Ako­sua Dar­d­aine Ed­wards is the founder of the Ni­Na Young Women’s Lead­er­ship pro­gramme, a role that has ex­em­pli­fied her ded­i­ca­tion to serv­ing oth­ers.

Shi­han Han­i­fah Mar­va John-Lo­gan wants to stop crime and vi­o­lence in En­ter­prise. The so­cial work­er, me­di­a­tor, youth and com­mu­ni­ty ad­vo­cate, mar­tial arts prac­ti­tion­er and so­cial change agent said the on­ly way to do so is to get in­to the bel­ly of the beast.

Vidi­ad­har Sura­jprasad Naipaul (Au­gust 17, 1932–Au­gust 11, 2018), No­bel Lau­re­ate and Book­er Prize win­ner, was a Trinidad-born writer whose work delved deeply in­to themes of iden­ti­ty, dis­place­ment, and post-colo­nial life. His most cel­e­brat­ed works in­clude A House for Mr Biswas, Miguel Street, The Mys­tic Masseur, The Mim­ic Men, A Bend in the Riv­er, and Guer­ril­las. Ho­n­oured with the No­bel Prize, David Co­hen Prize, Trin­i­ty Cross, and a knight­hood, Naipaul re­mains one of the great­est writ­ers in Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture.

Fem­i­nitt Caribbean is an NGO in T&T seek­ing to rad­i­cal­ly trans­form struc­tures that breed in­equal­i­ty in T&T while bridg­ing the so­cio-eco­nom­ic gaps in com­mu­ni­ties through ed­u­ca­tion and ad­vo­ca­cy.

Born from the sor­row of los­ing her moth­er in 2017, Eu­ti­lle Dun­can’s book God and the Or­di­nary Moth­er emerges as a pow­er­ful nar­ra­tive of heal­ing. With un­flinch­ing hon­esty and emo­tion­al depth, Dun­can cap­tures the raw essence of her jour­ney with au­then­tic­i­ty and heart. Eu­ti­lle Dun­can is a To­bag­on­ian writer and pub­lish­er.

If some­one had asked Mar­tine be­fore Jil­lanne’s out­burst if she had a good re­la­tion­ship with her daugh­ters, she would have eas­i­ly and con­fi­dent­ly said yes.

Build­ing a small busi­ness from the ground up has pro­vid­ed Nic­hole Ali-Rogers with am­ple op­por­tu­ni­ties to in­no­vate and adapt con­tin­u­ous­ly. Her for­ward-think­ing ap­proach en­sures that the busi­ness re­mains rel­e­vant in an ever-evolv­ing, com­pet­i­tive mar­ket.

The 90-Day Fi­ancé star ap­peared with her hus­band, Bi­lal Hazz­iez, in sea­son nine of the re­al­i­ty TV show, which is broad­cast on the Amer­i­can tele­vi­sion net­work TLC.

Fash­ion in T&T and the wider Caribbean has al­ways been a unique and out­stand­ing blend of cul­tur­al in­flu­ences, re­flect­ing the re­gion’s rich his­to­ry and adap­ta­tion to the cli­mate.

Gen­nike May­ers, a T&T na­tion­al ad­vo­cate for Caribbean uni­ty, re­leased her new book, “CARI­COM: Good Of­fices, Good Neigh­bours.” The book ex­am­ines the di­verse diplo­mat­ic ap­proach­es of Cari­com mem­ber states to­wards the Venezue­lan cri­sis and high­lights the cru­cial im­por­tance of re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty in nav­i­gat­ing com­plex geopo­lit­i­cal chal­lenges.

Yeye Aina Olukay­o­de takes pride in call­ing her­self an Or­isha devo­tee. Very mind­ful of the stig­ma and myths as­so­ci­at­ed with the African-root­ed re­li­gion, which is prac­tised in T&T, she joined the faith in 1997.

Vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Do­minic Kaliper­sad has been ho­n­oured with a na­tion­al ser­vice award in recog­ni­tion of his con­tin­u­ous ef­forts and ded­i­ca­tion to T&T.