Lay­ing down on her bed one night, she be­gan to think about who she is as a per­son, and as a per­son in the steel­pan in­dus­try. This prompt­ed Nao-mi Fred­er­ick to start a so­cial me­dia page.

LSA Health­care Ser­vices (LSAH) brought smiles and school sup­plies to chil­dren in their com­mu­ni­ty of El So­cor­ro. The LSAH Ltd team, led by man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Leela Ram­s­ingh, ini­ti­at­ed a Com­mu­ni­ty Out­reach in sup­port of the youth in the com­mu­ni­ty of Pan­choo Lane and en­vi­rons, Bound­ary Road, El So­cor­ro.

COVID-19 has tried it, but the young peo­ple of T&T are not con­tent­ed to sit by and let hate-mon­gers de­ter­mine this coun­try’s new nor­mal. Fol­low­ing a slew of racial­ly-charged com­ments and bit­ter ex­changes be­tween In­do-Trinida­di­ans and Afro-Trinida­di­ans on so­cial me­dia in the wake of the re­cent­ly-con­clud­ed Gen­er­al Elec­tions, T&T’s youth have pushed back in the hopes of launch­ing a re­gion­al move­ment against racism; ul­ti­mate­ly re­in­forc­ing re­cent in­ter­na­tion­al trends.

The O2N Style 2020—The Cre­ative Con­ver­sa­tion—re­cent­ly cre­at­ed quite an im­pact beam­ing its live vir­tu­al pan­el dis­cus­sion from the Re­gency Ball­room at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad, the Re­view of which res­onat­ed just as im­pres­sive­ly through its air­ing on Na­tion­al tele­vi­sion, last Sun­day.

With fur­ther re­stric­tions im­posed due to Covid-19, al­most all of the events planned by Pan Trin­ba­go Inc to com­mem­o­rate World Steel­band Month had to be can­celled.

CIBC First­Caribbean has launched its First­Caribbean Un­sung Front­line He­roes ini­tia­tive among its 16 ter­ri­to­ries, in­clud­ing T&T. The ini­tia­tive wel­comes nom­i­na­tions from the pub­lic to sug­gest an es­sen­tial work­er or peo­ple from their com­mu­ni­ties who put ser­vice above self dur­ing the COVID-19 cri­sis. Nom­i­na­tions end to­mor­row, on Au­gust 21, and win­ners will be an­nounced in Sep­tem­ber.

You planned to a de­tail for this mir­a­cle you ex­pect to de­liv­er, you over­came the hor­rid ex­pul­sions of first trimester eme­sis (vom­it­ing) and the ba­by room is set and ready to wel­come this new joy­ous ad­di­tion in your life. Just, no one ex­pect­ed a pan­dem­ic and sud­den­ly you are swarmed with words like spikes, high-risk and ven­ti­la­tion; and re­luc­tant­ly sleep­less nights and neck pains be­come a part of your dai­ly ex­is­tence.

The Tide is here. “Here we all are,” says song­writer/vo­cal­ist Tri­cia Lee Kelshall. “Every creed and race, on the same trip, on the same ship, here we recog­nise the pow­er of both our col­lec­tive and in­di­vid­ual fragili­ty…the stuff of your best ter­ri­fy­ing sci­ence fic­tion movie or worst night­mare”

One in four chil­dren has an un­di­ag­nosed vi­sion dis­or­der ac­cord­ing to the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Oph­thal­mol­o­gy (AAO). De­spite the un­set­tling sta­tis­tics, 76 per­cent have not re­ceived a com­pre­hen­sive eye ex­am at the ap­pro­pri­ate time. Re­search from AAO al­so states that “lack of ear­ly in­ter­ven­tion can have de­bil­i­tat­ing con­se­quences”. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has pre­sent­ed fur­ther chal­lenges, de­ter­ring par­ents from pur­su­ing rou­tine screen­ing and nav­i­gat­ing their chil­dren’s dig­i­tal health, as class­rooms have moved to the vir­tu­al en­vi­ron­ment.

An­oth­er Fact: Sham­ing peo­ple who refuse to wear face masks to pre­vent Coro­n­avirus spread is not go­ing to con­vince per­sons of the need for them.

Justin and An­na Camo­ra left their homes as sep­a­rate in­di­vid­u­als in the Philip­pines thou­sands of miles away in search of a bet­ter life when a lo­cal firm went scout­ing for tal­ent.

Shan­ti Ram­samooj, 54, a moth­er of four and grand­moth­er of eight from La Brea Trace, Siparia, can be seen on her daugh­ter's Face­book page bon­jay­ing a large pot of cur­ry crab on a chul­ha she made.