When chil­dren are stressed, they ru­mi­nate about past prob­lems and wor­ry about fu­ture what-ifs. These neg­a­tive thought pat­terns rob their abil­i­ty to fo­cus on the present. Be­cause stress feeds anx­i­ety, im­pul­sive be­hav­iour and lack of fo­cus, more schools are adopt­ing sim­ple mind­ful­ness tech­niques that par­ents can al­so fos­ter.

The world is cur­rent­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the largest refugee cri­sis since World War II. Many refugees are com­ing from north­ern Africa and the Mid­dle East in­to Eu­rope and the Unit­ed States, with rough­ly 50 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion of Syr­ia seek­ing refuge from war. At home here in Trinidad and To­ba­go the sit­u­a­tion re­flects that of the rest of the world, where there has been an in­crease in the num­ber of asy­lum seek­ers want­i­ng to achieve refugee sta­tus.

The ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed 33rd Bi­en­ni­al T&T Mu­sic Fes­ti­val be­gins Sun­day. Reg­is­tra­tion at four cen­tres—Port-of-Spain, Cen­tral, South and To­ba­go—has fin­ished.

San­to Lyons brought the rub­ber-tipped sticks against his chest with a flash­ing ges­ture of pride. He quick­ly struck his tenor pan with na­tive skill and the mu­si­cal notes sailed out of the makeshift tent-like oiled gems of de­light. Ring­ing sounds, tin­gling the nerves, har­mo­nious melody cours­ing through the air.

There are sev­er­al vari­a­tions of cur­ry fish, how­ev­er, to­day I will share the fried ver­sion. It’s re­quires a lit­tle more work, but to­tal­ly worth the steps to de­vel­op each in­di­vid­ual lay­er of flavour and achieve per­fec­tion.

The day af­ter Car­ni­val is not usu­al­ly a bright morn­ing to wake up to, heavy drinkers are greet­ed with the typ­i­cal hang­over ex­pe­ri­ence like a nasty headache, slug­gish­ness and dizzi­ness. Be­ing hun­gover is def­i­nite­ly not fun for your body or mind. A hang­over is our body’s re­sponse to ex­ces­sive al­co­hol in­take re­sult­ing in high lev­els of de­hy­dra­tion. This list shares the foods and drinks you should be con­sum­ing right now to get back to feel­ing your best.

Ac­cra or cod fish cakes are served as an ap­pe­tiz­er or snack. When made in­to cakes it’s a fill­ing and de­li­cious break­fast. When made in­to round ball, it can be en­joyed as an ap­pe­tiz­er and a great dish to bring to a par­ty or bar­be­cue. Full of flavour in each bite, every­one will be go­ing back for more, so feel free to dou­ble, triple or quadru­ple the recipe.

Treat your­self to this de­light­ful drink that will re­store your body post-Car­ni­val. The in­gre­di­ents in the recipes are loaded with amaz­ing detox­ing prop­er­ties to flush out the al­co­hol and soothe your sore­ness be­cause of boost hy­dra­tion. Try this out this detox wa­ter recipe if you are tired of reg­u­lar wa­ter and have goals like weight loss, ra­di­ate glow­ing skin and speed up your me­tab­o­lism.

The word “yo­ga” comes from San­skrit “Yuj”, which means “union”, a union of the body and mind. Yo­ga is thought to have orig­i­nat­ed in In­dia ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,500 years ago and sev­er­al styles of yo­ga con­tin­ue to be prac­ticed in the world to­day.

Sep­a­ra­tion and di­vorce are dif­fi­cult. Re­gard­less of the length of the re­la­tion­ship or the se­ries of cir­cum­stances which lead to the out­come, when re­la­tion­ships end dif­fi­cul­ties are ex­pe­ri­enced by both par­ties and their chil­dren. While di­vorce is hard on chil­dren of any age, teenagers have ad­di­tion­al chal­lenges. Par­ents who are di­vorc­ing are more like­ly to dis­cuss and of­fload their own feel­ings, crit­i­cisms and anger on their teens (as op­posed to younger chil­dren) who in­vari­ably are com­ing to terms with their own emo­tions. They are sim­ply un­able to ad­di­tion­al­ly man­age those of their par­ent.

"I think that every­body should be able to have the Car­ni­val that they want. That’s what I want for Car­ni­val, for all of us."—El­isha Bar­tels

Ti Jean was a very cun­ning young man. Be­cause of his com­mon sense, he had won a cas­tle and many acres of land from the Dev­il. One day as he was pass­ing near the Dev­il’s cas­tle, he saw the Dev­il’s daugh­ter comb­ing her hair at the win­dow. So beau­ti­ful was the young la­dy that Ti Jean fell in love with her.