‘The view of the world through a fe­male lens, par­tic­u­lar­ly in po­si­tions of in­flu­ence, is cer­tain­ly some­thing that can rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way we do things: from the de­ci­sions that are made, the way peo­ple are en­gaged to ef­fect change and the way we go about our dai­ly lives,” shares Dr. Maris­sa Gowrie.

In­ter­na­tion­al Women in En­gi­neer­ing Day is cel­e­brat­ed on June 23 every year, across the globe to raise aware­ness about the women pur­su­ing en­gi­neer­ing and trans­form­ing the world with their in­cred­i­ble achieve­ments. For cen­turies, women have played an es­sen­tial role as de­sign­ers and builders of crit­i­cal struc­tures and ma­chines even be­fore the term ‘en­gi­neer’ was coined in the 11th cen­tu­ry. How­ev­er, fields, such as en­gi­neer­ing, have been large­ly kept shut from women.

Known in cre­ative cir­cles as the ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of non-prof­it arts, so­cial change and cul­tur­al ex­change or­gan­i­sa­tion, CFAFF/For Com­mon Good and founder of East Trinidad’s pop­u­lar cul­tur­al space and so­cial en­ter­prise, East Yard—where he car­ries out his cu­ra­to­r­i­al prac­tice—Kevon Gareth Foder­ing­ham is al­so a per­son­al brand vi­sion­ing coach for cre­ative en­tre­pre­neurs and vi­su­al artists with a so­cial­ly en­gaged art and coach­ing prac­tice, dubbed The I AM Ex­per­i­ment; the de­sign­er of an ap­par­el and ac­ces­sories line; and now, a first time au­thor.

The Yoru­ba Vil­lage Drum Fes­ti­val held by the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee on June 18 on Pic­cadil­ly Street Port-of-Spain in ho­n­our of the Yoru­ba peo­ple who were brought main­ly from Nige­ria, Ghana, To­go and Benin.

SAN JUAN, Puer­to Ri­co (AP) — A moth­er and her four chil­dren have been killed in Ja­maica, po­lice said Tues­day.

Many of us sit be­hind our desks and stare at com­put­er screens for far too much of the day. Al­though con­cen­trat­ed work can be ben­e­fi­cial to our jobs, it can be tax­ing on our bod­ies. The fol­low­ing yo­ga ex­er­cis­es will help you re­lieve any ten­sion you might feel af­ter too many hours of por­ing over spread­sheets. The pos­es al­so pro­vide long-term ben­e­fits with reg­u­lar prac­tice. Each pose takes few­er than two min­utes to com­plete, and you can do the whole se­ries in just 10 min­utes, but you’ll feel the ef­fects long af­ter.

Two board mem­bers of the Trinidad & To­ba­go Au­to­mo­bile As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAA), Sel­wyn Richard Per­sad and Daryl Geawan were both nom­i­nat­ed and spe­cial­ly se­lect­ed as two out of 30 at­ten­dees from 17 clubs world­wide to take part in the 11th edi­tion of the Fédéra­tion In­ter­na­tionale de l’Au­to­mo­bile-FIA Uni­ver­si­ty Emerg­ing Lead­ers Pro­gramme 2022.

In to­day’s 24/7 world with dis­tress­ing news bom­bard­ing us, elec­tron­ic de­vices de­mand­ing our at­ten­tion, and an in­box full of emails that seem to need an im­me­di­ate re­ply, it’s no won­der stress lev­els are at an all-time high. In fact, re­search shows 90% of all doc­tor vis­its are linked to stress-re­lat­ed prob­lems.

Sex­ol­o­gist and sex ther­a­pist Dr Giri­raj Ram­nanan, called Dr “Raj” by most, is set to open a mu­se­um on the his­to­ry of sex on June 23, and he is hop­ing to have at least 5,000 vis­i­tors be­tween then and the end of the year. En­ti­tled the Tri­ni Erot­ic Mu­se­um, the gallery will cater strict­ly to peo­ple 18 years and over.

Cel­e­brat­ed an­nu­al­ly, Men­tal Health week is al­ways sched­uled to end on Fa­ther’s Day in the USA, a day was cho­sen as the an­chor to make use of the ex­tra at­ten­tion paid to male fam­i­ly mem­bers near that hol­i­day.

Veron­i­ca Ra­jahram, just 20, has burst up­on the lit­er­ary fo­rum with an im­pres­sive Young Adult (YA) nov­el—Just A Lit­tle Longer. This re­mark­able break­out la­dy hails from Bas­ta Hall vil­lage in Cou­va. One of the vin­tage-best writ­ers of our na­tion al­so had his nur­tur­ing in Bas­ta Hall, he is Willi Chen. Maybe, folk­lore will al­low light­ning to strike twice in the same place! And Bas­ta Hall could be­come a “go-to place” for our dilet­tante lit­er­ary posers.

Fa­ther’s Day is here and amidst the hus­tle and bus­tle, you may not have ‘gift­ed up’ and won­der­ing, “How can I make my dad feel spe­cial?”