On Sun­day the Moods Pan Groove of Brook­lyn New York, man­aged by Clyde Du­rant, will be host­ing its first post-lock­down of­fline event, Pan­Jazz, from 6-10 pm, at The Palace, 713, Norstrand Av­enue, Cor­ner of Ster­ling Place, Brook­lyn, NY 11216.

How we ad­just our lives while liv­ing with the COVID 19 pan­dem­ic is the fo­cus of a vir­tu­al show by the Al­pha Dance Pro­duc­tion set for Au­gust 8. Chore­o­graphed by the dance troupe’s artis­tic di­rec­tor Bev­er­ley-Ann Ot­t­ley, Re­set puts the spot­light on the to­tal per­son hav­ing to ad­just the mind, emo­tions, bod­ies, and phys­i­cal spaces.

Ac­cord­ing to da­ta from the Na­tion­al In­sti­tutes of Health, men seem to be af­fect­ed more se­vere­ly by COVID-19 than women. Oth­er stud­ies from ear­ly re­search sug­gest men are al­so dy­ing at a high­er rate from COVID-19 than women.

Con­grat­u­la­tions are in or­der for the win­ning teams of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion’s Girls Pow­er Tech 2021. Of the ten com­pet­ing teams, three emerged vic­to­ri­ous at the end of the Hackathon on day two.

Ac­claimed jazz mu­si­cian Eti­enne Charles cel­e­brat­ed his 38th birth­day last Sat­ur­day with a con­cert at the As­pen Art Mu­se­um’s jas­café, As­pen, Col­orado, un­der the aus­pices of Jazz As­pen Snow­mass Com­pa­ny (JAS).

For many of us, be­com­ing ill with any virus might put us on the couch for a day or two. It can be drain­ing, but af­ter re­cov­er­ing we can gen­er­al­ly get back to the things we’re used to. But for some peo­ple, con­tract­ing a vi­ral in­fec­tion can be life-al­ter­ing. It can cause months, years or even a life­time of de­bil­i­tat­ing symp­toms that dras­ti­cal­ly re­duce one’s qual­i­ty of life.

If the pan­dem­ic has taught us any­thing, it’s the im­por­tance of so­cial ties and hu­man con­nec­tions. Not on­ly do they im­prove your emo­tion­al well-be­ing, but they can bring phys­i­cal ben­e­fits. How­ev­er, while pos­i­tive re­la­tion­ships can boost health, the op­po­site is of­ten true when it comes to prob­lem­at­ic re­la­tion­ships. Chron­ic emo­tion­al stress may put you at high­er risk for a num­ber of health prob­lems and of ma­jor con­cern, af­fect­ing YOUR HEART.

“I'm all about Risk Man­age­ment. It’s how I live my life! It's how I was trained and it's my ex­per­tise as a Chem­i­cal and Process En­gi­neer. Risk Man­age­ment is about con­sid­er­ing the sever­i­ty of an in­ci­dent hap­pen­ing com­bined with the like­li­hood of that event oc­cur­ring. So al­though you can die in a plane crash, the like­li­hood of that hap­pen­ing is pret­ty low so if you won an all-ex­pense paid trip to Dubai most of us wouldn’t think twice about hop­ping on the flight!

He is best known as the leader of the pop­u­lar cul­tur­al group KaisoKah Moko Jumbies but these days with en­ter­tain­ment at a stand­still Ju­nior Bis­nath is putting his cre­ativ­i­ty to a dif­fer­ent use.

There is an ur­gent need to in­vig­o­rate vac­cine con­fi­dence, the world over, in re­sponse to the COVID-9 pan­dem­ic and here in the Caribbean, we need to up the ante in terms of push­ing the agen­da for the sake of our own sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment. The Glob­al Busi­ness Lead­er­ship Fo­rum, led by Nigel Sali­na, has tak­en up the man­tle to spear­head a cam­paign of vac­cine pri­ori­ti­sa­tion and sen­si­ti­sa­tion of its ben­e­fits.

The 2021 First Cit­i­zens Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam au­di­tion round is to­tal­ly vir­tu­al. The Zoom plat­form has be­come the new au­di­tion stage for po­ets across the coun­try en­ter­ing the largest spo­ken word chal­lenge in the Caribbean.

In cel­e­bra­tion of 100 years of Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al on Ju­ly 17, ladies of Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al New­town plant­ed a Dou­ble Cha­co­nia tree on the grounds of the Ma­ter­ni­ty Ward at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.