Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 150 pupils at­tend the Laven­tille Girls’ Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, lo­cat­ed at Bertie Mar­shall Boule­vard, Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille, and prin­ci­pal Pa­tri­cia Thor­ing­ton is de­ter­mined that every one of them leaves as "an el­e­vat­ed per­son in some way."

The Unit­ed Na­tions de­fines hu­man traf­fick­ing as “the re­cruit­ment, trans­porta­tion, trans­fer, har­bour­ing, or re­ceipt of per­sons by im­prop­er means (such as force, ab­duc­tion, fraud, or co­er­cion) for an im­prop­er pur­pose in­clud­ing forced labour or sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion.”

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd, the T&T Can­cer So­ci­ety (TTCS) is host­ing its first on­line Text-a-thon and auc­tion to­mor­row.

Bri­an Ash­ing is a typ­i­cal dig­i­tal-age, me­dia-in­spired mil­len­nia whose ear­ly in­ter­est in art was fu­elled by fan­ta­sy and sci-fi tele­vi­sion shows and video games. He and his broth­er would record episodes of their favourite car­toons which would lat­er be paused dur­ing play­back so they could draw the char­ac­ters.

Kryz­tan­na Sharpe’s call to “Get Your Vac­cine and Go Your Way” and 11-year-old Va­sud­ha Ma­haraj’s ap­peal to “Jab Jab D’ Vac­cine” land­ed them top prizes in the UN in T&T’s Get Vaxxed song con­test.

PanoGra­ma En­ter­tain­ment, an or­gan­i­sa­tion ded­i­cat­ed to the ad­vance­ment of young peo­ple, has es­tab­lished a pro­fes­sion­al re­la­tion­ship with the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Mona cam­pus to pro­vide a train­ing ex­pe­ri­ence for in­terns study­ing Jour­nal­ism at the Caribbean School of Me­dia and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (Cari­mac).

Non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs) are chron­ic health con­di­tions that are not con­ta­gious to oth­ers. While a di­ag­no­sis can be scary, there are many op­tions in treat­ing or pre­vent­ing symp­toms. Learn­ing about your con­di­tion can be the best tool in man­ag­ing it.

Na­tion­al Prostate Health Month (NPHM), al­so known as Na­tion­al Prostate Can­cer Aware­ness Month, is ob­served every Sep­tem­ber by health ex­perts, health ad­vo­cates and in­di­vid­u­als con­cerned with men’s prostate health and prostate can­cer in North Amer­i­ca.

The NCD Al­liance yes­ter­day launched the in­au­gur­al Glob­al Char­ter on Mean­ing­ful In­volve­ment of Peo­ple Liv­ing with NCDs (Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases) aim­ing to lever­age the val­ue of lived ex­pe­ri­ence in health pol­i­cy, pro­gram­ming and de­ci­sion-mak­ing. The launch co­in­cides with the Glob­al Week for Ac­tion on NCDs, which will this year fo­cus on the pow­er of com­mu­ni­ties to dri­ve change for bet­ter health. The Glob­al Char­ter was de­vel­oped through ex­ten­sive con­sul­ta­tion with the NCD com­mu­ni­ty around the world. NCDs, in­clud­ing ill­ness­es such as hy­per­ten­sion, di­a­betes, can­cer, men­tal health con­di­tions and car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease cause more than 70 per cent of glob­al deaths, killing some 41 mil­lion peo­ple each year.

Through col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment un­der its Sus­tain­able Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Ini­tia­tive, the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion has com­mit­ted to in­vest­ing $337,500 in the com­mu­ni­ty of Per­se­ver­ance Vil­lage, for a pe­ri­od of one year. On Au­gust 26, Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion, op­er­a­tions man­ag­er, Cindyann Cur­ren­cy at­tend­ed a walk through in Per­se­ver­ance Vil­lage to meet the mem­bers and ex­plore the rich and his­toric el­e­ments of the com­mu­ni­ty.

More than 20,000 seedlings were dis­trib­uted to hun­dreds of per­sons across the Ma­yaro com­mu­ni­ty, through an agri­cul­tur­al ini­tia­tive spon­sored by bpTT, at the Ma­yaro Re­source Cen­tre.

On Au­gust 29, Nes­ta Bona­parte Patrick, a dis­tin­guished ed­u­ca­tor, so­cial work­er and the old­est sur­viv­ing mem­ber of the T&T As­so­ci­a­tion for the Hear­ing Im­paired (TTAHI) qui­et­ly cel­e­brat­ed her 99th birth­day.