For decades, the name Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School (NGHS) has been syn­ony­mous with more than just aca­d­e­m­ic pres­tige. In many house­holds across T&T and the di­as­po­ra, the school is rep­re­sent­ed by its icon­ic cook­book.

On March 7, the man­age­ment and mem­bers of Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus Steel Or­ches­tra (XO), along with spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests, gath­ered at the home of the bank’s man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Nigel Bap­tiste, to cel­e­brate the band’s vic­to­ry at this year’s Na­tion­al Panora­ma fi­nal.

March is recog­nised world­wide as En­dometrio­sis Aware­ness Month. The yel­low rib­bon—sym­bol­is­ing sun­shine, hope, and re­silience—rep­re­sents mil­lions of women liv­ing with this chron­ic and of­ten de­bil­i­tat­ing con­di­tion.

If you haven’t seen Dan­it­sia Sa­hadews­ing’s blind au­di­tion on The Voice of Hol­land last month, then you missed one of the com­pe­ti­tion’s most un­ex­pect­ed mo­ments (but there’s al­ways Google!). She de­liv­ered Patrice Roberts’ 2015 hit, ‘Old and Grey,’ of­fi­cial­ly putting so­ca mu­sic on the Dutch map and in­tro­duc­ing the genre to an in­ter­na­tion­al au­di­ence most­ly un­fa­mil­iar with its in­fec­tious en­er­gy. Her per­for­mance was every­thing a Trin­bag­on­ian would be proud of — brave, bold, and con­fi­dent.

With just two months of plan­ning in a tight­ly packed and eco­nom­i­cal­ly chal­leng­ing Car­ni­val sea­son, a new pre­mi­um event man­aged to break through the noise on one of the most com­pet­i­tive nights on the cal­en­dar.

Pro­fes­sor Joan Pierre has been a men­tor for over 17 years—a du­ty she views as a hu­man­i­tar­i­an act that em­pow­ers in­di­vid­u­als with whom she shares her knowl­edge, sup­port and guid­ance, help­ing them to grow to reach their full po­ten­tial de­spite chal­lenges.

A com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al, sales ex­ec­u­tive and life­long stu­dent of lead­er­ship, Ma­hon-Hen­ry has worn many hats over the years. Yet the ti­tle she is prepar­ing to em­brace most ful­ly is “au­thor,” with the up­com­ing launch of her de­vo­tion­al book Spir­i­tu­al Hide and Seek, a work root­ed in the en­dur­ing pow­er of Psalm 91 and the idea that faith must be lived, not mere­ly re­cit­ed.

Break­fast is said to be the most im­por­tant meal of the day, but do we eat break­fast dai­ly? Un­for­tu­nate­ly, it is of­ten re­gard­ed as the most for­got­ten meal of the day. Women usu­al­ly skip this meal be­cause of busy sched­ules, work de­mands or even the be­lief that it helps with weight loss. Eat­ing bal­anced meals, specif­i­cal­ly break­fast, can im­prove women’s health, en­er­gy lev­el and long-term well­ness, but it de­pends on what we feed our bod­ies.

When it comes to the con­ver­sa­tion of cli­mate change, Nicole Leo­taud would rather roll her sleeves up and get in­to the com­mu­ni­ties across the Caribbean that are be­ing af­fect­ed the most. The ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Caribbean Nat­ur­al Re­sources In­sti­tute (CA­NARI) has spent the last three decades in en­vi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance and man­age­ment across the re­gion and be­lieves that the work must be ground­ed in the lived ex­pe­ri­ences of com­mu­ni­ties.

Terneille Samuel Her­bert knows the val­ue of get­ting op­por­tu­ni­ties to shine in the per­form­ing arts as a child all too well. From be­ing trained by some of the top lo­cal pro­fes­sion­als in dance, the­atre and mu­sic, to plac­ing sec­ond in TTT’s Twelve and Un­der com­pe­ti­tion, she re­mains grate­ful. And now, years lat­er, she has cho­sen to give back to youths through Tal­ent­Pot—a com­pe­ti­tion for kids.

Nile Mans­ingh has trav­elled to at least 20 coun­tries around the world – quite an ac­com­plish­ment for a 15-year-old. But her ac­com­plish­ments ex­tend far be­yond her trav­els.

On 28 Feb­ru­ary 2026, the Unit­ed States and Is­rael at­tacked Iran in the open­ing wave of what Wash­ing­ton called Op­er­a­tion Epic Fury and Is­rael called Op­er­a­tion Roar­ing Li­on. Dur­ing those first strikes, a mis­sile hit the Sha­jareh Tayye­beh girls’ el­e­men­tary school in the south­ern Iran­ian city of Minab while class­es were un­der­way. Be­tween 168 and 180 peo­ple died, and about 95 were in­jured, most of them school­child­ren, many of them girls be­tween sev­en and twelve years old.