It’s im­por­tant to pri­or­i­tize look­ing af­ter teen men­tal health as they make their way to­ward adult­hood. As such, to­mor­row, March 2nd, we ac­knowl­edge World Teen Men­tal Well­ness Day, ob­served across the globe every year.

When we con­tem­plate the words, “cre­atives”, “courage”, “skill­ful­ly nav­i­gat­ing the pan­dem­ic”; one en­er­gy ris­es like a phoenix to the top. None oth­er than the di­vine­ly gift­ed, Vaugh­nette Big­ford. The WE mag­a­zine wel­comed the op­por­tu­ni­ty to take a deep dive with this trail­blaz­er and get to know her bet­ter.

Even with the steady hum of anx­i­ety, in­se­cu­ri­ties, and fears.... I’ve watched you press on. Even in these times, bur­dened by the loom of un­cer­tain­ty and so­cial re­stric­tions, it has lift­ed my heart to see you cling to your cre­ative goals with your savvy fierce spir­it. You have used your gifts as a ther­a­peu­tic tool, and our time in lock­down as an im­pe­tus to ex­plore and sharp­en your skillsets.

I have al­ways been drawn to cre­ative pur­suits. Grow­ing up, my moth­er did cro­chet, macramé, fab­ric arts, bak­ing and sewed our clothes and cos­tumes for school car­ni­val jump-up. That es­tab­lished my foun­da­tion. My first re­al cre­ative project in­volved painstak­ing­ly cut­ting and paint­ing in­di­vid­ual poin­set­tia petals for a Christ­mas card at around age 7.

Young artist Chan­tal Boynes de­cid­ed to take mat­ters in­to her own hands two years ago when a re­quire­ment of an art com­pe­ti­tion dis­cour­aged her from en­ter­ing. In­stead of sim­ply throw­ing her hands up in frus­tra­tion, her cre­ative mind went to work. She came up with her own or­gan­i­sa­tion, the Boynes Emerg­ing Artist Award, an on­line art com­pe­ti­tion to pro­mote and sup­port bud­ding artists world­wide.

With the coro­n­avirus scent still fresh in the air, many of us have ne­glect­ed rou­tine health check-ups. How­ev­er, as re­stric­tions are be­ing lift­ed, we should pay more at­ten­tion to our­selves.

Shoma the La­bel cap­tures the in­tri­cate drap­ing of the ba­nana blos­som, the gen­tle sway of the sug­ar cane and the splen­dour of the cof­fee and co­coa crops of the is­lands in its sec­ond col­lec­tion, Har­vest. More than that, Har­vest spot­lights the unique fash­ion ori­gins of our peo­ple.

Folk­tales are sto­ries that grew out of the lives and imag­i­na­tions of the peo­ple—or folk. These sto­ries are en­joyed by chil­dren about age three and up. Some peo­ple use the terms folk­tale and fairy tale in­ter­change­ably. You may find that some of these tales have no fairies or mag­ic char­ac­ters in them, there is a brief list­ing of some of the most promi­nent kinds of folk­tales.

Who­ev­er said find­ing true love on a cruise ship was pure fan­ta­sy on­ly pos­si­ble on the 1980s hit TV se­ries, The Love Boat, has nev­er met Ka­ri­na Kalanovic and Ne­man­ja Kalanovic.

For many lo­cal en­ter­tain­ers the emer­gence of COVID-19 weighed like a wet blan­ket on their ca­reer, how­ev­er, for Jar­dine “Jadel” Cherelle Leg­ere it was the sil­ver lin­ing to her cloud.

Dubbed Clash of the Com­mu­ni­ty Tents, the Mis­sioneers Ca­lyp­so Tent from To­ba­go, Birds Ca­lyp­so Tent and the Cen­tral Rain­bow Stars Ca­lyp­so Tent rep­re­sent­ed and their per­for­mances raked in a sub­stan­tial amount of vir­tu­al mon­ey con­tri­bu­tions.