From a hos­pi­tal the­atre at the Sev­enth Day Ad­ven­tist Com­mu­ni­ty Hos­pi­tal in Co­corite to dis­as­ter zones across the globe, Dr Reynold Agard speaks with the ur­gency of a man who has seen both cri­sis and re­cov­ery up close.

When Dionne Ovid be­came a nurse 16 years ago, it was just as a way of se­cur­ing per­ma­nent em­ploy­ment.

Hy­per­ten­sion does not usu­al­ly an­nounce it­self dra­mat­i­cal­ly. There is of­ten no warn­ing siren, no dra­mat­ic col­lapse, no sharp pain de­mand­ing ur­gent at­ten­tion. In­stead, it works qui­et­ly in the back­ground, slow­ly dam­ag­ing blood ves­sels, the heart, kid­neys, brain and eyes.

The trou­ble be­gins at the break­fast buf­fet. A dizzy­ing ar­ray of food, that can be­come avail­able to the ho­tel guest as ear­ly as 6.30 am. This is where we sep­a­rate the ac­tive guest from the con­fer­ence guest. The con­fer­ence guest goes from ho­tel room, to break­fast, to 9 am con­fer­ence to mid-morn­ing tea and bis­cuits, to lunch, to post-lunch re­sump­tion in the con­fer­ence room, to mid af­ter­noon tea and bis­cuits to din­ner.

Ac­tor, mod­el, Mr Grand Trinidad and To­ba­go 2021, and Tik­Tok, Threads and Face­book con­tent cre­ator, Su­veer Ram­sook, has de­scribed his re­cent vis­it to this coun­try’s her­itage site, Nel­son Is­land, as a deeply per­son­al, full-cir­cle ex­pe­ri­ence that strength­ened his con­nec­tion to his an­ces­try.

From sand­board­ing down the side of a dor­mant Nicaraguan vol­cano to tak­ing self­ies with seals in Pe­ru, Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al An­dros Bel­fonte has lived a life that many on­ly dream of.

On any giv­en day, you might find Shelly-Ann Aqui Solomon at home rock­ing her grand­son to sleep on her lap. That is ex­act­ly how our in­ter­view be­gan. It re­flects her life as a moth­er and grand­moth­er, one where her ca­reer is built around her fam­i­ly, rather than squeez­ing them in­to the mar­gins of a work­space. An award-win­ning busi­ness strate­gist, speak­er, and men­tor with over 27 years of ex­pe­ri­ence, her mis­sion is to give oth­ers - par­tic­u­lar­ly women - that same sense of free­dom.

With over 360,000 views and count­ing, Lisa Fos­ter’s ren­di­tion of the gospel song God Will Work It Out has be­come an on­line hit. Her mes­meris­ing voice is the un­de­ni­able star of the show; so much so that view­ers al­most for­get she is stand­ing on crutch­es. Cap­tured dur­ing a ser­vice at the D’Abadie Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist Church on May 2, the footage has gar­nered more than 1,300 re­ac­tions and 1,400 com­ments since hit­ting Face­book the fol­low­ing day.

Have you ever no­ticed how some cars look bril­liant­ly glossy for years, while oth­ers quick­ly de­vel­op a dull, peel­ing, or fad­ed ap­pear­ance? When it comes to restor­ing your ve­hi­cle af­ter an ac­ci­dent or sim­ply giv­ing it a fresh new look to re­flect your style, the qual­i­ty of the paint used is just as im­por­tant as the skill of the painter. As a ve­hi­cle own­er, un­der­stand­ing ex­act­ly what goes on­to your car’s ex­te­ri­or em­pow­ers you to pro­tect your in­vest­ment and main­tain its re­sale val­ue.

June Am­ing re­mem­bers Sat­ur­day morn­ings at the cor­ner shop with her moth­er and sis­ters. Each child could choose a choco­late bar and a book. Her sis­ters usu­al­ly picked ti­tles like Judy for Girls. Am­ing went straight for Nod­dy. Soon she was fill­ing copy­books with sto­ries of her own, per­form­ing them for her child­hood friend Char­maine at mock “book launch­es.”

Just weeks ago, Joshua Kent had re­signed him­self to miss­ing his school’s grad­u­a­tion din­ner. With his moth­er’s pend­ing surgery and the fam­i­ly al­ready stretched fi­nan­cial­ly, the 18-year-old had pushed the event off the pri­or­i­ty list.

Be­com­ing a moth­er for many women is an ex­cit­ing and nerve-wrack­ing jour­ney, with child­birth be­ing a ma­jor source of an­tic­i­pa­tion and anx­i­ety. Gen­tly guid­ing moth­ers-to-be and new moth­ers to and through child bear­ing is the job of a mid­wife, a trained health­care pro­fes­sion­al who pro­vides med­ical care, emo­tion­al sup­port and ed­u­ca­tion to moth­ers and new­borns. Mid­wives stand be­side women dur­ing some of the most vul­ner­a­ble, trans­for­ma­tive and in­ti­mate mo­ments in their lives, act­ing as ush­ers for one of hu­man­i­ty’s most pro­found ex­pe­ri­ences: bring­ing new life in­to the world.