A tal­ent­ed singer and song­writer, her sig­na­ture re­frain of “it’s Nailah­hh” has made Nailah Black­man an un­mis­tak­able house­hold name in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider re­gion.

On a “clear and sun­ny morn­ing in Sep­tem­ber 1994,” Lynette Chote opened the doors to her pas­sion project, the Spe­cial­ist Learn­ing Cen­tre, on Ca­maca Road, Val­sayn. A pas­sion­ate ed­u­ca­tor, Chote har­nessed more than 30 years of ex­pe­ri­ence and lessons learned in pub­lic ser­vice to build one of the top-per­form­ing pri­ma­ry schools in the coun­try from the ground up.

When pets are in pain, own­ers of­ten make the as­sump­tion that med­ica­tions they use to re­lieve pain in them­selves will be safe to use in their pets. The prob­lem is that every species is dif­fer­ent, and what is safe for hu­mans can be lethal to a dog or a cat.

Sun­dress San­dals and Shades (SSAS), the unique­ly themed con­cept aimed at cel­e­brat­ing women, is set to present the sec­ond an­nu­al in­stal­ment of the event in Trinidad and To­ba­go! The event has been held an­nu­al­ly in Mi­a­mi since 2017.

This week’s spot­light is on T&T-born po­et and writer Gilberte Farah O’Sul­li­van, whose po­em “Ago­ra­pho­bia Around the Sa­van­nah” has been nom­i­nat­ed in the USA for the ‘Best of the Net’ Award (to be an­nounced in 2024).

A line in the school song that has res­onat­ed with the St Au­gus­tine Girls’ High School (SAGHS) Class of 1993, as they re­unit­ed to cel­e­brate 30 years of friend­ship and sis­ter­hood, firm­ly es­tab­lished in their years spent at this renowned in­sti­tu­tion.

Max­ine Williams can be found on the TT$50 bill, with a smile char­ac­ter­is­tic of the joy of the Car­ni­val sea­son as she cross­es the stage in a Bri­an Mac­Far­lane cos­tume.

On the eve of the 33rd re­mem­brance of the at­tempt­ed coup, I know the late Raoul Pan­tin would want to be re­mem­bered not as a bro­ken man suf­fer­ing from PTSD as a hostage of in­sur­gents, but as a war­rior.

One of our 23 Women to Watch has been con­sis­tent­ly watched by the ma­jor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go. For many years, Gol­da Lee Bruce was a night­ly vis­i­tor to T&T house­holds, a well-known jour­nal­ist, me­dia pro­fes­sion­al and news an­chor who ap­peared both on CN­MG and CNC3 7PM news. Then, as now, Bruce la­bels her­self as a “sto­ry­teller”, even af­ter mak­ing a tran­si­tion from the me­dia to de­vel­op­ment com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

“Flavour­ful and more-ish”, that’s how peo­ple de­scribe these gourmet sauces made by Trinida­di­an Jonelle McLeod, a thriv­ing en­tre­pre­neur, self-taught chef and res­i­dent of Vir­ginia US.

More than 300 ath­letes cel­e­brat­ed in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion, the glo­ri­ous re­turn of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cheer­lead­ing Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships 2023 last Sun­day.

Time is mon­ey. When any or­ga­ni­za­tion is in­tro­duc­ing an on­line sys­tem whether it is for a prod­uct or ser­vice, they should use testers to as­sist them in work­ing out the bugs in the soft­ware and en­sure that the sys­tem is work­ing 99.9 per cent be­fore un­leash­ing it on the pub­lic. The best testers of the Com­pa­nies Reg­istry On­line Sys­tem (CROS) would be the ac­count­ing and le­gal firms that file an­nu­al re­turns on be­half of their clients every day.