Ni­ki Ro­drigues, nee Miller, grew up with a sin­gle moth­er, a younger sis­ter, and her grand­moth­er. Now, many years lat­er, Ro­drigues has a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent fam­i­ly struc­ture as the moth­er of eight, a proud wife, and al­so a busi­ness own­er/en­tre­pre­neur. Be­tween man­ag­ing her house­hold, grow­ing her mul­ti­ple busi­ness­es, and home­school­ing her chil­dren, she is an ex­tra­or­di­nary woman.

In­de­pen­dence Day 2024 in T&T will be su­per­charged this year with love! This is the promise of Kaveesh The Band, who has part­nered with Sri Dat­ta­treya Yo­ga Cen­tre & SM Group In­ter­na­tion­al and is ex­cit­ed and grate­ful to present their sig­na­ture spir­i­tu­al event en­ti­tled HARI FEST II 2024—a spir­i­tu­al mu­sic fes­ti­val of love.

Lisa Allen-Agos­ti­ni, known for her genre-de­fy­ing nar­ra­tives, ven­tures in­to his­tor­i­cal crime fic­tion with her lat­est work, Death in the Dry Riv­er (1000Volt Press, Au­gust 2024).

The In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Fo­rum of T&T (IWFTT) has se­lect­ed four out­stand­ing, pi­o­neer­ing women in T&T to ho­n­our at its third an­nu­al In­spi­ra­tional Women Awards Gala in Sep­tem­ber 2024.

Fight­ing demons sent straight from hell, the hor­ror au­thor, screen­play writer, and child ac­tivist, San­dra Car­val­ho, gives the pro­tag­o­nists of her nov­el, The Guardians, a deep­er reach in­to the lives of read­ers and fans of the hor­ror genre.

“I nev­er want­ed to be just one thing in my life. Nev­er!” says Shen­da Mur­ray, who prides her­self as a mul­ti­po­ten­tialite ever since she was a young girl.

The writer re­cent­ly ac­com­pa­nied a group of 35 trav­ellers on a vis­it to the Yu­catan Penin­su­la in Mex­i­co.

Ako­sua Dar­d­aine Ed­wards is the founder of the Ni­Na Young Women’s Lead­er­ship pro­gramme, a role that has ex­em­pli­fied her ded­i­ca­tion to serv­ing oth­ers.

Shi­han Han­i­fah Mar­va John-Lo­gan wants to stop crime and vi­o­lence in En­ter­prise. The so­cial work­er, me­di­a­tor, youth and com­mu­ni­ty ad­vo­cate, mar­tial arts prac­ti­tion­er and so­cial change agent said the on­ly way to do so is to get in­to the bel­ly of the beast.

Vidi­ad­har Sura­jprasad Naipaul (Au­gust 17, 1932–Au­gust 11, 2018), No­bel Lau­re­ate and Book­er Prize win­ner, was a Trinidad-born writer whose work delved deeply in­to themes of iden­ti­ty, dis­place­ment, and post-colo­nial life. His most cel­e­brat­ed works in­clude A House for Mr Biswas, Miguel Street, The Mys­tic Masseur, The Mim­ic Men, A Bend in the Riv­er, and Guer­ril­las. Ho­n­oured with the No­bel Prize, David Co­hen Prize, Trin­i­ty Cross, and a knight­hood, Naipaul re­mains one of the great­est writ­ers in Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture.

Fem­i­nitt Caribbean is an NGO in T&T seek­ing to rad­i­cal­ly trans­form struc­tures that breed in­equal­i­ty in T&T while bridg­ing the so­cio-eco­nom­ic gaps in com­mu­ni­ties through ed­u­ca­tion and ad­vo­ca­cy.

Born from the sor­row of los­ing her moth­er in 2017, Eu­ti­lle Dun­can’s book God and the Or­di­nary Moth­er emerges as a pow­er­ful nar­ra­tive of heal­ing. With un­flinch­ing hon­esty and emo­tion­al depth, Dun­can cap­tures the raw essence of her jour­ney with au­then­tic­i­ty and heart. Eu­ti­lle Dun­can is a To­bag­on­ian writer and pub­lish­er.