Many women qui­et­ly shoul­der life’s hard­est sea­sons—hid­den be­hind ca­reers, fam­i­ly roles, and ex­pec­ta­tions. With her de­but book, Dear Sis, This Too Shall Pass: Let­ters of Hope, Heal­ing and Sis­ter­hood, Sun­ny Gopaul hopes to re­mind them they are not alone. A woman of faith and long­time ad­vo­cate for women and youth de­vel­op­ment, Gopaul has spent more than a decade cre­at­ing spaces for women and girls to grow, re­flect, and sup­port one an­oth­er. Her new book con­tin­ues that mis­sion. “Every woman car­ries a sto­ry,” she says, “and every sto­ry de­serves to be heard.”

As a gy­nae­col­o­gist, one of the most fre­quent con­cerns I hear from young women re­volves around ir­reg­u­lar pe­ri­ods. While oc­ca­sion­al vari­a­tions in the men­stru­al cy­cle can be com­plete­ly nor­mal—es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing ado­les­cence or times of stress—per­sis­tent ir­reg­u­lar­i­ty is of­ten the body’s way of sig­nalling that some­thing deep­er may be go­ing on. One of the most com­mon un­der­ly­ing caus­es is Poly­cys­tic Ovary Syn­drome, or PCOS.

For over a decade, mem­bers of Mil­waz Pro­duc­tions have been en­gaged in ex­pe­ri­en­tial study of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture, with a strong fo­cus on Shake­speare­an ed­u­ca­tion – the re­al­i­sa­tion of a dream for founder Janei­ka Tu­dor-Bap­tiste. The com­pa­ny has en­gaged stu­dents and teach­ers through per­for­mances, adap­tions and work­shops, and has made use of every op­por­tu­ni­ty to gain in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ence to strength­en its abil­i­ty to achieve its mis­sion of reignit­ing the pas­sion for Shake­speare and lit­er­ary arts in Caribbean class­rooms.

For three years, Sachin Ram­lochan called his bar­ber shop home—sleep­ing in a small room af­ter long, ex­haust­ing days on his feet, cut­ting hair from morn­ing to night, de­ter­mined to sur­vive de­spite be­ing home­less.

Raised in Riv­er Es­tate, Diego Mar­tin, vi­o­lin­ist Mar­cus Nel­son, known pro­fes­sion­al­ly as Mar­quis Musiq, has trans­formed mod­est be­gin­nings in­to an in­ter­na­tion­al per­form­ing ca­reer.

Lit­er­a­ture as com­mu­ni­ty will be in fo­cus at the 2026 Bo­cas Lit Fest, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­nu­al fes­ti­val of words, sto­ries, and ideas, which launched its pro­gramme last Wednes­day.

When Os­car-win­ning ac­tress Lupi­ta Ny­ong’o cel­e­brat­ed her 43rd birth­day ear­li­er this month, the im­age she shared with the world was not the usu­al glam­orous por­trait. In­stead, she sat hold­ing a bas­ket filled with 77 pieces of fruit, each rep­re­sent­ing a fi­broid she has car­ried in her body over time.

For many, trav­el­ling the world re­mains a dis­tant dream—an ac­tiv­i­ty re­served for those with deep pock­ets. But for Shan­non Sal­ick and Zed Brady, all it took was a back­pack, a tight bud­get, and a lit­tle bold­ness to make it a re­al­i­ty.

It was more than a decade ago, but Der­ron Sandy still re­mem­bers per­form­ing his very first po­em as if it were yes­ter­day. The year was 2009, and the stage was UWe Speak, the long-run­ning open mic at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

“Al­low the spir­it of God to lead you, and live in love.” These are among the guid­ing mes­sages of Laven­tille’s own Genelle Bharat, a mul­ti-tal­ent­ed per­former, fire­fight­er, and com­mu­ni­ty fig­ure whose life em­bod­ies pur­pose, faith, and per­se­ver­ance.

T&T dancer Achsah Hen­ry is still pro­cess­ing what she de­scribes as a “pinch-me” mo­ment af­ter per­form­ing at the World Base­ball Clas­sic (WBC) ear­li­er this month.

Courts, a brand of the Uni­com­er Group, has an­nounced its ti­tle spon­sor­ship of the Caribbean Beach­food Fes­ti­val 2026, an ini­tia­tive cel­e­brat­ing Caribbean culi­nary cre­ativ­i­ty while pro­mot­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty and food se­cu­ri­ty.