Em­body­ing the live­ly and ex­cit­ing na­ture of the sport­ing world in his per­son, Gyasi Mer­rique en­er­get­i­cal­ly presents the ex­cit­ing de­vel­op­ments in sport for the CNC3 7 pm news­cast. An ex­pert and a lover of all things sport, Gyasi has been cov­er­ing sport news in some ca­pac­i­ty for over 15 years.

A read­er, writer, and sto­ry­teller, Ryan Ba­choo is the Lead Ed­i­tor–News­gath­er­ing, and co-an­chor for the 7 pm news on CNC3. As a mul­ti­me­dia jour­nal­ist, his re­spon­si­bil­i­ties in­clude set­ting the dai­ly agen­da for the news, gen­er­at­ing sto­ry ideas, pro­duc­ing hu­man in­ter­est fea­tures, and pre­sent­ing the morn­ing show/prime time news. In his fam­i­ly of five, among his three sib­lings, his sis­ter was pin­point­ed to be a bud­ding jour­nal­ist dur­ing their child­hood. How­ev­er, as she chose a dif­fer­ent ca­reer path, Ba­choo emerged and went on to study jour­nal­ism.

Kalain Ho­sein is a cli­mate, weath­er, and en­vi­ron­men­tal jour­nal­ist with many years of ex­pe­ri­ence as the lead Weath­er An­chor at Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed. For Ho­sein, his work in the me­dia is the ul­ti­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tion of his merged love for the en­vi­ron­ment and me­te­o­rol­o­gy. From a young age, Ho­sein was very in­ter­est­ed in the en­vi­ron­ment. He knew af­ter mov­ing to the Unit­ed States with his fam­i­ly in 2010, that his in­ter­ests al­so ex­tend­ed to weath­er and cli­mate. Re­mem­ber­ing key weath­er pat­terns from when he was on­ly nine years old, Ho­sein vivid­ly de­scribed watch­ing the ef­fect of the In­di­an Ocean Tsuna­mi and Hur­ri­cane Ka­t­ri­na in 2004 and 2005.

In 2020, be­fore the pan­dem­ic, I was among sev­er­al writ­ers to at­tend a work­shop run by Earl Lovelace. The ar­rival to his home in the af­ter­noon stand­ing on a pitch-hot road at his gate, to be ush­ered past a dog that feels fierce, and fi­nal­ly, to sit at his ta­ble on his porch, dap­pled and green as a rain­for­est. To hear him read out loud, feel your ham­mer­ing heart as he gives a sen­tence you have writ­ten his full at­ten­tion, you feel like you have been ad­mit­ted in­to a holy space of es­sen­tial work.

A 35-stu­dent con­tin­gent from Fa­ti­ma Col­lege joined the world last Sat­ur­day, dur­ing a dri­ve to com­mem­o­rate In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Cleanup Day.

Three out­stand­ing daugh­ters of T&T will be ho­n­oured by the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Fo­rum Trinidad and To­ba­go (IWFTT) at their up­com­ing 2023 In­spi­ra­tional Women Awards Gala. This year marks the IWFTT’s sec­ond year of host­ing the In­spi­ra­tional Women Awards.

This week, Book­shelf fea­tures Bermu­di­an writer An­gela Bar­ry, whose nov­el, The Drowned For­est, was pub­lished by Peepal Tree Press in June 2022.

Fly­strike or fly­strike der­mati­tis, med­ical­ly termed as myi­a­sis, is a painful skin con­di­tion caused by flies lay­ing their eggs on an­oth­er an­i­mal. These hatch in­to mag­gots, which eat the flesh of their ‘hosts’.

At on­ly 20 years old, self-de­scribed “nor­mal Gen Z” Maya Kir­ti Nanan has al­ready done years of ex­tra­or­di­nary work. With her re­cent ac­co­lade as the 2023 Com­mon­wealth Young Per­son of the Year a fit­ting trib­ute for her ded­i­ca­tion to peo­ple on the Autism spec­trum, Nanan is a young woman un­doubt­ed­ly de­serv­ing of cel­e­bra­tion. She is the founder and one of the di­rec­tors of the Autism Sib­lings and Friends Net­work (ASFN), a non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion fo­cused on ad­vo­ca­cy for and sup­port of peo­ple with Autism.

With God, fam­i­ly mat­ters. God speaks in the lan­guage of fam­i­ly. Fam­i­ly is a way of think­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing, and func­tion­ing. Fam­i­ly is about iden­ti­ty and in­her­i­tance with­in an in­ti­mate en­vi­ron­ment.

What you wear says some­thing about who you are to peo­ple. Your out­fit is a form of self-ex­pres­sion. It can re­flect your lev­el of con­fi­dence and your mood–whether you are dar­ing, fierce, con­fi­dent, de­lib­er­ate, pur­pose­ful or hap­py.

When some­one says they are bipo­lar, we may be quick to do one of four things: judge them, dis­tance our­selves, be­come dis­mis­sive, or of­fer un­so­licit­ed ad­vice.