For many of us, be­com­ing ill with any virus might put us on the couch for a day or two. It can be drain­ing, but af­ter re­cov­er­ing we can gen­er­al­ly get back to the things we’re used to. But for some peo­ple, con­tract­ing a vi­ral in­fec­tion can be life-al­ter­ing. It can cause months, years or even a life­time of de­bil­i­tat­ing symp­toms that dras­ti­cal­ly re­duce one’s qual­i­ty of life.

If the pan­dem­ic has taught us any­thing, it’s the im­por­tance of so­cial ties and hu­man con­nec­tions. Not on­ly do they im­prove your emo­tion­al well-be­ing, but they can bring phys­i­cal ben­e­fits. How­ev­er, while pos­i­tive re­la­tion­ships can boost health, the op­po­site is of­ten true when it comes to prob­lem­at­ic re­la­tion­ships. Chron­ic emo­tion­al stress may put you at high­er risk for a num­ber of health prob­lems and of ma­jor con­cern, af­fect­ing YOUR HEART.

He is best known as the leader of the pop­u­lar cul­tur­al group KaisoKah Moko Jumbies but these days with en­ter­tain­ment at a stand­still Ju­nior Bis­nath is putting his cre­ativ­i­ty to a dif­fer­ent use.

There is an ur­gent need to in­vig­o­rate vac­cine con­fi­dence, the world over, in re­sponse to the COVID-9 pan­dem­ic and here in the Caribbean, we need to up the ante in terms of push­ing the agen­da for the sake of our own sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment. The Glob­al Busi­ness Lead­er­ship Fo­rum, led by Nigel Sali­na, has tak­en up the man­tle to spear­head a cam­paign of vac­cine pri­ori­ti­sa­tion and sen­si­ti­sa­tion of its ben­e­fits.

The 2021 First Cit­i­zens Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam au­di­tion round is to­tal­ly vir­tu­al. The Zoom plat­form has be­come the new au­di­tion stage for po­ets across the coun­try en­ter­ing the largest spo­ken word chal­lenge in the Caribbean.

In cel­e­bra­tion of 100 years of Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al on Ju­ly 17, ladies of Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al New­town plant­ed a Dou­ble Cha­co­nia tree on the grounds of the Ma­ter­ni­ty Ward at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

When life gives you lemons, make lemon zest for your ponche de crème! At least, that is what some peo­ple in T&T are do­ing to­day as they cel­e­brate “Christ­mas in Ju­ly”. Based on so­cial me­dia com­ments, this year, many peo­ple have been mak­ing the most of the mid-year ob­ser­vance, wel­com­ing it as a much-need­ed re­prieve from 16 months of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

MI­A­MI, FLori­da–Is­land Sea Fest has an­nounced a part­ner­ship with lead­ing cruise line, Roy­al Caribbean In­ter­na­tion­al, for an 11 night cruise that fea­tures a five night stop at Trinidad’s fa­mous Car­ni­val in Feb­ru­ary 2023.

T&T’s largest-ever con­tin­gent at a mul­ti-sport event is set to make his­to­ry at the Sum­mer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, start­ing to­day.

The Fash­ion Com­pa­ny of T&T (Fash­ionTT) has led a dy­nam­ic ini­tia­tive through the Val­ue Chain In­vest­ment Pro­gramme (VCIP) which serves as one of the core projects of the Strate­gic Plan for the lo­cal fash­ion in­dus­try and kicks off its Glob­al Val­ue Chain (GVC) thrust with an im­mer­sive mer­chan­dis­ing cam­paign po­si­tion­ing its eleven front­line de­sign­ers, ready­ing them to take on the world as ex­port-wor­thy, in­no­v­a­tive and com­pet­i­tive brand am­bas­sadors of our Caribbean aes­thet­ic.

When the cy­cling events take place at the Tokyo Olympics, the com­mu­ni­ty of Gas­par­il­lo cheer­ing on their home­town hero Nicholas Paul.

Our Trail­blaz­er se­ries cel­e­brates the stu­dents who in Al­ta’s first decade braved the stig­ma of low lit­er­a­cy to speak pub­licly of their Al­ta ex­pe­ri­ence.