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Ready for the world: Ketonia Dominique completed her studies as the first locally trained female commercial pilot in T&T.
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Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs, Dr Amery Browne, right, and former national senior football team captain and head coach, Russell Latapy, centre, present Argentine Ambassador Gustavo Daniel Martínez Pandiani, with a personalised T&T Men’s Senior Football Away jersey during the screening of the documentary, Soccer Soul and the live viewing of the Copa America, semifinal, between Argentina and Canada at MovieTowne, Port-of-Spain, on Tuesday.
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Onika Henry at work.
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Brigitte Davis’ art is displayed on a billboard at Times Square.
The popular refrain indicates that “Trinis are everywhere.” If you stand in the iconic Times Square in New York City and look up at the displays, there too is the stunning, visually captivating work of 26-year-old Trinidadian artist Brigitte (Britney) Davis. Her art piece is showcased through ArtSpace Innovations. ArtSpace Innovations gives artists a platform for the exhibition of their work at train stations, billboards, and other various platforms. Davis, the Los Bajos native, has always been an artist at her core and has intrinsically known that her legacy will reach many far-flung corners of the world.
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Barbara King
A birth doula is a trained, non-medical companion who assists a woman before, during, and after childbirth. Generally, people associate the term “doula” with these professionals, who have been used for centuries to support women during pregnancy, labour, and active birth. However, they are not the only doulas doing important work. An “end-of-life doula” or “death doula,” not as commonly known as birth doulas, are trained professionals who act as grief companions, assisting people before, during, and after a death, providing emotional and physical support.
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Award-winning author Dr Brenda Flanagan, formerly Brenda Phillips, arrived in the United States of America with just US$10 in her pocket in 1967.
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Trinidadian Yishebah Baht Gavriel, a UK-based writer and storyteller, weaves her work with the joy and nostalgia of her island childhood in Trinidad. As a former English tutor at an after-school club, she found immense pleasure in nurturing the creative talents of her students, an experience that enriched her own literary journey. The arrival of her first grandchild, (to whom her debut short story collection ‘Clever Chrissie and the Mango Stories’ is dedicated) marks Gavriel’s self-discovery of her passion for crafting stories across genres. With a background in psychology, Gavriel emphasises the importance of sharing, a theme that resonates deeply in her writing.
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Rhoma Spencer
When the curtains closed on “Queen of the Road–The Calypso Rose Musical” last Sunday, the captive audience was quick to its feet, cheering and praising the play’s cast along with its fearless writer and director, Rhoma Spencer. Queen of the Road took the viewers on an enthralling journey, highlighting the challenges, triumphs, and overcomings of the Queen of Calypso. Calypso Rose, armed with her tenacity and resilience, rose to the top of a male-dominated field and has paved a path not only for female music artistes but for women throughout T&T, empowering them to stand tall even under backlash and scrutiny. This thread of Calypso Rose as a mouthpiece for women was expertly weaved throughout Spencer’s production, and Spencer, a trailblazer in her own right, was determined for the audience to see and feel Calypso Rose’s indomitable spirit throughout the show.
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Tricia St John
I spent Mother’s Day in bed. Not because I was sick or anything, but because I just wanted to be alone. I didn’t cook. I didn’t respond to or send the usual, numerous greetings that society seems to now be addicted to, and I don’t even think I ate until much later on. I just lay in bed and thought about my children and gave thanks that they are all adults and no longer my responsibility. It’s amazing how edifying that awareness is for me.
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Onika Henry at work.
In her time devoted to herself, Onika Henry enjoys the timeless company of the seaside. She goes to the beach to rest, read a book, and eat her favourite gluten-free snacks before submerging in the teal waters of Tobago, her home. While enjoying nature’s bounty and treating herself from time to time, the 52 year old is a single mother who raised her two boys into men: 30-year-old Akino Cornwall and 32-year-old Taariq Cornwall.
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“I’ve always loved nature, nature is interconnected with everything else. A big misconception people have is that parts of the environment are separated,” says the Director of Science at the Hawaiian-based company Terraformation, Trinidadian Dr Shobha Maharaj.
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‘Ewa Afrika 2024 … The Folk Lure” is carded for the Queen’s Hall on June 2 from 5 pm. This prolific showcase of Afro-inspired fashion has garnered phenomenal traction in its three-year history, wooing larger audiences with a plethora of Afrocentric creative excellence from the region. Indeed, it is a Caribbean presentation of runway collections by the best designers paying homage to our African traditions and our Afro-Caribbean style.
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Cheryl Lala is a nonconformist. Not by choice, but by design. Which is a hard thing to be in T&T. This is a country that loves obedience, and Cheryl (pronounced Chair-Ril, not Cher-ril) Lala is not interested in fitting in, but she’s not trying to stand out either.
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Vaneisa Baksh
T&T writers who have earned local, regional, and international accolades will present their fiction and non-fiction at Paper Based Bookshop’s Evening of Tea and Readings, on June 1 at 5:30 pm at The Chancellor Hotel.
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Kavita Singh is the founder of Image Expression, a hair salon located in Point Fortin that offers professional make-up, waxing, hairstyling, and colouring to women who want to treat themselves to heightened versions of their personalities. Just days before Mother’s Day, Singh spoke with Sunday Guardian WE magazine, sharing her journey into the beauty industry and the tough road she has had to walk as a single mother of three boys, especially for her ride-or-die, six-year-old Levi Samai, who has Down syndrome.
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Asha Lovelace and His Excellency Gustavo Daniel Véliz Olivares, Embassy of Cuba and spouse.
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Jo Ann Subero with a cookie.
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Brigitte Davis’ art is displayed on a billboard at Times Square.
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