Di­vya Go­cool has al­ready dis­cov­ered some­thing that many peo­ple spend a life­time search­ing for — her voice.

Er­il Gar­cia is gen­er­al­ly not one to al­low dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances to keep her down. So when she was di­ag­nosed with breast can­cer at 45, as scared as she was, she took time to process what was hap­pen­ing, then did what was nec­es­sary to get her­self back to a pos­i­tive place.

Per­haps your clothes fit dif­fer­ent­ly and los­ing weight feels hard­er than it used to. You may even no­tice that you do not feel as strong as be­fore.

For years, Mar­cus Prince re­ceived com­pli­ments on his sense of fash­ion. But one day, when a close friend sought as­sis­tance in choos­ing some out­fits, he thought, “Maybe help­ing oth­ers in this way could be a busi­ness ven­ture.” And now, he has of­fi­cial­ly opened his first phys­i­cal lo­ca­tion for Prince, his very own lux­u­ry menswear brand in Port-of-Spain.

As Score4Can­cer us­es foot­ball to raise aware­ness about the dis­ease, one sur­vivor re­flects on the di­ag­no­sis, treat­ment and life af­ter can­cer.

Chi­nese Ar­rival Day will be ob­served on Oc­to­ber 12. This year marks the 220th an­niver­sary of the ar­rival of the first group of Chi­nese mi­grants to Trinidad and To­ba­go, with 192 mi­grants aboard the For­ti­tude in 1806.

Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al San Fer­nan­do host­ed a fundrais­er, the Pink, Pearls and Pinot Gala, at the Le Reve Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, C3 Cen­tre, San Fer­nan­do, on Sep­tem­ber 6.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go bids farewell to the Mighty Spar­row to­day, the mem­o­ries of a mu­si­cal gi­ant live on through the per­for­mances that cap­ti­vat­ed gen­er­a­tions.

For 41-year-old Lu­an­na Dun­can, the fight against stage four breast can­cer is about more than en­dur­ing treat­ment, man­ag­ing pain and hold­ing on to hope.

Vance Riv­er, La Brea, res­i­dent Den­zil Ed­wards’ jour­ney is a clear ex­am­ple of a 360-de­gree turn­around: from be­ing boot­ed out of a youth camp to forg­ing a tem­po­rary life in Cana­da and toil­ing in agri­cul­tur­al fields, he has learned that a sim­ple life is worth liv­ing.