There ex­ist two sides of the coin in ref­er­enc­ing our Caribbean style. There is a lux­u­ry lifestyle as­pi­ra­tional fash­ion a la Clau­dia Pe­gus and then there is an or­gan­ic, bo­hemi­an tex­ture, the aes­thet­ic of The Cloth. Both were re­cent­ly fea­tured as brand am­bas­sadors at the Mon­tano’s Choco­late Com­pa­ny cock­tail at the Hilton. In a word, our fash­ion lan­guage can be bilin­gual. So much so, that the soul of our fash­ion sen­si­bil­i­ty does pos­sess the com­ple­men­tary yin and yang, both el­e­ments be­ing part of the fas­ci­nat­ing is­land hy­brid that is our Caribbean trade­mark.

The brain has its own su­per pow­er. In some peo­ple it han­dles that pow­er dif­fer­ent­ly; be­comes over­whelmed and shares the pow­er with oth­er parts of the body in­to jerk­ing- some peo­ple call these seizures, if its re­cur­rent enough, you’ll get the tag called Epilep­sy.

Sama­ra Leza­ma is a 25-year-old chef who grew up with her five sib­lings and par­ents in the com­mu­ni­ty of D’Abadie. Fol­low­ing her sec­ondary school years at St Joseph’s Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, Sama­ra set foot in Pe­ru to do mis­sion­ary work, which al­so al­lowed her to be­come flu­ent in Span­ish. Af­ter Pe­ru, she de­cid­ed it was time to pur­sue her dream of be­com­ing a chef.

In my last ar­ti­cle, I left off on time man­age­ment and this next top­ic has that as its foun­da­tion. As Trin­bag­o­ni­ans, there is an un­der­ly­ing cul­ture of pro­cras­ti­na­tion for some which tends to seep in­to all as­pects of life. It is more ap­par­ent with some peo­ple than oth­ers. How­ev­er, plan­ning ahead is quite the op­po­site and more of­ten than not, re­sults in more good than harm. So what does plan­ning ahead have to do with be­ing hangry? Let’s start by defin­ing ‘hangry’ so we’re all on the same page.

Many women are feel­ing the pres­sure to have it all to­geth­er. This can mean dif­fer­ent de­sires for in­di­vid­ual women and every­one’s list may look dif­fer­ent. How­ev­er, most women want to ex­cel in every as­pect of their life and chase suc­cess.

With over six mil­lion Botox in­jec­tions ad­min­is­tered each year, it is in fact one of the most pop­u­lar cos­met­ic treat­ments be­cause the re­sults are ex­cel­lent, the down­time is min­i­mal and, when done cor­rect­ly, the side ef­fects are near­ly non-ex­is­tent. When you first hear the word Botox, you may think of it as an im­me­di­ate so­lu­tion to fine lines and wrin­kles. How­ev­er, due to its pop­u­lar­i­ty and ex­ces­sive use in Hol­ly­wood, many peo­ple al­so think of the neg­a­tive con­no­ta­tions that are as­so­ci­at­ed with Botox. In fact, many have tried the Botox treat­ment but to the naked eye it isn’t as ob­vi­ous that such per­sons have got­ten the in­jec­tions.

The blame game is in­sane ! How many times have we heard con­stant com­plaints on what women need to do in or­der for a man to stay faith­ful ? Delve in­to what caused this way of think­ing and why it should stop.

Born in San Fer­nan­do, 30-year-old Ka­reena Far­fan is a Type 1 Di­a­bet­ic (ju­ve­nile di­a­betes). She had this type of di­a­betes since the age of six - that’s the ma­jor­i­ty of her life. In spite of this, Ka­reen lives a full life as a lover of fash­ion, make­up and meet­ing new peo­ple.

We know that all liv­ing things need wa­ter to sur­vive. Wa­ter makes up more than half of our body weight and with­out it our bod­ies would stop work­ing prop­er­ly. While many chil­dren do drink wa­ter, par­ents some­times al­so of­fer their chil­dren milk or fruit juices think­ing they need the cal­ci­um or ex­tra vi­t­a­mins. And many chil­dren al­so in­dulge in sug­ar-sweet­ened drinks such as juice drinks, soft drinks and flavoured milks. Here’s why wa­ter is still the best choice to sat­is­fy your child’s thirst.

No­vem­ber has been de­clared as Di­a­bet­ic Eye Dis­ease Aware­ness Month and aims to bring aware­ness and to ed­u­cate the pub­lic on the ef­fects of di­a­betes on vi­sion, risk fac­tors and treat­ment op­tions. If you have di­a­betes, pre­ven­tion of eye dis­eases re­lat­ed to di­a­betes is a pri­or­i­ty as these can cause you to have trou­ble read­ing, see­ing faces across the room, see­ing at night, or even blind­ness.

Known as the silent cri­sis, de­pres­sion af­fects mil­lions of men world­wide. While re­search has shown that the num­ber of men with a men­tal health is­sue is grow­ing at an as­ton­ish­ing rate. When it comes to their health, most men think of their phys­i­cal health…like en­dur­ing a prostate ex­am. Men may be re­luc­tant to seek sup­port for their men­tal health or dis­close men­tal health prob­lems to loved ones. 

Sweat is just fat cry­ing! Sounds great right? Gives the idea that the more you sweat, the more weight you can lose right? Well I re­al­ly don’t like to be the bear­er of not so good news but I have to be hon­est with you guys, this state­ment is not re­al­ly based on truth and serves as more of a men­tal / mo­ti­va­tion­al pitch, so let me try to break it down to you as best as I can.