Study: married folks have fewer heart problems
Monday, March 31, 2014Study results reveal that married people had a five per cent lower risk of any cardiovascular disease compared to single people. Widowed people had a three per cent greater risk...
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Youths get special treat at Mayaro career day
Thursday, April 3, 2014Namdevco's booth generated some interest among budding farmers. PHOTOS: ALANA SURAJScores of youths flocked to the Mayaro Indoor Sporting facilities on March 29 when National...
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Students urged to be responsible citizens
Thursday, April 3, 2014A student responds to a question from facilitator Don La Foucade, left, at the Uniquely Worthy workshop at Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre.Zalayhar Hassanali, wife of the...
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Lie back and think of England
Joshua SurteesThursday, April 3, 2014The plane descends through mottled grey rain clouds and lands at Piarco. The doors open but driving rain sweeps across the runway then falls vertically, bouncing...
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Taking discipline to the dogs
Cori BaynesThursday, April 3, 2014Darian Ramesar poses with his doberman Duke at one of the recent Independent Kennel Club training sessions. PHOTO: CORI BAYNES“When God cyah come he does send a man.”...
View ArticleHaloute new head of Syrian Lebanese women
Thursday, April 3, 2014Kimberly Haloute was recently elected as the new president of the Syrian Lebanese Women’s Association of T&T (SLWA).
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Giving hope a home
Thursday, April 3, 2014From left, Tracy Hutchinson Wallace, communications officer, Habitat for Humanity; Cassia Precilla, PR/communications officer, Blue Waters; Natasha Estrada, corporate and...
View ArticleDaily, vigorous exercise helps kids stay fit
Thursday, April 3, 2014After nine months, children in the exercise group had lost an average of close to one per cent of their total body fat.A nine-month, after-school exercise programme helped young...
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Study lays out risk and benefits of mammograms
Friday, April 4, 2014Among women in their 40s and 50s who undergo ten years of annual mammograms, 61 per cent will get at least one false positive mammogram, which would entail additional scans and...
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Perfect Fish
Wendy RahamutSaturday, April 5, 2014Fried fishFish is popular during the Lenten season, but we really should enjoy fish two to three times per week for optimum health. Fish is loaded with good protein,...
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T&T a major player in shark-fin trade
Charles Kong SooSunday, April 6, 2014“If Papa Bois Conservation and T&T could be successful in seriously committing to full and strong protection for sharks in the near future, it could deliver a...
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Stanleyville’s railway artefacts
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, April 6, 2014The Stanleyville box is the last surviving signal post of the former Trinidad Government Railway. A little over a year ago, a motley crew met to comb the...
View ArticleLife-coaching skills for your managers
Janice Learmond CriquiSunday, April 6, 2014Is your company looking to add life-coaching skills to your managers’ skill set?
View ArticleTech etiquette for wedding guests
Simone Sant-GhuranSunday, April 6, 2014Did you know that the average wedding guest shares 22 photos on social media from your wedding? (Source: The Today Show, May 2013).
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Walking good for body and beauty
Monday, April 7, 2014From the outside it might seem like running—which is considered a vigorous intensity exercise—must be better for you than walking, a moderate form of exercise. But the results bore...
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Looking deeper at trauma and gang culture
Aneka LeeMonday, April 7, 2014The New Millennium Knights organisation combines “a love for the sport of motorcycling with a desire to serve their communities.”Catherine Ali didn't want the interview to...
View ArticleExperts decode germs’ DNA to fight food poisoning
Tuesday, April 8, 2014Microbiologist Dr Molly Freeman pulls Listeria bacteria from a tube to be tested for its DNA fingerprinting in a food-borne outbreak lab at the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Meiling tells young fashion entrepreneurs - Brand together for success
Erline AndrewsTuesday, April 8, 2014One of Meiling’s designs. Photo Courtesy: www.cfstyle.comYoung people entering the fashion industry need to find different ways achieve financial success and not...
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Lovelace documentary explores artistic influences - A writer in his place
Aneka LeeTuesday, April 8, 2014Earl Lovelace, left, receives a copy of the documentary of his life, Earl Lovelace—A Writer in His Place from the film’s producer, Dr Funso Aiyejina, Dean of The Faculty...
View Article20 schools compete in WASA’s conservation project
Bobie-lee DixonThursday, April 10, 2014Twenty schools from across T&T will participate in a competition which challenges students to construct and design a model for a system that will enhance water c
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