The hoot­ing of the red howler mon­keys had my adren­a­line pump­ing while walk­ing through their ter­ri­to­ry in the Covi­gne Riv­er Gorge.

This week’s WE con­tin­ues the ex­plo­ration of the po­et and prose writer An­tho­ny (Vah­ni) Capildeo’s work. The pro­lif­ic Trinidad-born po­et (writer in Res­i­dence and Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of York, Vis­it­ing Schol­ar at Pem­broke Col­lege, Cam­bridge, and Hon­orary Stu­dent of Christ Church, Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty) won the pres­ti­gious For­ward Prize (2016) for their col­lec­tion “Mea­sures of Ex­pa­tri­a­tion”.

While a lot of own­ers are aware of heat­stroke in dogs, cats are thought to han­dle the heat bet­ter than oth­er an­i­mals be­cause of the the­o­ry that they have evolved from desert an­i­mals. The truth is that cats do not tol­er­ate heat any bet­ter. It is easy for cats to over­heat in warm weath­er be­cause, un­like hu­mans, they can­not re­move lay­ers of cloth­ing when it gets too hot; and they do not al­ways have the op­tion of mov­ing them­selves to cool­er places to avoid the sun. Cats are al­so un­able to cool down by sweat­ing in the way hu­mans do, so they are less ca­pa­ble of reg­u­lat­ing their body tem­per­a­ture. Cats on­ly sweat through their foot pads, and they al­so pant to get rid of ex­cess heat.

The Holy Name Con­vent (HNC) Ro­bot­ics Team made their school proud when they won the Ris­ing Stars award at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed “First Lego League Su­per­pow­ered Com­pe­ti­tion”. The over­all win­ners of the com­pe­ti­tion were Trin­i­ty Col­lege, but not even this could damp­en the spir­its of the HNC young ladies who were the high­est plac­ing girls’ team in the com­pe­ti­tion–third over­all–and win­ning an award for the team to watch in the fu­ture.

“Let’s go out there and res­cue some peo­ple.” Lu­cia Cabr­era-Jones, the co-founder of Women Owned Me­dia and Ed­u­ca­tion Net­work (W.O.M.E.N), pas­sion­ate­ly de­scribes the gen­e­sis of her NGO and the ethos at the core of their work.

The metic­u­lous na­ture of each cre­ation trans­lates in­to a wear­able piece, af­ter hours of her at­ten­tion. Each piece is unique­ly de­signed and hand-paint­ed, and then spe­cif­ic gar­ment treat­ments are ap­plied to en­sure the paint ad­heres to the fab­ric. The process is de­tailed and time con­sum­ing, how­ev­er, Big­ford shares, “When her clients first see their piece, their amaze­ment and ex­u­ber­ance make the process all worth­while.”

Croy­don was named Lon­don Bor­ough of Cul­ture for 2023, claim­ing the ti­tle from wor­thy com­peti­tors across the cap­i­tal to cop the £1.35M fund­ing award.

The mind of the cre­ative ge­nius is a com­plex and won­der­ful thing. Not on­ly have great artists shaped cul­ture and the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence for cen­turies, but they help us bet­ter un­der­stand how we ap­proach the world, rea­son, oc­cu­py our­selves, de­vel­op our abil­i­ties and pre­pare for the fu­ture.

En­ter­tain­ers Shaneil Muir, Louie Cul­ture, Iyara, and Sean Kingston were in top form at the Belle­vue Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, which took place last Sat­ur­day at Fes­ti­val Park in down­town Or­lan­do.

A com­mu­ni­ty green­house adds to food sus­tain­abil­i­ty with­in the com­mu­ni­ty. Last Mon­day, the com­mis­sion­ing of the RBC-spon­sored green­house in the vil­lage of Bethel took place.

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices host­ed its first ever So­cial Work­er of the Year Awards cer­e­mo­ny on May 11, at the Hy­att Re­gency, in Port-of-Spain, to ac­knowl­edge and cel­e­brate the achieve­ments of so­cial work­ers at­tached to the min­istry.

With all pro­ceeds to ben­e­fit women and girls with the nec­es­sary fem­i­nine san­i­tary prod­ucts they de­serve, come May 28, World Men­stru­al Hy­giene Day from 2-6 pm at the An­chor­age wa­ter­front, lo­cat­ed in Ch­aguara­mas at the north­west penin­su­la of Trinidad, Help­ing Her Foun­da­tion (HHF) will host its third an­nu­al tea par­ty and fash­ion show fundrais­er.