It’s a strange phe­nom­e­non to grow up with your coun­try. At first, you are un­aware of it. In your ear­ly years, no­body re­al­ly fussed about it un­less you were ac­tu­al­ly born on Au­gust 31.

Michelle Oba­ma con­fi­dent­ly de­clared: ‘There is no lim­it to what we, as women, can ac­com­plish.”

If you went by Deb­bie Ja­cob’s pro­lif­ic work in T&T as colum­nist, jour­nal­ist, film pro­duc­er, au­thor of five study com­pan­ions for Caribbean lit­er­a­ture, four works of fic­tion and three works of non­fic­tion, you would find it hard to be­lieve that her naval string wasn’t buried in these is­lands.

Mak­ing sal­ad dress­ing can feel daunt­ing for many of us. We ei­ther fear it a lit­tle, and keep hit­ting the bot­tle (bot­tled dress­ing, of course), or if we do make our own, we get stuck in that one-dress­ing rut.

​As you and your child pre­pare for the first day of the new school year, WE cre­at­ed a check­list to help ease the edge, re­duce the nat­ur­al anx­i­eties as­so­ci­at­ed with the tran­si­tion from va­ca­tion-mode to school-mode and en­sure you feel pre­pared!

Net­flix has a lim­it­ed se­ries on the Depp vs Heard defama­tion tri­al that is worth watch­ing. We are aware that hon­esty and trust are im­por­tant pil­lars of any re­la­tion­ship. While it’s im­pos­si­ble to be­come a hu­man lie de­tec­tor, un­der­stand­ing the sub­tle cues and be­hav­iour­al pat­terns as­so­ci­at­ed with ly­ing can sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove your abil­i­ty to spot when some­one might be bend­ing the truth. Be­low are six com­mon signs that can help you iden­ti­fy when some­one might be ly­ing.

From the sleepy fish­ing vil­lage of Black Rock, To­ba­go emerged a woman who be­came the bass of the steel­pan com­mu­ni­ty in T&T.

The DC Shell The­atre, Crazy Catholic and Cin­don pro­duc­tion of Snow White and the 7 Tri­nis was held at Queens Hall on Au­gust 12 and Au­gust 13.

To many SHE Casa is a haven where one can es­cape and re­turn in­vig­o­rat­ed and ready to take on the world! Be it en­gag­ing your core in grav­i­ty defin­ing pole danc­ing class­es, learn­ing a new dance move and ac­ti­vat­ing mus­cles you didn’t re­alise you had, or de­stress­ing with like-mind­ed women in a space that feels like a sanc­tu­ary!

Thy­roid dis­ease is a rel­a­tive­ly com­mon prob­lem in dogs. While it is usu­al­ly treat­able, learn­ing that your dog has a thy­roid con­di­tion is un­der­stand­ably con­cern­ing.

And who wouldn’t be. As one of the re­gion’s lead­ing econ­o­mists and ad­vis­ers, Dukha­ran’s pro­found in­sights on Caribbean eco­nom­ic is­sues have in­flu­enced state pol­i­cy and pri­vate sec­tor de­ci­sion-mak­ing through­out the years.

My moth­er re­cent­ly cel­e­brat­ed her 90th birth­day. It was mo­men­tous, not on­ly be­cause she is a decade short of a cen­tu­ry but be­cause we, my sib­lings and I, were all brought to­geth­er in one space for the first time in quite a long time.