Na­tion­al 4-H Coun­cil pres­i­dent Natasha Lee has en­cour­aged young peo­ple to em­brace agri­cul­ture, food se­cu­ri­ty and sus­tain­able prac­tices as the or­gan­i­sa­tion con­tin­ues to pro­mote school and com­mu­ni­ty gar­den­ing.

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Mar­i­ano Browne be­lieves Trinidad and To­ba­go has lost op­por­tu­ni­ties to strength­en trade with Venezuela and must now fo­cus on for­mal­is­ing com­mer­cial ac­tiv­i­ty be­tween the two coun­tries.

With its lead now trimmed to two points due to a dis­ci­pli­nary rul­ing in favour of Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary, leader St Mary’s Col­lege will face a stern test to hold on to top spot in the 17-team Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Boys Pre­mier Di­vi­sion when it hosts St Bene­dict’s Col­lege at Ser­pen­tine Road in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

South­ern Trinidad’s for­got­ten his­to­ry is be­ing brought to light through ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search that is un­cov­er­ing ev­i­dence of the lives of In­dige­nous peo­ple, in­den­tured labour­ers and the com­mu­ni­ties they built, while train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lo­cal re­searchers to pre­serve the coun­try’s her­itage.

Now ap­proach­ing the end of Pink Oc­to­ber, when the breast can­cer mes­sage is clear­ly in the spot­light, the ques­tion re­mains whether this an­nu­al surge tru­ly im­proves women’s re­pro­duc­tive-health aware­ness and out­comes.