The Ro­tary Club of Princes Town has award­ed the club’s high­est ho­n­our for yeo­man ser­vice to two out­stand­ing mem­bers of their com­mu­ni­ty.

More than paint­ing pret­ty colours or plac­ing a ran­dom de­sign on can­vas, To­ba­go-born artist Wilcox Mor­ris in­tend­ed to make a state­ment, to ex­press his phi­los­o­phy, and to “pro­voke some thought that one should not be com­pla­cent at any point in life you may be,” he once said.

Un­con­trolled Di­a­betes is dan­ger­ous to your feet, even a small cut can pro­duce se­ri­ous con­se­quences.There is a lot to man­age if you have di­a­betes: check­ing your blood sug­ar, mak­ing healthy food, find­ing time to be ac­tive, tak­ing med­i­cines, go­ing to doc­tor ap­point­ments. With all that, your feet might be the last thing on your mind. All di­a­bet­ics are at risk of in­creased in­fec­tion in the pe­riph­eries and se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tions, such as am­pu­ta­tion.

You know your heart needs lots of TLC. Your feet do too. Af­ter all, they are the work­hors­es of your body, tak­ing about 5,000 steps a day. That’s 2.5 miles!

The T&T Po­lice Band, led by Act­ing Di­rec­tor, Supt. (Ag) Wayne Nim­blette, re­cent­ly pre­miered a cov­er ver­sion of the USA for Africa clas­sic, We Are the World. The mu­sic video, re­leased on Ju­ly 11, con­tains a pow­er­ful mes­sage about love for self and oth­ers and car­ing about life by ad­her­ing to the COVID-19 pro­to­cols.

Adri­an­na Suraj, 18, topped the re­gion in Agri­cul­tur­al Sci­ence in the 2020 CSEC ex­ams. The Rio Claro West Sec­ondary stu­dent said study­ing dur­ing the pan­dem­ic was chal­leng­ing and she wants to share the strate­gies she used to re­main fo­cused.

The Ro­tary Club of Princes Town re­cent­ly dis­trib­uted 30 de­vices to three sec­ondary schools. Par­ents of stu­dents from St Stephen’s Col­lege, Princes Town West Sec­ondary School, and Cowen Hamil­ton Sec­ondary School re­ceived Leno­vo de­vices to­geth­er val­ued at $33,000.

The main event on the cul­tur­al cal­en­dar at this time of year, the To­ba­go Her­itage Fes­ti­val, would nor­mal­ly gen­er­ate a lot of in­ter­est and ac­tiv­i­ties in com­mu­ni­ties across the is­land.

Makem­ba Kun­le’s “The Gath­er­ing Storm” will be held from Au­gust 7 to Au­gust 21. The ex­hi­bi­tion will be held at Arn­im’s Gallery, 27 Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain.

Der­ron Watkins is the lat­est T&T na­tion­al to be award­ed an Eras­mus Mundus Joint Mas­ter’s De­gree (EMJMD) schol­ar­ship.

Our Caribbean aes­thet­ic has be­come the go-to in­spi­ra­tion, the ref­er­ence tem­plate, the New World style, the van­guard de­sign think­ing and the cut­ting-edge fron­tier-peo­ple flair. It’s in our DNA, this ex­hi­bi­tion­is­tic, je ne sais quoi know-it-all avant-garde sen­si­bil­i­ty.

Sagi­cor recog­nised the spe­cial con­tri­bu­tion of sin­gle fa­thers last Fa­ther’s Day with videos on their so­cial me­dia plat­forms and to­kens for five lucky men.