Grand­par­ents and their grand­par­ents bond over spe­cial tra­di­tions like shelling peas. Sit­ting in front of your tele­vi­sion, slow­ly sep­a­rat­ing the peas from its out­er cas­ing to earn these de­li­cious peas, packed with pro­tein and used many of lo­cal dish­es. These sought-af­ter veg­eta­bles are most pop­u­lar be­tween De­cem­ber to Feb­ru­ary, avail­able at your mar­ket and high­way pro­duce ven­dors. Take ad­van­tage of the sea­son for pi­geon peas and try out this tra­di­tion­al recipe for stewed pi­geon peas to com­plete your Sun­day lunch of rice, stew chick­en, mac­a­roni pie & fresh sal­ad.

The late Rail­way Dou­glas, Jazzy Pan­tin, Syl Tay­lor and Son­ny Wood­ley must be turn­ing in their graves as ca­lyp­so tents con­tin­ue to be an en­dan­gered specie in the hurly burly ac­tiv­i­ty of car­ni­val. Hav­ing at­tend­ed the open­ing night of a few ca­lyp­so tents these past few days, it is painful­ly ob­vi­ous that the ca­lyp­so tent, at least in its tra­di­tion­al form, is dy­ing and be­com­ing ex­tinct.

Dr Visham Bhimull, Fam­i­ly Physi­cian MBBS (UWI) ex­plains that can­cer is the re­sult of the un­con­trolled di­vi­sion and growth of ab­nor­mal cells. Most of the cells in our body have a set lifes­pan, and when they die, the body gen­er­ates new cells to re­place them.

The ex­am sea­son can be a par­tic­u­lar­ly chal­leng­ing time for stu­dents, so hav­ing the skills to deal eas­i­ly with the re­lat­ed stress is im­por­tant. Mind­ful­ness tech­niques, if prac­ticed by stu­dents, can be eas­i­ly called up­on if they feel over­whelmed.

As most of us would know, Car­ni­val is one of the biggest and more renowned cel­e­bra­tions in our twin is­land re­pub­lic. In ad­di­tion to at­tract­ing pa­trons from all over the world, it is a time when peo­ple let go of their in­hi­bi­tions and let loose.

Car­ni­val 2020 is in full swing and al­though many of us may have vowed to keep up with our ex­er­cise rou­tine last year in or­der to avoid start­ing over in Jan­u­ary, some of us may have been un­suc­cess­ful yet again. It’s okay if you may have fall­en off but just re­mem­ber your rea­son for start­ing and get­ting back on the horse or spin bike.

The UN Women Sum­ma­ry on the Na­tion­al Women’s Health Sur­vey for T&T 2017 sur­vey analy­sis re­veals that in the 15 to 64-year-old age brack­et, more than 100,000 women in T&T have ex­pe­ri­enced one or more acts of phys­i­cal and/or sex­u­al vi­o­lence per­pe­trat­ed by male part­ners; ap­prox­i­mate­ly 11,000 are like­ly to still be in abu­sive re­la­tion­ships.

T&T's Car­ni­val re­mains the gold stan­dard of Car­ni­vals across the Caribbean but much work needs to be done con­cern­ing the events' ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty to tourists.

This spe­cial food is a sta­ple in every Trin­ab­gon­ian kitchen, we put in our pep­per sauce, green sea­son­ing, chokas, talka­ris and cur­ries. Gar­lic is well-known for its pun­gent flavour and is used com­mon­ly in dish­es, adding a lev­el of com­plex­i­ty and depth to our favourite savoury dish­es. To our ben­e­fit, gar­lic has more than a few amaz­ing qual­i­ties that will sur­prise you and will make you want to eat more.

For the choco­holics, this recipe is for you! In­dulge your­self in choco­latey good­ness and savour the deep tones from the dark choco­late with these pan­cakes. The gooey fudge driz­zle takes these pan­cakes to an­oth­er lev­el of flavour pro­files. Try out this recipe if you want to cre­ate pan­cakes that are moist and will def­i­nite­ly sat­is­fy your sweet tooth.

The Cen­tre for Dis­ease Con­trol (CDC) now rec­om­mends 11 to 12 year olds get two dos­es of HPV vac­cine—rather than the pre­vi­ous­ly rec­om­mend­ed three dos­es—to pro­tect against can­cers caused by HPV. The sec­ond dose should be giv­en 6-12 months af­ter the first dose.

Cer­vi­cal can­cer treat­ment op­tions in­clude surgery, ra­dio­ther­a­py, chemother­a­py, or com­bi­na­tions of these.