Dr Leti­tia Williams has built her life around the adage, “to whom much is giv­en, much is re­quired.” So her re­cent el­e­va­tion to vice pres­i­dent of the Di­vi­sion of Stu­dent Af­fairs at Mor­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land, and her com­mit­ment to the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of her new role came as no sur­prise to those who know her.

Most women are fa­mil­iar with the term Poly­cys­tic Ovar­i­an Syn­drome (PCOS), a con­di­tion I have treat­ed fre­quent­ly at my gy­nae­co­log­i­cal prac­tice and I am see­ing an in­crease in in­ci­dence over the years. It is one of the most com­mon hor­mon­al dis­or­ders af­fect­ing women of re­pro­duc­tive age, im­pact­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly one in eight women world­wide.

Like many Caribbean na­tion­als, Ka­iande De­von­ish once set out with a clear ca­reer path, one root­ed in sci­ence, pre­ci­sion, and struc­ture. Trained as a chem­i­cal en­gi­neer, the tran­si­tion in­to Cana­di­an im­mi­gra­tion law was not part of the orig­i­nal plan.

At Take Five Health Bar Cafe on O’Con­nor Street in Wood­brook, the lunch crowd moves steadi­ly be­tween detox juices, salmon bowls, and tartines lay­ered high enough to stop cus­tomers mid-con­ver­sa­tion for pho­tographs.

Es­cap­ing a gi­ant alien squid on the moon, hood­wink­ing a dis­grun­tled ghost, win­ning a chut­ney cham­pi­onship, and a scor­pi­on pep­per com­pe­ti­tion. These are some of the wild sto­ries tum­bling from the minds of our na­tion’s chil­dren and in­clud­ed in the Chil­dren’s Sto­ry and Colour­ing Book 10.

High in the west­ern stretch of Trinidad’s North­ern Range, where the road nar­rows and the land falls away sharply to­ward the Caribbean Sea, Paramin sits wrapped in cloud and breeze.

As the rainy sea­son re­turns to Trinidad, so does the rise of par­vovirus cas­es seen in pup­pies. Ca­nine par­vovirus, com­mon­ly known as “par­vo” or even mis­pro­nounced “par­go”, is one of the most se­ri­ous, con­ta­gious dis­eases that af­fects dogs, par­tic­u­lar­ly un­vac­ci­nat­ed pup­pies, lead­ing to se­vere ill­ness and death in Trinidad through­out the year.

The Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain re­cent­ly played host to a much deep­er in­sight in­to the im­mense beau­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, as cap­tured through the lens of cul­tur­al doc­u­men­tar­i­an and ex­pert en­gi­neer Richard Ramirez.

No mat­ter the mood or the weight of the day, art of­fers a way to ex­press what words some­times can­not. Paired with your favourite drink in hand, it can be­come a gen­tle form of heal­ing—a truth un­der­stood by busi­ness own­er Fe­l­isha Mo­hammed.

For fash­ion de­sign­er Saleem Samuel, style is more than fab­ric and form—it is sto­ry­telling, es­capism and imag­i­na­tion stitched in­to every gar­ment.

Es­tab­lished in 1969, St Xavier’s Pri­vate School is nes­tled on plush green ter­rain on Rich­mond Street in St Joseph, guid­ed by its mot­to: Par Ar­d­ua, Ad As­tra: With hard work we shall reach the stars.

Ting-a-ling-a-ling, school bell a ring! Or maybe it’s just some­one try­ing to get Full Blown on the tele­phone. As we head in­to the sum­mer, or what T&T has re­cent­ly coined JA­VA (Ju­ly–Au­gust va­ca­tion), the lo­cal sib­ling duo have giv­en fans a taste of dance­hall style in their lat­est sin­gle No Stress, while pay­ing homage to a vet­er­an in the genre.