Al­ta’s sig­na­ture event, Read­ings Un­der the Trees, re­turned last Sat­ur­day (March 18) af­ter a three-year hia­tus.

First ob­served in 2006 by Down Syn­drome In­ter­na­tion­al, March 21 was of­fi­cial­ly de­clared World Down Syn­drome Day by the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in 2011.

Our ra­di­ant lead­ing ladies ful­ly en­dorse our top-class lo­cal fash­ion de­sign­ers. Whether it is get­ting dressed for a pres­i­den­tial in­au­gu­ra­tion or an­oth­er oc­ca­sion, they proud­ly sup­port lo­cal and do so with style and re­splen­dence!

In her grow­ing years, Omela Ali watched her moth­er rise ear­ly to “farm the land” and raise eight chil­dren sin­gle-hand­ed­ly in cen­tral Trinidad dur­ing the 1960s. Ali al­ways re­solved that she would do “big things.” Tak­ing her cue from the hard work of her moth­er, years lat­er, Ali moved from be­ing a busi­ness­woman in the agro­chem­i­cal sec­tor to be­com­ing co-founder and CEO of Min­er­al Mines of Trinidad Ltd and the sole fe­male op­er­a­tor of a quar­ry in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Five years in­to the field, she hopes to im­pact the eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment of this coun­try and con­tin­ue to pave the way for women who wish to en­ter the ex­trac­tive in­dus­try or any area of busi­ness.

As an ed­u­ca­tor, Dr Ster­ling Frost finds it dis­heart­en­ing to see stu­dents with im­mense aca­d­e­m­ic po­ten­tial un­der­go se­vere dis­tress due to an in­abil­i­ty to fi­nance their ed­u­ca­tion.

On the morn­ing of Oc­to­ber 25 last year, re­spect­ed Hait­ian jour­nal­ist Rober­son Alphonse was on his way to ra­dio sta­tion, Magik9, to take up du­ties as a talk show host in the trou­bled city of Le Cayes.

The UK’s Women’s Prize for Fic­tion is award­ed an­nu­al­ly to a fe­male au­thor of any na­tion­al­i­ty for the best orig­i­nal full-length nov­el writ­ten in Eng­lish and pub­lished in the Unit­ed King­dom in the pre­ced­ing year.

As we ap­proach the pres­i­den­tial in­au­gu­ra­tion 2023 that takes place to­mor­row, WE puts the spot­light on our lo­cal fash­ion in­dus­try. For those who have made the list of in­vi­tees for this spe­cial na­tion­al event and for oth­ers who may be prepar­ing to at­tend oth­er im­por­tant func­tions, you know that look­ing your best when you step out is para­mount. You should al­ways strive for a good bal­ance be­tween be­ing at­trac­tive, clas­sic and pow­er­ful.

Ca­nine in­fluen­za, al­so known as dog flu, is a high­ly con­ta­gious res­pi­ra­to­ry dis­ease af­fect­ing dogs. It is a Type A in­fluen­za virus. Two dif­fer­ent strains of ca­nine in­fluen­za virus have been iden­ti­fied thus far: an H3N8 virus and an H3N2 virus.

The Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School (NGHS) Non No­bis Foun­da­tion en­gaged close to 100 women in an em­pow­er­ment sem­i­nar last week Sat­ur­day at the school’s au­di­to­ri­um in cel­e­bra­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day (IWD).

“Be brave, be vul­ner­a­ble, and ac­cept your life as a se­ries of ex­cit­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties,” This ad­vice to preg­nant women weary of so­ci­etal ex­pec­ta­tions comes from Hema Ramkissoon, for­mer host of CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew.

When In­ter­Club was found­ed in 1984 and 39 years lat­er, our mem­ber­ship con­tin­ues to ho­n­our the mis­sion state­ment “to em­pow­er all women, es­pe­cial­ly the mar­gin­alised and un­der­served.” On be­half of our mem­bers, I am de­light­ed to join women across the globe in cel­e­brat­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day (IWD). This cel­e­bra­tion at the lo­cal lev­el in T&T takes place every year. Our an­nu­al IWD Tea is now a sta­ple on the cal­en­dar of events of T&T. This year was no dif­fer­ent, as we cel­e­brat­ed IWD with our An­nu­al Af­ter­noon Tea at the Hilton Trinidad on March 5.