In­fer­til­i­ty is far more com­mon in Trinidad and To­ba­go than most peo­ple re­alise, af­fect­ing an es­ti­mat­ed one in six cou­ples. Yet it re­mains one of the coun­try’s most qui­et­ly en­dured chal­lenges. Be­hind closed doors, many nav­i­gate un­cer­tain­ty, mis­in­for­ma­tion and stig­ma with lit­tle sup­port in an at­tempt to grow their fam­i­lies. For the past 20-plus years, The Trinidad and To­ba­go IVF and Fer­til­i­ty Cen­tre (TTIVF) has sup­port­ed count­less fam­i­lies strug­gling with in­fer­til­i­ty by help­ing them con­ceive the pre­cious gift of new life. The cen­tre has achieved sev­er­al ma­jor feats, in­clud­ing the birth of the first IVF ba­by in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean in 1997 and the de­liv­ery of more than 3,000 ba­bies since 2008.

The un­mis­tak­able rhythms of Baithak Gana echoed through the Cen­tre Point Mall Au­di­to­ri­um in Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day night, as Dutch singer Dewinder­s­ingh Sew­nath de­liv­ered a per­for­mance that left pa­trons cheer­ing for more.

Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Ltd re­cent­ly part­nered with Unit­ed Way T&T to trans­form the Ed­in­burgh Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School for their Na­tion­al Day of Car­ing ini­tia­tive.

Glob­al­ly, an es­ti­mat­ed one mil­lion plas­tic bot­tles are pur­chased every minute. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, many of them even­tu­al­ly end up in drains, rivers and land­fills—fu­elling the flood­ing night­mare res­i­dents know all too well dur­ing the rainy sea­son.