In­fer­til­i­ty is far more com­mon in Trinidad and To­ba­go than most peo­ple re­alise, af­fect­ing an es­ti­mat­ed one in six cou­ples. Yet it re­mains one of the coun­try’s most qui­et­ly en­dured chal­lenges. Be­hind closed doors, many nav­i­gate un­cer­tain­ty, mis­in­for­ma­tion and stig­ma with lit­tle sup­port in an at­tempt to grow their fam­i­lies. For the past 20-plus years, The Trinidad and To­ba­go IVF and Fer­til­i­ty Cen­tre (TTIVF) has sup­port­ed count­less fam­i­lies strug­gling with in­fer­til­i­ty by help­ing them con­ceive the pre­cious gift of new life. The cen­tre has achieved sev­er­al ma­jor feats, in­clud­ing the birth of the first IVF ba­by in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean in 1997 and the de­liv­ery of more than 3,000 ba­bies since 2008.

Fire­stone Restau­rant of Brent­wood brought Mex­i­can flair to Ch­agua­nas with an ex­tend­ed Cin­co de Mayo cel­e­bra­tion on May 5.

Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Ltd re­cent­ly part­nered with Unit­ed Way T&T to trans­form the Ed­in­burgh Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School for their Na­tion­al Day of Car­ing ini­tia­tive.

Glob­al­ly, an es­ti­mat­ed one mil­lion plas­tic bot­tles are pur­chased every minute. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, many of them even­tu­al­ly end up in drains, rivers and land­fills—fu­elling the flood­ing night­mare res­i­dents know all too well dur­ing the rainy sea­son.

Parish­ioners from the St Philip and St James RC Church re­cent­ly host­ed their an­nu­al Parish Har­vest at the church com­pound in Ch­agua­nas.

At 72, when most peo­ple are en­joy­ing their re­tire­ment, Zi­ta Phri­day-Lewis is prepar­ing to walk across the stage and re­ceive her Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Or­gan­i­sa­tion­al Man­age­ment. In Au­gust 2027, she will grad­u­ate—near­ly a decade af­ter earn­ing her Bach­e­lor’s de­gree at 65.

I of­ten get asked about the mag­ic of fer­ment­ed foods like kim­chi, which is usu­al­ly made with fer­ment­ed cab­bage. This is be­cause, as a Reg­is­tered Di­etit­ian Nu­tri­tion­ist, gut health among women has been a ma­jor con­cern. I was asked about su­per­foods that can heal the gut, but it’s im­por­tant to fo­cus on bal­anced eat­ing with ev­i­dence-based prac­tices. Fer­ment­ed foods have nu­tri­tion­al ben­e­fits, but there are many foods that con­tribute to di­ges­tive well­ness.

Nali­ni Pariag is no or­di­nary woman. She’s re­ferred to as a tem­plate for love, peace and re­silience. Born and raised in Cen­tral Trinidad in Ca­roni, Sa­van­nah Road, Ch­agua­nas, she said she came from a hum­ble, mid­dle-class fam­i­ly, and grew up in a lov­ing home along­side her sis­ters and one broth­er.

As ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Ju­di­cial Ed­u­ca­tion In­sti­tute, Genevieve Melanie Julien sup­ports the cu­ra­tion of pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment and train­ing pro­grammes for judges and ju­di­cial of­fi­cers. As a moth­er, she has and con­tin­ues to cu­rate and im­part many lessons in val­ues, re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and re­spect.

She may be called “sis­ter,” but with­in the hal­lowed halls of Holy Name Con­vent in Port-of-Spain, Sis­ter Re­nee Hall plays a role that tran­scends the class­room– she’s a moth­er.

It is in­cred­i­bly easy to view a week­end car wash as just a cos­met­ic lux­u­ry or a chore to put off un­til next month. How­ev­er, keep­ing your ve­hi­cle metic­u­lous­ly clean—both in­side and out—is ac­tu­al­ly a high­ly crit­i­cal safe­ty mea­sure that di­rect­ly im­pacts your abil­i­ty to dri­ve de­fen­sive­ly and re­act to haz­ards.

They say a moth­er is the on­ly per­son on Earth who can di­vide her love among five chil­dren and some­how each child still gets the whole thing. It is the world’s most de­mand­ing “nine to five”—ex­cept the clock nev­er stops and the job de­scrip­tion changes every sin­gle day.