For­mer Trinidad Guardian ed­i­tor-in-chief Do­minic Kaliper­sad has been award­ed a spe­cial ci­ta­tion by the May­or of New York City, Er­ic Adams. The Cer­tifi­cate of Recog­ni­tion was pre­sent­ed to him at the Brook­lyn Caribbean Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val (BCLF), which was held in Brook­lyn, New York City, USA, Sep­tem­ber 5-8.

The Ro­tary Clubs of T&T will host the Hats & Heels High Tea and Fash­ion Show on Sep­tem­ber 22 from 3 pm to 6 pm at Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad.

Ghana-born T&T film­mak­er Yao Rame­sar has won yet an­oth­er award, this time in Cana­da—Best Film at the In­ter­na­tion­al Mo­tion Pic­ture Awards in Toron­to.

In­spired by God, “Can­dle­light Re­flec­tions with Christ” is Vernie Vic­to­ria Ap­pi­ah’s de­but book.

In a com­mu­ni­ca­tions ca­reer that has spanned 15 years, Nys­sa Pierre has nev­er had a task on her hands quite like this one. On Au­gust 27, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) named the T&T na­tion­al its new Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Me­dia Man­ag­er.

“I’ve al­ways been in­to sports, an ac­tive lifestyle since I could walk,” says Nathaniel Alexan­der, who iden­ti­fies as an ath­lete. In his ear­ly days, he first got ac­quaint­ed with crick­et when he was two years old and has played the sport ever since.

Raquel An­drews-Morales has been a vol­un­teer with the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team for about a year and a half.

Tshenelle Bethel-Pe­ters, known on so­cial me­dia as Nel­ly B, is on a jour­ney to re­dis­cov­er her per­son­al style. The con­tent cre­ator—a grad­u­ate of Holy Faith Con­vent, Cou­va—re­cent­ly start­ed dab­bling more with fash­ion and beau­ty re­views. She, how­ev­er, is not the typ­i­cal fash­ion in­flu­encer mar­keter.

“My moth­er and I have both been recog­nised by MI­PAD (Most In­flu­en­tial Peo­ple of African De­scent) in sup­port of the Unit­ed Na­tions’ Decade Ded­i­cat­ed to Peo­ple of African De­scent.We were both recog­nised for two com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories. This is the first time a moth­er and daugh­ter have both been recog­nised by MI­PAD and thus marks a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion.

Ser­vice and giv­ing have al­ways been a piv­otal part of Deb­o­rah de Rosia’s life. Be­ing ho­n­oured with the In­spi­ra­tional Cham­pi­on of Women Award by the IWFTT this month of Sep­tem­ber comes af­ter decades of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice to oth­ers, and she is in­sis­tent that the award should not be on­ly hers but a trib­ute to all those who have giv­en their time and tal­ent to the Eter­nal Light Com­mu­ni­ty.

This week, the book­shelf spot­lights a writer who re­mains anony­mous. She writes as if she’s speak­ing with dis­arm­ing hon­esty, and her con­nec­tion with women read­ers is in­stant. Her books have sold over 30 mil­lion copies world­wide and have been trans­lat­ed in­to more than 40 lan­guages.

El­yse Hen­ry, Head of Mar­ket­ing, Cor­po­rate Sec­re­tary, and Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor at the fam­i­ly-owned en­gi­neer­ing ser­vices com­pa­ny, K E Hen­ry & As­so­ciates Ltd, can eas­i­ly switch be­tween her heels in an of­fice set­ting and her safe­ty boots in the fab­ri­ca­tion work­shop.