For many new moth­ers, breast­feed­ing is por­trayed as some­thing that should come nat­u­ral­ly, an in­stinc­tive act that moth­er and ba­by sim­ply know how to do. Na­tion­al Breast­feed­ing Week is an an­nu­al ob­ser­vance from Au­gust 1-7 that high­lights the im­por­tance of breast­feed­ing and the wide-rang­ing ben­e­fits it pro­vides for ba­bies, moth­ers and fam­i­lies. It is al­so an op­por­tu­ni­ty to pro­mote greater aware­ness, ed­u­ca­tion and sup­port for moth­ers, while ad­dress­ing the chal­lenges and mis­con­cep­tions that can sur­round breast­feed­ing. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, the week pro­vides an im­por­tant plat­form to en­cour­age in­formed con­ver­sa­tions about breast­feed­ing, strength­en ac­cess to lac­ta­tion sup­port and re­mind moth­ers that they do not have to nav­i­gate their feed­ing jour­ney alone.

For young mu­si­cians Ar­mani Chi­napoo Sealey and Kaylie Car­di­nal, the steel­pan is much more than a mu­si­cal in­stru­ment; it is a tool for per­son­al growth, a bridge to their com­mu­ni­ty, and a can­vas for the fu­ture. As proud mem­bers of the Gold­en Hands Steel Or­ches­tra, these two stu­dents are dis­cov­er­ing that the dis­ci­pline re­quired to mas­ter the pan trans­lates di­rect­ly to the class­room and be­yond.

Fer­ment­ed foods, much like the Boochie Brew kom­bucha pro­duced by Casidy Mo­hamed, of­fer pow­er­ful health perks.

“For I am per­suad­ed, that nei­ther death, nor life, nor an­gels, nor prin­ci­pal­i­ties, nor pow­ers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any oth­er crea­ture, shall be able to sep­a­rate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Je­sus our Lord.” (Ro­mans 8:38 &39)

Whether she is bring­ing a fairy tale char­ac­ter to life on stage or prepar­ing a school project, 12-year-old Char­l­ize Ra­nia Ra­goonath con­tin­ues to show de­ter­mi­na­tion, tal­ent and dis­ci­pline.

Nau­sea and vom­it­ing are among the most com­mon symp­toms of ear­ly preg­nan­cy. Of­ten re­ferred to as “morn­ing sick­ness”, preg­nan­cy sick­ness can oc­cur at any time of the day or night and can range from mild nau­sea to re­peat­ed vom­it­ing that in­ter­feres with work, eat­ing and every­day ac­tiv­i­ties.

When your ve­hi­cle needs a re­pair, your garage will like­ly hand you an es­ti­mate and ask a crit­i­cal ques­tion: “Do you want to use orig­i­nal parts or af­ter­mar­ket parts?” For many ve­hi­cle own­ers, the word “af­ter­mar­ket” car­ries a neg­a­tive stig­ma, in­stant­ly bring­ing to mind “cheap”, in­fe­ri­or knock­offs that will break down in a short pe­ri­od. How­ev­er, un­der­stand­ing the true dif­fer­ence be­tween part clas­si­fi­ca­tions can save you thou­sands of dol­lars with­out ever com­pro­mis­ing your safe­ty.

Grad sea­son may be just about over, but that doesn’t mean that cou­turière Ker­risha Carter has to stop cel­e­brat­ing. And who can blame her? Re­cent­ly, one of her gowns claimed the “best dressed” ti­tle at the St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary cer­e­mo­ny, worn by 17-year-old Aaliyah Young.

Orig­i­nal­ly com­posed as the na­tion­al an­them for the short-lived West In­dies Fed­er­a­tion, this song was edit­ed and adopt­ed by the is­land of Trinidad and To­ba­go when it gained its in­de­pen­dence in 1962.

Bo­cas Cou­va suc­cess­ful­ly launched the Bo­cas Lit Fest’s 2026 se­ries of com­mu­ni­ty lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al fes­ti­vals on Sat­ur­day, Ju­ly 18, trans­form­ing the Lisas Gar­dens Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre in­to a vi­brant hub of sto­ry­telling, per­for­mance, mu­sic, and com­mu­ni­ty con­nec­tion.

Type 2 di­a­betes, high blood pres­sure, high blood cho­les­terol, weight prob­lems and gut is­sues are some ma­jor health con­cerns that I en­counter in my field of nu­tri­tion and di­et ther­a­py.

In 1950, the Trinidad Guardian pub­lished a lengthy ar­ti­cle—“Colum­bus Brings Sug­ar Cane to West In­dies.” The au­thor was Er­ic Williams, the fu­ture prime min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go. The au­thor stat­ed that in 1493, Christo­pher Colum­bus trans­port­ed cane across the ocean, “…with the de­lib­er­ate in­ten­tion of ac­cli­ma­tis­ing it and mak­ing the West In­dies the sug­ar bowl of Eu­rope.”