hit the Sha­jareh Tayye­beh girls’ el­e­men­tary school in the south­ern Iran­ian city of Minab while class­es were un­der­way. Be­tween 168 and 180 peo­ple died, and about 95 were in­jured, most of them school­child­ren, many of them girls be­tween sev­en and twelve years old.

World Kid­ney Day is recog­nised on the sec­ond Thurs­day in March. It is set aside to raise aware­ness about kid­ney dis­eases and the peo­ple who live with them every day.

Xtra Foods brought to­geth­er women from across com­mu­ni­ties for a cel­e­bra­tion of em­pow­er­ment, re­silience and the trans­for­ma­tive im­pact of women in so­ci­ety dur­ing a spe­cial event in com­mem­o­ra­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day at its South Park, San Fer­nan­do lo­ca­tion last Fri­day.