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Put your trust in God to heal our broken land
At first glance, the bloody start to 2015 in this country gives one the feeling that certain elements of the society have gone stark raving mad. And while the authorities are making all sorts of...
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Grab that wedding clutch!
To clutch or not to clutch? That, my girls, is the question! After all, do you really need a handbag on your wedding day? Or will your maid of honour take all and sundry for you (since you’d rather be...
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Voodoo priests, doctors on Haiti’s mental healthcare frontline
Five years after a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and reducing homes to rubble, few survivors would say they were traumatised or suffering depression as a result of...
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Satire’s unsettling, powerful history
“I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason.” (Juvenal)“Impiety: your irreverence towards my deity.” (Ambrose Bierce)“Were I (who to my cost already am/One of those strange...
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Let’s inspire a generation
The incredible demands placed on professional athletes inevitably cases the occupation to become a selfish one. For athletes, days are typically consumed with all types of self improvement. However in...
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T&T must ensure Social inclusion for disabled
T&T’s national policy on people with disabilities should be revised. That’s the opinion of the CEO of the National Centre for Persons with Disabilities, Dr Beverly Beckles. She was commenting about...
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Blood test to help smokers find best way of quitting
A blood test could help people choose a stop-smoking strategy that would give them the best chance of quitting, research in a Lancet journal suggests.Studies show that as many as 60 per cent of people...
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‘Wellness or else’—coming soon to your workplace
US companies are increasingly penalising workers who decline to join “wellness” programmes, embracing an element of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that has raised questions about fairness in...
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Look out for me, T&T!
There’s one word to describe 19-year-old national scholarship winner Esther Pope—inspirational. During a visit to her home in an area formerly known as “Hellyard” in Beetham Gardens, this reporter was...
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When the tongue becomes a weapon of destruction
“Not everything you hear is good for talk,” says the Japanese proverb, but it takes mature contemplation to master that principle. The best of us denies the best in us when we should remain silent...
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Create your sanctuary of peace — Part 1
In order to achieve your goals and set yourself up for success in 2015, you may want to ensure that your physical environment is a motivating one, one that provides a sanctuary from everything else,...
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Trini to get Queen’s award for leadership
Trinidadian Teocah Arieal Anika Dove is among 60 young leaders from across the British Commonwealth to be awarded with The Queen’s Young Leader Award.Dove, 26, who originally lived at Enterprise...
View ArticleBrain scans could help predict behaviour
Forget horoscopes or fortune tellers. There’s a new way to tell your future, and it involves a much more reliable medium: human neuroscience.A new study looks at over 70 scientific publications about...
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Escaping Abuse
What makes a woman plot her escape from almost 30 years of violent domestic abuse? Perhaps the thought of her name prematurely appearing in the obituaries section of the daily newspaper? Gail...
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Seeing with so many colours
I’ve begun a new year with a new pastime: watching my boychild grow, in the same fashion as others watch their gardens grow. I would have thought, as a veteran pappi (because Master Ben bar Levi is my...
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Starting out on the right foot
Many times we’ve heard the saying, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” When it comes to literacy there are no truer words equally applicable to students and tutors. Last week...
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Satire for all
This week, unsurprisingly, I’ve been thinking about the nature of satire and whether a satire which everybody could laugh at would cease to be satirical. Then a friend of mine delivered a short, sharp...
View ArticleUnfair not being able to quiz Bravo, Pollard omission
Of the many responses to the dropping of Bravo and Pollard from the World Cup team the one I take issue most with is that of the TTCB which has “full confidence in the two players” for this format, but...
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Is most younger women’s heart disease preventable?
In a new 20-year study, women who led a healthy lifestyle in their young adult years were 92 per cent less likely than those who didn’t to develop heart disease by middle age.US researchers followed...
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Jay Blessed - ‘I quit blogging on my terms’
For three-and-a-half years, Jamie Alleyne aka Jay Blessed blogged about all things Caribbean. She was the go-to person for the latest on Caribbean entertainment, fashion, and celebrities. But the...
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