There are two oth­er com­mon leg prob­lems that both­er par­ents. They are: 1) tod­dlers who trip and fall and 2) grow­ing pains in young chil­dren.

In her ho­n­our, the birth­day of 90-year-long US-based Mar­garet Mon­i­ca Gid­dings-Es­delle, called Mam­my Es­delle by chil­dren, and Mar­garet gen­er­al­ly, was elab­o­rate­ly marked on Sep­tem­ber 5 from 5–11 pm at the All-White Cel­e­bra­tion at Sig­na­ture Hall in Ch­agua­nas, Trinidad.

For much of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the name most close­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with sail­ing around the world is La Bor­de.

It was ex­act­ly 125 years ago to­day, on Sep­tem­ber 21, 1901, that a child was born in the qui­et, rolling foothills of Pe­tit Val­ley who would go on to shake the foun­da­tions of the British Em­pire.

“We must not be afraid of prob­lems. Nor should we mere­ly con­demn our­selves, throw our hands up in de­spair, turn our backs, or oth­er­wise ig­nore chal­lenges. We must ad­dress them with qui­et re­solve, and emerge the wis­er as a re­sult.” This was the Re­pub­lic Day mes­sage of Pres­i­dent Noor M. Has­sanali in 1993. Such ad­vice is still ap­plic­a­ble to T&T and oth­er na­tions.

Vet­eri­nar­i­ans are see­ing it again: a rise in con­firmed ca­nine dis­tem­per cas­es across the coun­try, along with no­table cas­es of dogs show­ing signs very much con­sis­tent with the dis­ease. This is an im­por­tant re­minder that one of the most se­ri­ous dis­eases is still out there, and vac­ci­na­tion mat­ters.

When Fire­ball isn’t lay­ing down tracks in the stu­dio—he re­cent­ly teamed up with Squeezy Rankin on the sin­gle Go­ril­la Glue—you’ll usu­al­ly catch him in the kitchen, bub­bling up an­oth­er pot for his busi­ness, Firechef Cuisines.

Avrill first no­ticed bruis­es on her son Matthias’s arms and legs when he was three years old. They ap­peared with­out ex­pla­na­tion. There were no falls, no bumps and no rough play to ac­count for them. Then came the fever, per­sis­tent and un­re­lent­ing, and pain so se­vere that some days the tod­dler could not stand.

On Re­pub­lic Day, pa­tri­o­tism is of­ten ex­pressed in fa­mil­iar sym­bols of the red, white and black, the na­tion­al an­them, the flag. There are, how­ev­er, qui­eter ways to ex­press na­tion­al ded­i­ca­tion that hap­pen with­out pomp and cer­e­mo­ny: in a lab­o­ra­to­ry.

Col­leagues and friends of the late re­tired po­lice­woman Ru­by Lewis say that she paved the way for oth­er women in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice to fol­low, not­ing that her con­tri­bu­tions to the ser­vice, par­tic­u­lar­ly the for­ma­tion and man­age­ment of ear­ly Po­lice Youth Clubs, are a mod­el fol­lowed to this day.

Re­pub­lic Day 2026 is tak­ing on a whole new mean­ing for staff and sup­pli­ers of Xtra Foods Ltd. Over 2,500 peo­ple have reg­is­tered for the com­pa­ny’s 5K on Sep­tem­ber 24, with pro­ceeds go­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Can­cer So­ci­ety.

Jer­mal “Jer­nol” Cal­len­der is thrilled af­ter his song Prob­lem Mak­ers helped a steel­band earn the 2026 UK Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Band ti­tle.