Young per­form­ers from the Khal­nayak Dance Acad­e­my took to the stage for the acad­e­my’s dance pro­duc­tion, Where Dance Meets Cul­ture, at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA) on Sat­ur­day, Ju­ly 18.

Most peo­ple ig­nore stress and keep push­ing be­cause they don’t re­alise how much dam­age it’s qui­et­ly do­ing.

On Ju­ly 27, 1990, I was 23 years old, a young jour­nal­ist work­ing at NBS Ra­dio 610, un­aware that I was about to wit­ness one of the most defin­ing mo­ments in the his­to­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

DIS­CLAIMER: Par­rots are among Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most trea­sured na­tive wildlife and sev­er­al species, in­clud­ing our Ama­zon par­rots, are pro­tect­ed by law. The cap­ture, pos­ses­sion or trade of wild par­rots is il­le­gal and con­tributes to a de­cline of wild pop­u­la­tions. This ar­ti­cle is NOT in­tend­ed to en­cour­age the keep­ing of wild-caught birds. Rather, it is to ed­u­cate those in­di­vid­u­als who legal­ly own li­censed par­rots or who have ap­plied for nec­es­sary per­mits through rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties, to pro­mote re­spon­si­ble own­er­ship and im­prove the health and wel­fare of birds al­ready in hu­man care.

It is be­lieved that ex­po­sure to green spaces helps low­er stress, re­duces fa­tigue, and im­proves mood—some­thing that the staff at Green Beard Nurs­eries Ltd wit­ness dai­ly. For al­though the vicin­i­ty in which the plant shop is lo­cat­ed is some­what of a busy shop­ping hub, those who en­ter Green Beard can find so­lace in the green­ery and pops of colour of the many rare or­na­men­tal plants and fruit trees beck­on­ing to be tak­en home—from peace and calla lilies, to or­chids, suc­cu­lents and bromeli­ads, as well as a num­ber of graft­ed cit­rus, man­goes and oth­ers.

Fear is a com­plex emo­tion. It can make us shy away from chal­lenges but can al­so push us to do things we nev­er imag­ined. And for Mush­taq Ali and his fam­i­ly, the fear of their busi­ness be­ing loot­ed and de­stroyed dur­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup was so strong that they opt­ed to stake out and pro­tect it.

At first glance, the ti­tle Ask­ing for the Hus­band You Want and Get­ting the One You Get sparks im­me­di­ate as­sump­tions. Many read­ers be­lieve it is ei­ther a Chris­t­ian self-help guide or a work­book de­signed to help women choose the ide­al hus­band. Oth­ers as­sume it is a re­la­tion­ship jour­nal root­ed en­tire­ly in faith-based teach­ings.

“There is on­ly one thing worth be­ing con­cerned about. Mary has dis­cov­ered it, and it will not be tak­en away from her” (Luke 10:42).

Every Jan­u­ary, we en­thu­si­as­ti­cal­ly set goals, cre­ate vi­sion boards, make res­o­lu­tions, and promise our­selves that this year will be dif­fer­ent. We be­gin with op­ti­mism, de­ter­mi­na­tion, and a be­lief that suc­cess is just around the cor­ner. Yet, some­where be­tween the de­mands of work, fam­i­ly re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, un­ex­pect­ed chal­lenges, and the pace of every­day life, many of those goals be­gin to fade or be put on the back burn­er.

Pic­ture this: You walk in­to a restau­rant wear­ing your Sun­day best and au­to­mat­i­cal­ly be­come part of the cast for a the­atri­cal per­for­mance. While you wine and dine, you and those at your ta­ble try to solve a mys­tery by the end of the night. Well, you can ex­pe­ri­ence this in a few weeks. Lo­cal per­form­ing arts com­pa­ny Teatro Journee will host its first din­ner the­atre ex­pe­ri­ence ti­tled Served—a comedic mur­der mys­tery.

Sar­co­ma and Bone Can­cer Aware­ness Month, ob­served every Ju­ly, ex­ists to push an of­ten over­looked can­cer out of the shad­ows: to get more peo­ple screened, more symp­toms caught ear­ly, and more sto­ries told, so that no one fac­ing a di­ag­no­sis feels like they are the first per­son to walk that road. Sar­co­ma is a can­cer that de­vel­ops in the body’s con­nec­tive tis­sues, such as bone, mus­cle, fat, car­ti­lage, blood ves­sels, ten­dons, or the lin­ing of joints, rather than in or­gans or glands the way most com­mon­ly known can­cers (breast, lung, colon) do. Bone sar­co­mas, such as os­teosar­co­ma, arise in the bone it­self and most of­ten af­fect chil­dren, teens, and young adults, typ­i­cal­ly near the knee or up­per arm.

Since 2014, Munroe Road Archery Club (MRAC) has been more than just a train­ing ground; it is a sanc­tu­ary where young minds are sharp­ened along­side their ar­rows.