A com­mu­ni­ty green­house adds to food sus­tain­abil­i­ty with­in the com­mu­ni­ty. Last Mon­day, the com­mis­sion­ing of the RBC-spon­sored green­house in the vil­lage of Bethel took place.

With all pro­ceeds to ben­e­fit women and girls with the nec­es­sary fem­i­nine san­i­tary prod­ucts they de­serve, come May 28, World Men­stru­al Hy­giene Day from 2-6 pm at the An­chor­age wa­ter­front, lo­cat­ed in Ch­aguara­mas at the north­west penin­su­la of Trinidad, Help­ing Her Foun­da­tion (HHF) will host its third an­nu­al tea par­ty and fash­ion show fundrais­er.

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices host­ed its first ever So­cial Work­er of the Year Awards cer­e­mo­ny on May 11, at the Hy­att Re­gency, in Port-of-Spain, to ac­knowl­edge and cel­e­brate the achieve­ments of so­cial work­ers at­tached to the min­istry.

Sylvia Hunt. A house­hold name for many Trinida­di­ans above the age of 50, but, un­for­tu­nate­ly, not so well known among the younger gen­er­a­tions. A daugh­ter of the soil, a mas­ter­ful chef, and a stew­ard of Trin­bag­on­ian cul­ture, Sylvia Hunt har­nessed and dis­played our her­itage in all of her works, name­ly her meals, TV show, and books. Many peo­ple un­fa­mil­iar with her work might be scep­ti­cal about pay­ing trib­ute to Hunt’s lega­cy; how­ev­er, in do­ing so, they min­imise the cen­tral­i­ty of food in Caribbean cul­ture. Hunt used food as a means of cel­e­brat­ing our rich, mul­ti­cul­tur­al her­itage in T&T and as a tool of re­sis­tance against the colo­nial lega­cy that has crept in­to so many as­pects of our cul­ture.

Fol­low­ing a night filled with tal­ent de­spite many dis­rup­tions, the Point Fortin Bor­ough Queen Show crowned a win­ner.

The Di­vi­sion of Set­tle­ments, Pub­lic Util­i­ties and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) hand­ed over the first unit of the home own­er­ship made equal (HOME) pro­gramme, part of the di­vi­sion’s so­cial hous­ing ini­tia­tive, at Teak Av­enue, Mil­ford Court, To­ba­go last week.

Vice-Chan­cel­lor of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) Pro­fes­sor Sir Hi­lary Beck­les says the uni­ver­si­ty has proven to be re­silient and rel­e­vant over its 75 years of ser­vice to the Caribbean.

Thun­der­storms in April? Shocked by the re­sul­tant flood­ing that af­fects the lives and liveli­hoods of com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad? Many peo­ple have been caught off guard by these un­prece­dent­ed weath­er pat­terns, but should we re­al­ly be shocked? “No”, ac­cord­ing to Ne­sha Abi­raj, we shouldn’t be, as “the in­tense im­pact of the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty’s abuse of the cli­mate has caused these weath­er pat­terns,” such as ex­treme rain­fall and flood­ing. (Slight edit­ing)

In a so­ci­ety such as ours, the weight of par­ent­hood falls heav­i­ly on the shoul­ders of the moth­er. The moth­er is ex­pect­ed to car­ry the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of tak­ing care of the new­born, and of­ten has to take care of the house­hold, oth­er chil­dren and her­self, by her­self.

As you read this to­day, Michelle Have­lock may have al­ready made her de­but pre­sen­ta­tion as the first Caribbean woman at a glob­al lead­er­ship con­fer­ence in Las Ve­gas. The event–Lead­ers and Man­agers Pro­gram (LAMP) 2023 is the pre­mier lead­er­ship event for the fi­nan­cial se­cu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion start­ing to­day and ex­tend­ing over three days.

Nel­son Man­dela said, “His­to­ry will judge us by the dif­fer­ence we make in the every­day lives of chil­dren, for they are the foun­da­tion for a bet­ter na­tion and world.”

Ajay Aakash Balkissoon’s love of agri­cul­ture goes back sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions to his great-grand­fa­ther’s time when he plant­ed sug­ar cane, rice, cof­fee, co­coa, and cashew nuts as well as main­tained a kitchen gar­den.