De­spite in­clement weath­er, the Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee (CCC) de­liv­ered long-await­ed cash prizes and tro­phies to win­ners of its 2026 Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tions dur­ing a func­tion at the Cou­va/Pt Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce last Wednes­day.

One of the most im­por­tant ques­tions that par­ents should ask their doc­tor is, “If my child has a fever, when should I bring her to see you?”

A sud­den change in an old­er per­son’s think­ing or be­hav­iour is called “delir­i­um”. It is com­mon and the brain is sig­nalling that some­thing has gone wrong with­in the body.

Ther­a­py of any kind can help in­di­vid­u­als cope with chal­lenges and im­prove their phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al and men­tal well-be­ing. Mu­sic, too, can serve as a form of ther­a­py, help­ing chil­dren and adults with so­cial­i­sa­tion chal­lenges, anx­i­ety and even de­men­tia.

Ever since she could re­call, she had a strong pas­sion for the vi­su­al arts—her favourite sub­ject at school. How­ev­er, when she was at Bish­op Anstey High, she was en­cour­aged to ex­plore oth­er paths con­sid­ered more prac­ti­cal. She went on to be­come a lawyer.

Whether she is bring­ing a fairy tale char­ac­ter to life on stage or prepar­ing a school project, 12-year-old Char­l­ize Ra­nia Ra­goonath con­tin­ues to show de­ter­mi­na­tion, tal­ent and dis­ci­pline.

For young mu­si­cians Ar­mani Chi­napoo Sealey and Kaylie Car­di­nal, the steel­pan is much more than a mu­si­cal in­stru­ment; it is a tool for per­son­al growth, a bridge to their com­mu­ni­ty, and a can­vas for the fu­ture. As proud mem­bers of the Gold­en Hands Steel Or­ches­tra, these two stu­dents are dis­cov­er­ing that the dis­ci­pline re­quired to mas­ter the pan trans­lates di­rect­ly to the class­room and be­yond.

When your ve­hi­cle needs a re­pair, your garage will like­ly hand you an es­ti­mate and ask a crit­i­cal ques­tion: “Do you want to use orig­i­nal parts or af­ter­mar­ket parts?” For many ve­hi­cle own­ers, the word “af­ter­mar­ket” car­ries a neg­a­tive stig­ma, in­stant­ly bring­ing to mind “cheap”, in­fe­ri­or knock­offs that will break down in a short pe­ri­od. How­ev­er, un­der­stand­ing the true dif­fer­ence be­tween part clas­si­fi­ca­tions can save you thou­sands of dol­lars with­out ever com­pro­mis­ing your safe­ty.

Nau­sea and vom­it­ing are among the most com­mon symp­toms of ear­ly preg­nan­cy. Of­ten re­ferred to as “morn­ing sick­ness”, preg­nan­cy sick­ness can oc­cur at any time of the day or night and can range from mild nau­sea to re­peat­ed vom­it­ing that in­ter­feres with work, eat­ing and every­day ac­tiv­i­ties.

Fer­ment­ed foods, much like the Boochie Brew kom­bucha pro­duced by Casidy Mo­hamed, of­fer pow­er­ful health perks.

For many new moth­ers, breast­feed­ing is por­trayed as some­thing that should come nat­u­ral­ly, an in­stinc­tive act that moth­er and ba­by sim­ply know how to do. Na­tion­al Breast­feed­ing Week is an an­nu­al ob­ser­vance from Au­gust 1-7 that high­lights the im­por­tance of breast­feed­ing and the wide-rang­ing ben­e­fits it pro­vides for ba­bies, moth­ers and fam­i­lies. It is al­so an op­por­tu­ni­ty to pro­mote greater aware­ness, ed­u­ca­tion and sup­port for moth­ers, while ad­dress­ing the chal­lenges and mis­con­cep­tions that can sur­round breast­feed­ing. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, the week pro­vides an im­por­tant plat­form to en­cour­age in­formed con­ver­sa­tions about breast­feed­ing, strength­en ac­cess to lac­ta­tion sup­port and re­mind moth­ers that they do not have to nav­i­gate their feed­ing jour­ney alone.

Bo­cas Cou­va suc­cess­ful­ly launched the Bo­cas Lit Fest’s 2026 se­ries of com­mu­ni­ty lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al fes­ti­vals on Sat­ur­day, Ju­ly 18, trans­form­ing the Lisas Gar­dens Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre in­to a vi­brant hub of sto­ry­telling, per­for­mance, mu­sic, and com­mu­ni­ty con­nec­tion.