In the heart of T&T, a trans­for­ma­tive ini­tia­tive took place that aimed to re­shape the per­spec­tives of young men on do­mes­tic vi­o­lence and mas­culin­i­ty. This ini­tia­tive was spear­head­ed by the Coali­tion Against Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence (CADV) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme un­der the aus­pices of the Min­istry of Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice (MYDNS).

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor and Prin­ci­pal Pub­li­cist at Cham­bers Me­dia So­lu­tions Te­nille Clarke has tak­en a lead­ing role in am­pli­fy­ing the voice of the Caribbean in the in­ter­na­tion­al are­na.

Trin­bag­on­ian-born US tele­vi­sion per­son­al­i­ty Shaee­da Sween was the fea­tured speak­er at Brunch With WE host­ed by Guardian Me­dia’s WE mag­a­zine in col­lab­o­ra­tion with CNC3 at Rasam Restau­rant on Au­gust 3.

Guardian Me­dia’s WE mag­a­zine in col­lab­o­ra­tion with CNC3 host­ed Brunch With WE at Rasam Restau­rant on Au­gust 3. The event brought to­geth­er women from var­i­ous back­grounds.

Mul­ti­fac­eted Don­na Ly­dia Mo­ra, CEO of the Lopinot Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (LTA) and man­ag­er of the Lopinot Choco­late Com­pa­ny, is a tour guide, choco­lati­er, wood-burn­ing artist, jew­eller and bas­ket weaver, among oth­er things. Her fa­ther, Mar­tin Gomez, is a liv­ing parang trea­sure in Lopinot, and they share their pas­sion for their com­mu­ni­ty.

Par­ents are called up­on to nur­ture, pro­vide ba­sic needs, and help their chil­dren with their be­liefs, goals, and cop­ing strate­gies. They are the pil­lars of love, guid­ance and sup­port. The hat they wear has many branch­es and part of their du­ty is al­so to pro­vide ed­u­ca­tion, re­li­gion, and moral train­ing. The end goal is to pre­pare the child to en­ter the world of adult­hood as a well-round­ed, pro­duc­tive adult.

Ke­to­nia Do­minique as­pires to serve as a role mod­el for young women. The 25 year old aims to be­come a pi­lot for the na­tion­al car­ri­er Caribbean Air­lines and has al­ready made his­to­ry by be­com­ing the first lo­cal­ly trained fe­male to at­tain a pi­lot’s li­cence in T&T.

Beryl, a cat­e­go­ry five hur­ri­cane, struck the south­east­ern Caribbean on Ju­ly 1 this year, caus­ing wide­spread dev­as­ta­tion across mul­ti­ple is­lands. With sus­tained winds of 150 mph, Beryl land­ed on Car­ri­a­cou, part of Grena­da, and wreaked hav­oc on Pe­tite Mar­tinique and Union Is­land.

World Breast­feed­ing Week is held in the first week of Au­gust every year to in­spire and en­cour­age moth­ers to breast­feed ba­bies. The theme for 2024 is Clos­ing The Gap: Breast­feed­ing Sup­port For All. The cam­paign will cel­e­brate breast­feed­ing moth­ers in all their di­ver­si­ty, through­out their breast­feed­ing jour­neys, while show­cas­ing the ways fam­i­lies, so­ci­eties, com­mu­ni­ties and health­care work­ers can help to sup­port every breast­feed­ing moth­er in a va­ri­ety of ways.

De­clared a na­tion­al hol­i­day in 1985 and cel­e­brat­ed on Au­gust 1 an­nu­al­ly, African Eman­ci­pa­tion Day in T&T com­mem­o­rates the free­dom of the for­mer­ly en­slaved African peo­ple fol­low­ing 400 years of sub­ju­ga­tion by colo­nial pow­ers and in­ter­ests.

As the Olympic Games take place in Paris, there is a fierce bat­tle tak­ing place on the side­lines. The World An­ti-Dop­ing Agency (WA­DA) has been in con­flict with the US Gov­ern­ment. US law­mak­ers have ac­cused WA­DA of fail­ing to in­ves­ti­gate dop­ing al­le­ga­tions against Chi­nese swim­mers prop­er­ly.

When she was an eight-year-old girl, Rachel Welch-Phillips moved with her fam­i­ly to Cara­cas, where her fa­ther served for close to nine years as a civ­il ser­vant at the T&T em­bassy.