Her Ex­cel­len­cy Selvia Miller has just com­plet­ed her term as Pana­man­ian Am­bas­sador to T&T.

Al­though it is not of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed as a pres­tige school, achiev­ing that sta­tus has been a goal for stu­dents and staff at Wood­brook Sec­ondary School since its es­tab­lish­ment. That ob­jec­tive is ex­pressed in its mot­to, Aim High.

Mar­ilin Mendez fled Venezuela six years ago with her three-year-old son in tow be­cause of the po­lit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion in that coun­try.

Gi­na Marie Ling (née Sura­jdeen), is a young, in­no­v­a­tive, an­i­mal-lov­ing health fa­nat­ic and en­tre­pre­neur who crossed oceans for love.

Mixed-me­dia artist Shali­ni Seereer­am is us­ing her cre­ative tal­ents to help the peo­ple of Car­ri­a­cou re­cov­er from the rav­ages of Hur­ri­cane Beryl.

Trinidad Wed­dings has re­leased its high­ly-an­tic­i­pat­ed 10th An­niver­sary is­sue, avail­able now in both a high-qual­i­ty, print­ed edi­tion and an in­ter­ac­tive, dig­i­tal for­mat. This mile­stone edi­tion promis­es to be an es­sen­tial re­source for brides, grooms, wed­ding plan­ners and wed­ding en­thu­si­asts alike, packed with ex­clu­sive con­tent and in­no­v­a­tive fea­tures to cel­e­brate a decade of wed­ding in­spi­ra­tion.

In June 14, weeks af­ter In­dia cel­e­brat­ed the tri­umph of sec­u­lar­ism in its re­cent elec­tion when the na­tion­al­ist BJP lost over 300 seats in Par­lia­ment, Del­hi Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor Vinai Ku­mar Sax­e­na sanc­tioned the pros­e­cu­tion of In­dia’s best-known liv­ing au­thor-ac­tivist Arund­hati Roy and Dr Sheikh Showkat Hus­sain over com­ments made about Kash­mir at an event in 2010. The com­plaint per­tained to Roy’s com­ment that the dis­put­ed ter­ri­to­ry of Kash­mir was not an “in­te­gral” part of In­dia and ac­cused her and oth­ers of ad­vo­cat­ing for the se­ces­sion of Kash­mir from In­dia.

There was an ar­ray of colours, feath­ers and his­to­ry at the Hy­att Re­gency com­pound on Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day evening when ‘Echoes of Iere—Wel­come Back to Beau­ty’ was launched by Car­ni­val band, YU­MA.

Last Sun­day night, amidst roars from the wait­ing au­di­ence, An­na-Lise Nan­ton was crowned Miss World T&T, the se­lect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the in­ter­na­tion­al pageant be­ing held in 2025.

“Two months ago, I lost my phone. The phone fell on the floor at the phar­ma­cy and about 15 min­utes lat­er they called on my oth­er phone and said, ‘Ms Madrid, you lost your phone in the phar­ma­cy, can you come and pick it up?’ I was sur­prised be­cause, in oth­er coun­tries, that won’t hap­pen.

Michelle Lewis, orig­i­nal­ly from Co­corite, has sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­pact­ed the pub­lic health­care sys­tem in New York City.

Barataria na­tive Rober­ta Nicolls is ho­n­our­ing the lives of her broth­er and moth­er through aug­ment­ed art. Now based in George­town, Guyana, af­ter hav­ing moved from Trinidad, Nicolls shared that the ori­gins of her art ex­hi­bi­tion, Blank Can­vas­es, be­gan when a void was dug in­to her life fol­low­ing the loss of fam­i­ly.