One of the most im­por­tant ques­tions that par­ents should ask their doc­tor is, “If my child has a fever, when should I bring her to see you?”

Ther­a­py of any kind can help in­di­vid­u­als cope with chal­lenges and im­prove their phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al and men­tal well-be­ing. Mu­sic, too, can serve as a form of ther­a­py, help­ing chil­dren and adults with so­cial­i­sa­tion chal­lenges, anx­i­ety and even de­men­tia.

Ever since she could re­call, she had a strong pas­sion for the vi­su­al arts—her favourite sub­ject at school. How­ev­er, when she was at Bish­op Anstey High, she was en­cour­aged to ex­plore oth­er paths con­sid­ered more prac­ti­cal. She went on to be­come a lawyer.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

While the north coast of Trinidad draws vis­i­tors with blue-green wa­ters, ac­tive cur­rents and waves, and the east coast fea­tures a pow­er­ful At­lantic surf, the is­land’s south­ern and south-west­ern shores of­fer a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent ex­pe­ri­ence. Shel­tered by the Gulf of Paria, the sea fea­tures gen­tler wa­ters, ex­pan­sive, shal­low shores—tru­ly fam­i­ly-friend­ly en­vi­ron­ments.

“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.