Presto is ex­pand­ing its school hy­dro­pon­ics pro­gramme, tak­ing its agri­cul­tur­al and en­tre­pre­neur­ship ini­tia­tive to Mara­bel­la Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, as the com­pa­ny seeks to equip pupils with prac­ti­cal farm­ing and busi­ness skills.

The Cair­com Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CP­SO) is call­ing for per­ma­nent ex­emp­tions from US mar­itime ser­vice fees for Caribbean ship­ping, warn­ing that any lapse could in­crease freight costs and dis­rupt the move­ment of goods across the re­gion.

On Sat­ur­day on Is­ports, we had to read the shock­ing news that the an­nu­al Sec­ondary Schools Swim Meet—sched­uled for Sun­day—had to be can­celled be­cause the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre was not in a safe con­di­tion for spec­ta­tors, swim­mers, or coach­es.

Grow­ing up in Bar­rack­pore, where his par­ents worked as cane farm­ers, Dr Sharaz Khan learnt ear­ly that suc­cess was not sim­ply about how far one trav­elled in life, but about re­mem­ber­ing where the jour­ney be­gan.

Af­ter breast­feed­ing and lov­ing it up, the next best thing you can do for a child is mak­ing sure it gets all its vac­ci­na­tions.