Equipped with an in­domitable “sweet han,” Shan­ice George Ed­wards, a tal­ent­ed chef and en­tre­pre­neur, has loved cook­ing from a very young age. Ed­wards is the own­er of Peck­ish868, a gourmet cater­ing out­let that was found­ed from her pas­sion for cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful art from food and cre­ative­ly us­ing lo­cal in­gre­di­ents.

This Sun­day, as part of our Book­shelf se­ries on no­table women writ­ers, we step in­to the taut, un­flinch­ing world of Lu­cille Clifton, the Black Amer­i­can po­et who carved a space for qui­et re­sis­tance in con­tem­po­rary lit­er­a­ture.

Azz­izah Mo­hammed-Ma­jeed is an ad­vo­cate for em­pow­er­ing and up­lift­ing Mus­lim women. It was an easy de­ci­sion when her hus­band, Moulana Atif Ma­jeed Su­laimani, ap­proached her with the idea of pub­lish­ing a women’s mag­a­zine.

Dance is of­ten de­scribed as an art form that tran­scends bound­aries and trans­forms lives. For Zi­dane Roop­nar­ine, it did just that—lead­ing him all the way to Bei­jing, Chi­na.

Say­ee­da Khan has spent near­ly four decades shap­ing young minds, but even in re­tire­ment, her mis­sion to guide the next gen­er­a­tion con­tin­ues. As a for­mer teacher, vice prin­ci­pal, and prin­ci­pal, she has wit­nessed first-hand how friend­ships can be test­ed—es­pe­cial­ly in to­day’s dig­i­tal age.

A tes­ta­ment to re­silience, per­se­ver­ance, and tenac­i­ty, Danielle Reid’s jour­ney has been a con­tin­u­ous pur­suit of per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al growth. Raised with a strong Chris­t­ian foun­da­tion, her par­ents im­bued in her val­ues that con­tin­ue to be fun­da­men­tal.

A folk dance troupe from Ra­jasthan, In­dia, re­ceived wide­spread praise and stand­ing ova­tions for their per­for­mance at the Lax­mi Narayan Tem­ple in Freeport on Wednes­day.

In a con­cert­ed ef­fort to ad­dress the sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic health chal­lenges posed by the Hu­man Pa­pil­lo­mavirus (HPV), the Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SITT) launched its Cer­vi­cal Can­cer Pre­ven­tion Cam­paign un­der the theme “Let’s Be HPV He­roes. End Cer­vi­cal Can­cer. Get Vac­ci­nat­ed.” This ini­tia­tive co­in­cid­ed with Cer­vi­cal Can­cer Aware­ness Month and the glob­al Cer­vi­cal Can­cer Pre­ven­tion Week.

Al­ways the in­evitable cry of first-timers who ac­com­pa­ny me on my sam­pling trips in the Bon Ac­cord La­goon. On my fre­quent vis­its to the sea­grass beds in To­ba­go’s south­west, tur­tles are some of the more promi­nent guests, un­mis­tak­able by their re­mark­able speed un­der­wa­ter or their cau­tious heads peek­ing above the sur­face.

Jazz sen­sa­tion Vaugh­nette Big­ford treat­ed her fans to a mu­si­cal jour­ney at her Af­ter The Mas soiree at Na­pari­ma Bowl, San Fer­nan­do, on March 8. Dressed in a beau­ti­ful pur­ple Zad and East­man gown, she cel­e­brat­ed women on In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day.

Wahi­da Mo­hammed-Nar­ine is cel­e­brat­ed as one of the coun­try’s lead­ing fe­male ed­u­ca­tors, but her jour­ney has been one of re­silience and de­ter­mi­na­tion. Ris­ing from pover­ty to promi­nence, she has over­come nu­mer­ous chal­lenges to achieve suc­cess.

Gospel artiste NISA, born Genisa St Hillaire, is ded­i­cat­ed to spread­ing mes­sages of hope and en­cour­age­ment through her mu­sic and tes­ti­mo­ny. She is set to host her third con­cert, Au­ro­ra, at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um on May 24, start­ing at 6 pm. Known for her pow­er­ful pres­ence both in the stu­dio and on stage, NISA is ea­ger to con­tin­ue shar­ing her jour­ney and faith with her au­di­ence.