The T&T Fash­ion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Fash­ionTT) has launched the lat­est edi­tion of its Look­Book for the sea­son – Sum­mer Lime, an ex­quis­ite col­lec­tion that high­lights the ex­tra­or­di­nary tal­ent of lo­cal de­sign­ers. This re­lease cel­e­brates the rich di­ver­si­ty and cre­ativ­i­ty with­in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fash­ion in­dus­try and was timed per­fect­ly with the Ju­ly/Au­gust (JA­VA) sea­son.

This week WE spot­lights the great Czecho­slo­va­kian writer Mi­lan Kun­dera who died on Wednes­day at 94. I didn’t ex­pect the vis­cer­al re­ac­tion I had to his death, as if a piece of me was be­ing cut away. In Kun­dera’s nov­els, the small­est ges­tures have mean­ing. Be­tray­al, pain, loss, the light and heavy emo­tions, the full­ness in our frag­ile hu­man hearts is root­ed in the po­lit­i­cal and per­son­al, cau­terised and made palat­able with hu­mour and satire.

Si­mone Sant-Ghu­ran, lo­cal wed­ding ex­pert and Ed­i­tor-in-Chief of Trinidad­Wed­dings.com, has re­leased her wed­ding plan­ning guide book for en­gaged cou­ples, on Ama­zon. The book’s re­lease is just in time for the start of the bridal sea­son in T&T.

When po­et, writer and uni­ver­si­ty lec­tur­er in lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al stud­ies Jen­nifer Rahim died sud­den­ly at 60 on March 13, her pub­lish­er Je­re­my Poynt­ing, founder of Peepal Tree Press, wrote that we had lost “one of the re­gions very best writ­ers”.

Pheromones are chem­i­cal sig­nals that are used as a form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween an­i­mals. They are species-spe­cif­ic, so cats will on­ly re­spond to pheromones from oth­er cats and not to pheromones from oth­er species, such as dogs or hu­mans. Pheromones are used to leave “mes­sages”, and dif­fer­ent pheromones send dif­fer­ent mes­sages.

Caribbean el­e­gance was on full dis­play at events host­ed in Port-of-Spain in cel­e­bra­tion of the 5oth An­niver­sary of Cari­com. Here is a look at some of the fash­ion­able del­e­gates who added their spe­cial flair to the var­i­ous com­mem­o­ra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties. PIC­TURES VASHTI SINGH

Rac­quel Moses is a phe­nom­e­nal woman not sole­ly pur­su­ing her own ad­vance­ment, but work­ing to­wards im­ple­ment­ing so­lu­tions for the fu­ture of our plan­et. In essence, she is work­ing tire­less­ly for all of us, and the gen­er­a­tions that come af­ter us.

“When the re­sults were re­leased, my slip re­vealed my fourth choice and I felt a sting of dis­ap­point­ment deep with­in. This hap­pened decades ago, but I can ef­fort­less­ly re­call those feel­ings. There my jour­ney start­ed, one that is a tes­ta­ment to the in­cred­i­ble pow­er that lies with­in each one of us.”

Last Sun­day, the Au­di­to­ri­um of the Cen­tral Bank of T&T (CBTT) was ablaze with fash­ion, on and off stage.

De­fined as “the legal­ly or for­mal­ly rec­og­nized union of two peo­ple as part­ners in a per­son­al re­la­tion­ship”, mar­riage, in all its evo­lu­tions through­out his­to­ry, has re­mained, in so­ci­ety’s eyes, a thresh­old of achieve­ment for the young woman. De­cod­ing the de­f­i­n­i­tion of mar­riage in the present day re­quires an un­der­stand­ing of the his­to­ry of the con­cept. The ear­li­est doc­u­men­ta­tion of the term, mar­riage, in­di­cates that it was coined as a pop­u­lar term first seen in 1250-1300 CE. Through­out his­to­ry, fam­i­lies arranged mar­riages for cou­ples for the pur­pose of cre­at­ing bind­ing so­cio-eco­nom­ic li­aisons. There­fore, from a his­tor­i­cal, or even pre­his­toric per­spec­tive, mar­riage of two in­di­vid­u­als be­came an achieve­ment, and of­ten an eco­nom­ic tri­umph for fam­i­lies.

In the Caribbean, can­cer is the sec­ond lead­ing cause of death, ac­count­ing for about one fifth (IARC Caribbean Can­cer Reg­istry Hub). Here at home, it is al­so a lead­ing cause of ill­ness and death. Syn­ony­mous with pain and suf­fer­ing, bring­ing re­lief to pa­tients is one of the main rea­sons why ra­di­a­tion on­col­o­gist Dr Ane­sa Ahamad chose this as her call­ing and has ded­i­cat­ed decades to find­ing a cure or, at the very least, im­prov­ing the life ex­pectan­cy for can­cer pa­tients the world over.

De­siree Con­nor-Ed­wards crafti­ly sticks in an ex­tra word when asked to de­scribe her jovial hus­band in three sim­ple words. Not able to hide his smile, Ed­wards re­torts with the com­plaint that she got one more word than him, as he strug­gled to cap­ture his love for her in on­ly three.