The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Open Cam­pus has an­nounced the Vale­dic­to­ri­an for its 2021 Vir­tu­al Pre­sen­ta­tion of Grad­u­ates Cer­e­mo­ny, which will be held on Sat­ur­day,at 4 pm via UWItv plat­forms.

The gov­ern­ment of Japan, through its Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Cul­ture, Sports, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, al­so known as MEXT or Mon­bu-Ka­gaku-Shō, of­fers schol­ar­ships to for­eign stu­dents who de­sire to study at Japan­ese uni­ver­si­ties as post­grad­u­ate/re­search stu­dents every aca­d­e­m­ic year. Suc­cess­ful ap­pli­cants re­ceive round-trip air­fare, ex­emp­tion from school fees and a month­ly al­lowance.

The World Tourism Or­gan­i­sa­tion des­ig­nat­ed World Tourism Day 2021 on Sep­tem­ber 27 as a day to fo­cus on Tourism for In­clu­sive Growth, cel­e­brat­ing tourism’s pow­er to cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties for every­one. The To­ba­go Tourism Agency Lim­it­ed com­mem­o­rat­ed World Tourism Day this year with sus­tain­abil­i­ty mile­stones borne out of col­lab­o­ra­tion with the is­land’s stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing two more Green Key awards and a coastal tree plant­i­ng ini­tia­tive.

In Nige­ria, a head­wrap is called a gele, a Yoru­ba word. Ghana­ian women call theirs dukus, while for South African and Namib­ian women, it is a doek.

The T&T Mu­sic Com­pa­ny Ltd (Mu­sicTT) re­cent­ly com­plet­ed its three-day mu­sic busi­ness vir­tu­al con­fer­ence which was packed with keynote pre­sen­ta­tions, pan­el dis­cus­sions, per­for­mances and net­work­ing ses­sions on var­i­ous dig­i­tal plat­forms.

The Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion host­ed its 7th An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing, vir­tu­al­ly via Mi­crosoft Teams, on Sep­tem­ber 30. The agen­da for this year’s AGM de­tailed an im­pres­sive overview of its ac­com­plish­ments for the past fi­nan­cial year, April 2020- March 2021. Not to be de­terred by all the aris­ing chal­lenges re­sult­ing from the on­go­ing pan­dem­ic, the foun­da­tion re­port­ed that they suc­cess­ful­ly in­vest­ed $3.4 mil­lion in 33 projects that im­pact­ed over 21,000 per­sons.

She is an aer­i­al silk dancer, hip-hop and tap teacher, chore­o­g­ra­ph­er, mu­si­cian, song­writer, record­ing artiste and as­pir­ing rap­per, as well as an ac­tor with a diplo­ma from the New York Film Acad­e­my. Quite a fea­ture for a 20 year old who is just 163cm tall and weighs £100. But Chelsea An­dell, al­so known as Sauce The Rap­per, and co-di­rec­tor of the Can­dice Clarke Acad­e­my for Dance (CCAD) has been do­ing ex­tra­or­di­nary things all her life.

Free­town Col­lec­tive has re­unit­ed with DJ Pri­vate Ryan to re­lease Os­hun, Bat­tal­ion Mu­sic So­ca Remix, a new groovy so­ca track that aims to re-en­er­gise and re­fo­cus at­ten­tion on the crit­i­cal is­sue of gen­der-based vi­o­lence (GBV) that is per­va­sive, through­out the Caribbean re­gion.

Con­tained in the mem­o­ries of old­er peo­ple are the sto­ries of our com­mu­ni­ties. Through their mist­ed eyes, we re­mem­ber the world as it used to be. Through their words, we learn of our his­to­ry, of how we be­came who we are to­day. How do we re­gard old­er per­sons in our so­ci­ety? As el­ders or old­er peo­ple? As sources of wis­dom or a drain on re­sources?

In his child's mind, lin­ing up in Mr Kean's Shop on Old St Joseph Road, Laven­tille, in post-war Trinidad among 15 or so peo­ple with his ra­tion card in hand was a nor­mal week­ly oc­cur­rence for Dr Hol­lis Liv­er­pool, known to many as Chalk­dust.

Pearl Grace Mur­ray cel­e­brat­ed her 100th birth­day on Wednes­day. An ex­tra­or­di­nary mile­stone in the ex­tra­or­di­nary life of an ex­tra­or­di­nary la­dy!

It was a dou­ble cel­e­bra­tion for the Ho­sein fam­i­ly of San Juan, re­cent­ly when 23-year-old Sa­dia Ka­reemah Ho­sein and her fa­ther, Aslim Ho­sein, a po­lice in­spec­tor of the TTPS Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, both grad­u­at­ed with Ho­n­ours in their re­spec­tive line of stud­ies.