This is the sec­ond in a se­ries on men who shaped Trinida­di­an and Caribbean lit­er­a­ture. Af­ter C L R James, I turn to Sam Selvon, known to gen­er­a­tions of Trinida­di­an school­child­ren as the nov­el­ist of Trinidad vil­lages and post­war, Win­drush im­mi­grant Britain, writer of A Brighter Sun, The Lone­ly Lon­don­ers, Ways of Sun­light and the Moses books.

It is a com­mon au­to­mo­tive myth passed down through gen­er­a­tions of dri­vers: if your car is run­ning hot, just pour some tap wa­ter in­to the ra­di­a­tor and keep dri­ving. While adding wa­ter in an ab­solute, strand­ed-on-the-high­way emer­gency is mar­gin­al­ly bet­ter than let­ting your en­gine com­plete­ly melt down, us­ing plain wa­ter as your pri­ma­ry cool­ing flu­id is a guar­an­teed recipe for me­chan­i­cal dis­as­ter.

This top­ic is one of the most dev­as­tat­ing to write about be­cause we un­der­es­ti­mate the dam­age to our or­gans that can be caused by high blood sug­ar lev­els. As a reg­is­tered di­etit­ian nu­tri­tion­ist, I have to take this op­por­tu­ni­ty to ed­u­cate you on Di­a­betes mel­li­tus (DM). This is a health is­sue that af­fects mil­lions of peo­ple world­wide. Blood sug­ar lev­els rise most­ly be­cause of in­sulin re­sis­tance and can dam­age many vi­tal or­gans. There are del­i­cate blood ves­sels in your eyes which can be dam­aged by high blood sug­ar lev­els, lead­ing to an in­creased risk of vi­sion prob­lems and even blind­ness if left un­treat­ed. Prop­er man­age­ment and lifestyle choic­es can save your eye­sight.

Ma­teo Ali showed his sis­ter  Ele­na Ali  some broth­er­ly love af­ter plac­ing 2nd at Well­ness Fun Run at Freeport.

Quote: “What­ev­er is ex­pressed is im­pressed. What­ev­er you say to your­self, with emo­tion, gen­er­ates thoughts, ideas and be­hav­iours con­sis­tent with those words" – Bri­an Tra­cy.

Dr Leti­tia Williams has built her life around the adage, “to whom much is giv­en, much is re­quired.” So her re­cent el­e­va­tion to vice pres­i­dent of the Di­vi­sion of Stu­dent Af­fairs at Mor­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land, and her com­mit­ment to the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of her new role came as no sur­prise to those who know her.

Most women are fa­mil­iar with the term Poly­cys­tic Ovar­i­an Syn­drome (PCOS), a con­di­tion I have treat­ed fre­quent­ly at my gy­nae­co­log­i­cal prac­tice and I am see­ing an in­crease in in­ci­dence over the years. It is one of the most com­mon hor­mon­al dis­or­ders af­fect­ing women of re­pro­duc­tive age, im­pact­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly one in eight women world­wide.

Like many Caribbean na­tion­als, Ka­iande De­von­ish once set out with a clear ca­reer path, one root­ed in sci­ence, pre­ci­sion, and struc­ture. Trained as a chem­i­cal en­gi­neer, the tran­si­tion in­to Cana­di­an im­mi­gra­tion law was not part of the orig­i­nal plan.

At Take Five Health Bar Cafe on O’Con­nor Street in Wood­brook, the lunch crowd moves steadi­ly be­tween detox juices, salmon bowls, and tartines lay­ered high enough to stop cus­tomers mid-con­ver­sa­tion for pho­tographs.

High in the west­ern stretch of Trinidad’s North­ern Range, where the road nar­rows and the land falls away sharply to­ward the Caribbean Sea, Paramin sits wrapped in cloud and breeze.

Es­cap­ing a gi­ant alien squid on the moon, hood­wink­ing a dis­grun­tled ghost, win­ning a chut­ney cham­pi­onship, and a scor­pi­on pep­per com­pe­ti­tion. These are some of the wild sto­ries tum­bling from the minds of our na­tion’s chil­dren and in­clud­ed in the Chil­dren’s Sto­ry and Colour­ing Book 10.

The Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain re­cent­ly played host to a much deep­er in­sight in­to the im­mense beau­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, as cap­tured through the lens of cul­tur­al doc­u­men­tar­i­an and ex­pert en­gi­neer Richard Ramirez.