As a child, Dr An­jani Ganase would ac­com­pa­ny her grand­fa­ther on his boat to go fish­ing and some­times snorkelling. It would be the start of a life­long ro­mance with the wa­ter. “Get­ting a mask and see­ing what was un­der­wa­ter re­al­ly opened my eyes, and I thought that was pret­ty amaz­ing,” Ganase told WE mag­a­zine in an in­ter­view last week.

Hot flash­es, sleep­less nights, mood changes—for many women, per­i­menopause and menopause can feel like a silent strug­gle. But now, that’s be­gin­ning to change. The Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (FPATT) has launched a first-of-its-kind clin­ic de­signed to guide women through this phase of life with care, un­der­stand­ing, and ex­per­tise.

Med­i­cine and imag­ing have made ex­po­nen­tial strides in the man­age­ment of breast can­cer. Con­se­quent­ly, the treat­ment land­scape for women with this dis­ease has been rev­o­lu­tion­ary. Once di­ag­nosed ear­ly, women to­day can look for­ward to a pos­i­tive life tra­jec­to­ry. As a re­sult, it is not un­com­mon for me to see young women di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer in my prac­tice.

From the crick­et fields of Ch­agua­nas to the class­rooms and coach­ing clin­ics across Trinidad and To­ba­go, Pradeep Vish­nu has spent his life shap­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of ath­letes. The 65-year-old for­mer na­tion­al youth crick­eter, coach, and au­thor has made youth de­vel­op­ment not just his ca­reer but his call­ing.

Mar­cia Jem­ma Di­di­er has been spend­ing the last few days dot­ing on her two new grand­chil­dren, who were born two days apart, on Oc­to­ber 14 and 16–some­thing she was un­able to do with an­oth­er grand­child who was born in 2010 fol­low­ing her breast can­cer di­ag­no­sis.

Chelsea An­dell is a mul­ti-tal­ent­ed per­former from Trinidad and To­ba­go, cel­e­brat­ed as a pro­fes­sion­al dancer and al­so a record­ing artiste, stage-named Sauce the Rap­per. Her pas­sion for the arts be­gan when she was two. By five, she was per­form­ing, and at 12, she be­came an in­struc­tor and even­tu­al­ly grad­u­at­ed from the New York Film Acad­e­my in Act­ing for Film.

The First Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege Scout Band and Group, renowned for nur­tur­ing gen­er­a­tions of young mu­si­cians and up­hold­ing the scout­ing spir­it, is cel­e­brat­ing a gold­en mile­stone—50 years of the QRC Scout Show. The an­niver­sary con­cert, themed Through the Years, takes place at Queen’s Hall on No­vem­ber 1 and 2, promis­ing a mu­si­cal jour­ney from camp­fire sin­ga­longs to con­cert hall per­for­mances.

Hun­dreds turned out as the St Charles (Tu­na­puna) Girls’ Ro­man Catholic School held its walkathon last Sat­ur­day.

Na­tion­al Freestyle Cham­pi­on and so­ca star Akeem “Preedy” Chance has re­turned from Japan with a re­newed sense of pride and pur­pose, af­ter show­cas­ing his mu­sic to en­thu­si­as­tic new au­di­ences across the Pa­cif­ic.

The Bel­mont Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre came alive re­cent­ly, as sev­en young women com­pet­ed for the Miss Bel­mont Queen ti­tle.

T he in­flu­ence of dance in Latin Amer­i­can cul­ture took cen­tre stage at the fifth edi­tion of Latin Night, host­ed by the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS) on Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain, ear­li­er this month.

There are mo­ments in fash­ion that do more than daz­zle; they shift the cul­tur­al ax­is. The night of Oc­to­ber 17 in Not­ting Hill, the epi­cen­tre of Caribbean en­er­gy in Eng­land, was one of them.