The promise sounds ir­re­sistible be­cause of the thought of los­ing weight quick­ly and curb­ing your ap­petite to achieve the body you’ve been chas­ing for years. Weight loss drugs have def­i­nite­ly gained pop­u­lar­i­ty over the past few years. Mar­ket­ing is high­ly fo­cused on us­ing in­flu­encers and celebri­ties to pro­mote prod­ucts.

Many dads out there may be con­cerned about their lev­el of fit­ness. Fit­ness is not about weight lift­ing but about the ex­er­cise rou­tines to en­sure you're healthy and able to move with­out any is­sues or chal­lenges. So for this Fa­ther's Day, Keeon Tay­lor pro­vides some guid­ance.

He may not be a fa­ther in the tra­di­tion­al sense of the word, but for the past 50 years, Mon­sign­or Chris­t­ian Pereira has as­sumed the role of “Fa­ther” to thou­sands of parish­ioners through­out Trinidad. Pereira was or­dained to the priest­hood in 1976 and was be­stowed with the ti­tle of mon­sign­or in recog­ni­tion of his dis­tin­guished ser­vice to the Church in 2003. He has al­so served as Cathe­dral ad­min­is­tra­tor, Vic­ar Gen­er­al and Arch­dioce­san ad­min­is­tra­tor.

“Slav­ery was an eco­nom­ic in­sti­tu­tion of the first im­por­tance. It had been the ba­sis of the Greek econ­o­my and had built up the Ro­man Em­pire. In mod­ern times, it pro­vid­ed the sug­ar for the tea and the cof­fee cups of the West­ern world. It pro­duced the cot­ton to serve as a base for mod­ern cap­i­tal­ism. It made the Amer­i­can South and the Caribbean is­lands. The rea­son was eco­nom­ic, not racial. It had to do not with the colour of the labour­er, but the cheap­ness of the labour."

And the Lord said, “I have sure­ly seen the af­flic­tion of my peo­ple, which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by rea­son of their taskmas­ters, for I know their sor­rows. And I am come down to de­liv­er them out of the hand of the Egyp­tians and to bring them up out of that land un­to a good land and a large one, un­to a land flow­ing with milk and hon­ey, un­to the place of the Canaan­ites, and the Hit­tites, and the Amor­ites, and the Per­izzites, and the Hivites, and the Je­busites.

Stan­dard Five stu­dents of St Mary’s An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School pose for a pho­to dur­ing their grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the school’s com­pound in Tacarigua on Wednes­day, June 17.

The term “vul­var dy­s­tro­phy” was com­mon­ly used in the past to de­scribe chron­ic skin con­di­tions af­fect­ing the vul­va (the ex­ter­nal fe­male gen­i­tal area). To­day, gy­nae­col­o­gists use more spe­cif­ic di­ag­noses be­cause these con­di­tions have dif­fer­ent caus­es, treat­ments, and long-term im­pli­ca­tions.

Azaria Bis­sooon­dath has al­ready learned lessons in brav­ery, dili­gence and re­silience that many adults spend a life­time try­ing to mas­ter. Bis­sooon­dath, hail­ing from Princes Town, cel­e­brat­ed her 13th birth­day on June 11 and is prepar­ing to em­bark on a new chap­ter of her life as she tran­si­tions to sec­ondary school. With an im­pair­ment that many may view as in­sur­mount­able, Bis­soon­dath has faced some of the great chal­lenges of child­hood, such as the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment, with courage and con­fi­dence.

For more than two decades, Gary Ja­grup has made Trinidad and To­ba­go laugh with a gift few pos­sess - the abil­i­ty to be­come some­one else with just the sound of his voice.

Ja­maican reg­gae artiste Austill “Zag­ga” Hen­ry has spent years build­ing a rep­u­ta­tion for up­lift­ing mu­sic and con­scious mes­sages, but 2026 may prove to be his biggest year yet.

In the bustling town and ur­ban com­mu­ni­ty of San Juan, 11A San­ta Cruz Old Road will come alive to­day from 6 pm, when the gates of Pam­beri Steel Or­ches­tra’s (Pam­beri) pa­n­yard open for the sev­enth stag­ing of Labour & Steel.

When Seon Nurse steps on­to one of the world’s biggest cul­tur­al stages as chore­o­g­ra­ph­er for a FI­FA Fan Fes­ti­val pre­sen­ta­tion with Uni­ver­Soul Cir­cus, he car­ries much more than chore­og­ra­phy with him.