The In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day (IWD) Caribbean Tech Sum­mit 2022, host­ed by Google Women Tech­mak­ers, Google De­vel­op­er Groups and Women in Tech Caribbean, took place mere weeks ago and WE had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to con­verse with the or­ga­niz­ing com­mit­tee, and cap­ture the ‘true band­width’ of this 6-day Sum­mit. Speak­ers and part­ners hailed from 10 Caribbean coun­tries in­clud­ing Ja­maica, Trinidad and To­ba­go, Guyana, Bar­ba­dos, St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines, Guade­loupe, the Ba­hamas, Suri­name, Brazil and Haiti.

This Moth­er’s Day, Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed brings you two first-per­son ac­counts on moth­er­ing by moth­ers and grand­moth­ers.

With a land­mass of on­ly 5,131 km², Trinidad & To­ba­go does not pos­sess gi­gan­tic wa­ter­falls like An­gel Falls, Venezuela; Tres Her­manas Falls, Pe­ru or Olo'up­e­na Falls in Hawaii. But while those three are the tallest drops of wa­ter and are among the world's pic­turesque sites, they are dan­ger­ous to take on for a bit of leisure.

‘COVID-15” be­came a pop­u­lar term based on in­creas­ing re­ports and dis­cus­sions of peo­ple gain­ing weight due to quar­an­ti­ning in­doors, mov­ing less, and chang­ing their eat­ing habits.

The trends are chang­ing, we are ob­serv­ing younger per­sons trans­mit­ting COVID-19 and there is much to ex­plore!

Ever since they could re­mem­ber, the Wilt­shire sis­ters had al­ways thrived as a group. As chil­dren and teens, they of­ten strolled across their school­yards—proud, hap­py, con­fi­dent, and safe.

It’s a truth well known that chil­dren en­ter­ing sec­ondary schools should have been read­ing books oth­er than those pre­scribed by the “book­list”—manda­to­ry for the aca­d­e­m­ic pur­suit of the holy grail of ob­tain­ing en­try in­to the hal­lowed hall of suc­cess held out by the CSEC or CAPE.

Two years af­ter the last lo­cal Car­ni­val, scores of Trinidad and To­ba­go's en­ter­tain­ers, mas pro­duc­ers and par­ty lovers be­gin five days of cel­e­bra­tions in Can­cun, Mex­i­co to­day for what has been la­belled Melé Des­ti­na­tions.

Sis­ter Marie Thérèse Rétout has re­ceived many ac­co­lades through­out her life­time for her out­stand­ing ser­vice to T&T.

In just four and a half years Aaron Johnathan Ner­a­hoo has grown his cus­tomised co­conut cock­tails busi­ness, John­ny’s Young Co­conuts, to the point where for­eign clients come to T&T to seek him out. It’s be­cause he is a prob­lem solver and a hard work­er, Ner­a­hoo who is fond­ly called “John­ny”, in­sist­ed dur­ing a re­cent in­ter­view. Of course, the key in­gre­di­ents of his spe­cial­ty prod­uct, co­conuts, do play a star­ring role.

Google Women Tech­mak­ers, Google De­vel­op­er Groups and Women in Tech Caribbean along with re­gion­al part­ners in STEAM (Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy, En­gi­neer­ing, Arts and Math­e­mat­ics) in­dus­try will be host­ing the sec­ond in­stall­ment of the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day Caribbean Tech Sum­mit 2022, an an­nu­al event tar­get­ing the Di­ver­si­ty and In­clu­sion space for the Caribbean and its Di­as­po­ra.

Stress is not nec­es­sar­i­ly a ‘bad’ thing. With­out this bril­liant abil­i­ty to feel stress, hu­mankind wouldn’t have sur­vived. Our cave­men an­ces­tors, for ex­am­ple, used the on­set of stress to alert them to a po­ten­tial dan­ger, such as a sabre-toothed tiger.