“Most of the world’s 3.4 bil­lion work­ers are un­well,” as stat­ed in the Glob­al Well­ness In­sti­tute (GWI) re­search re­port on The Fu­ture of Well­ness at Work, five years ago. To­day, 2021, dur­ing the un­prece­dent­ed pan­dem­ic of COVID-19, where our world is chang­ing at an in­com­pa­ra­ble pace, there is a ris­ing epi­dem­ic of the un­well, stressed work­force where anx­i­ety, burnout, em­ploy­ee dis­en­gage­ment and eco­nom­ic in­se­cu­ri­ty plagues our glob­al pop­u­la­tion.

In the ear­ly morn­ing, a nurse walks quick­ly, head bent, head­ing to the hos­pi­tal. In the dis­tance, the creak­ing of a garbage col­lec­tion truck an­nounces its ar­rival. San­i­ta­tion work­ers fling bags of rub­bish in­to the cav­ernous open­ing. The mech­a­nism clos­es, swal­low­ing all ev­i­dence of hu­man waste. In the su­per­mar­ket, work­ers pack bags of gro­ceries for those who pre­fer not to ven­ture in­to the world of the virus.

Writ­ing about 19th cen­tu­ry Port-of-Spain, the his­to­ri­an Suzanne Good­e­nough quotes the words of colo­nial town plan­ners from 1871 de­scrib­ing the ex­pan­sion of Port-of-Spain and the first glimpses of hous­ing on Wood­brook Es­tate.

To mark Glob­al En­tre­pre­neur­ship Week (GEW) 2021, an in­ter­na­tion­al ini­tia­tive where young peo­ple in six con­ti­nents gain ex­po­sure to new and in­no­v­a­tive busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ties, the Sun­day Guardian high­lights in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed Me­dia Mar­ket­ing Spe­cial­ist, CEO and founder of Car­li Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Car­la Williams-John­son.

For over 10 years—be­tween 1987 and 1998—Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus Ken­neth Ram­c­hand’s T&T Guardian col­umn, ‘Mat­ters Aris­ing’, was re­quired read­ing for any­one with an in­ter­est in na­tion­al and glob­al pub­lic af­fairs, lit­er­a­ture, scholas­tic dis­course and clever ole-talk and hu­mour.

First Cit­i­zens is set to cel­e­brate its mar­quee Women’s Con­fer­ence on No­vem­ber 14, well renowned for its sus­tained pres­ence and im­pact­ful con­tent.

As more Form 4-6 stu­dents re­turned to school, the de­bate around vac­ci­na­tion in­ten­si­fied. Al­though vac­cines have helped us to safe­ly con­trol dis­eases such as measles and yel­low fever, vac­ci­na­tion of chil­dren and young peo­ple now ap­pears to be a di­vi­sive sub­ject.

Di­vali is an in­cred­i­bly spe­cial day for mil­lions liv­ing all over the world. No Di­vali cel­e­bra­tion is com­plete with­out the plate­fuls of barfi, ladoo, sweet rice etcetera. These desserts made dur­ing Di­vali are so rich and tasty that it is just im­pos­si­ble to re­sist while every­one in your fam­i­ly in­dulges. It is that time of the year when your di­et plan and ex­er­cise sched­ule are chucked aside. But then days af­ter, the guilt sets in.

Delvin Gool­jar, the Good Samar­i­tan who has put his life on hold to ful­fil his child­hood dream, now stands com­mit­ted to tak­ing care of dogs aban­doned and left to suf­fer on the road­sides.

Patrice and Ger­ard Flan­ders, cre­ators of the pop­u­lar board game Tri­ni Quest, re­cent­ly pre­sent­ed a copy to for­mer Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch Black Stal­in (Leroy Cal­liste) one of lo­cal icons fea­tured in the game.

This Thurs­day, Hin­dus across T&T will ob­serve Di­vali–the cel­e­bra­tion of good over evil, light over dark­ness. On this lo­cal na­tion­al hol­i­day when Moth­er Lak­sh­mi is be­lieved to roam the Earth, be­stow­ing bless­ings of wealth and hap­pi­ness, many will pre­pare sump­tu­ous East In­di­an favourites, wear new clothes and adorn their homes and streets with beau­ti­ful dec­o­ra­tions, in­clud­ing thou­sands of eye-catch­ing deyas.

The el­dest of sev­en chil­dren and a moth­er of one, Hal­cian Pierre, grew up with her grand­moth­er in St James af­ter her moth­er mi­grat­ed to the Unit­ed States, in search of a bet­ter life.