An in­crease in aware­ness of an­i­mal wel­fare in Trinidad and To­ba­go is re­sult­ing in few­er own­ers choos­ing to dock (cut off) the tails of their dogs.

The up­com­ing Caribbean Fash­ion Show and Richès Karay­ib Voic­es in Bar­ba­dos will fea­ture ten fash­ion de­sign­ers from dif­fer­ent Caribbean is­lands and one of these dis­tin­guished de­sign­ers is an up­com­ing brand–SS La­bel by Shiv­onne Subero from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

This is the mis­sion Janelle Abra­ham is about the take on af­ter mak­ing her name as a film di­rec­tor and pro­duc­er in the hip-hop, afro beats, and reg­gae cir­cuit in New York.

The Art So­ci­ety of T&T’s (ASTT) lat­est mem­bers’ ex­hi­bi­tion, Min­i­mal­ism, opened on April 4 at ASTT head­quar­ters, St Clair. It is open un­til April 21, Tues­days to Sat­ur­days 12 pm to 6 pm.

Af­ter decades of be­ing brain­washed to be­lieve on­ly ‘the Queen’s Eng­lish’ was ac­cept­able, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s writ­ers (along with writ­ers in our re­gion) are find­ing their own voice and be­ing cel­e­brat­ed and court­ed for it.

The Gar­den Club of Trinidad re­cent­ly host­ed a fundrais­ing tea and gar­den par­ty at Mille Fleurs, one of the Mag­nif­i­cent Sev­en and home to The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Me­le­na Si­mon-O’Neil is a woman who lit­er­al­ly and fig­u­ra­tive­ly wears many hats. She is a busi­ness psy­chol­o­gist, en­tre­pre­neur, cor­po­rate train­er and speak­er, cer­ti­fied wed­ding con­sul­tant, and event de­sign­er.

Robert Young just re­turned from Por­tu­gal Fash­ion Week where The Cloth showed on the main Run­way through the Cre­ative Africa Nexus (CANEX) in­clu­sion. This re­sult­ed from a part­ner­ship be­tween the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Young En­tre­pre­neurs in Por­tu­gal and the African Ex­port-Im­port Bank (Afrex­im­bank) pro­mot­ing the African tex­tile and cloth­ing in­dus­try in Por­tu­gal.

The Sun­day Gua­di­an spoke to some young women from the Bap­tist faith to get their per­spec­tives on the re­li­gion, the ob­ser­va­tion of Shouter Bap­tist Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day an­nu­al­ly, and where they see them­selves and the faith in a few years.

WE ac­cept that be­ing a par­ent is tough as is. How­ev­er, when an ex­tra lay­er is added, par­ent­ing an “ex­tra­or­di­nary child” brings ad­di­tion­al chal­lenges—ones most are not ex­pect­ing. Be­ing the par­ent of a child with a dis­abil­i­ty car­ries unique re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, stres­sors, and even re­wards!

“They choose you, they choose their par­ents,” shared Tra­cy Hutchin­son Wal­lace, co-founder of Autism Spir­it as our first en­counter while pro­cess­ing his di­ag­no­sis. Though Tra­cy isn’t here with us any­more, those words stay with me, and it is the gift that keeps giv­ing, as that line con­tin­u­ous­ly of­fers con­so­la­tion to par­ents of these ‘ex­tra­or­di­nary chil­dren’.