La­bor Day cel­e­bra­tions in New York were large­ly scaled down this year due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. The pop­u­lar West In­di­an Day Car­ni­val Pa­rade, usu­al­ly the cli­max of the ac­tiv­i­ties, was among the events can­celled.

Janae Camp­bell was crowned Ms To­ba­go Her­itage Per­son­al­i­ty 2021 on Sep­tem­ber 11. Camp­bell, who rep­re­sent­ed the Rox­bor­ough Po­lice Youth Club, said she was elat­ed that she won: “Im­me­di­ate­ly be­fore the re­sults were read, my heart be­gan to pal­pi­tate very vig­or­ous­ly amidst the adren­a­line rush.

As a young doc­tor, I’d like to con­grat­u­late all the stu­dents on pass­ing their SEA ex­am­i­na­tions, whether it be your first, sec­ond, third or even fourth choice. Con­grat­u­la­tions to all the stu­dents!

COVID-19 has test­ed our emo­tion­al grap­pling as adults, but how has it af­fect­ed our stu­dents, es­pe­cial­ly those prepar­ing for a new school term or re­ceiv­ing re­sults from SEA ex­ams? Un­for­tu­nate­ly, COVID-19 has am­pli­fied the men­tal strain stu­dents ex­pe­ri­ence, more so with­in the “dig­i­tal” aca­d­e­m­ic walls of school. Par­ents may not be fa­mil­iar with how to help their chil­dren cope, if they them­selves are hav­ing a dif­fi­cult time ad­just­ing and cop­ing to the new re­al­i­ty which COVID-19 presents.

As the pan­dem­ic rages on – the iso­la­tion of con­firmed Delta vari­ant cas­es, the mis­in­for­ma­tion and myths of the vac­cines—so do anx­i­eties and stress about COVID-19. In fact, we be­lieve “FEAR” is be­com­ing just as con­ta­gious in its pro­lif­er­a­tion, pos­si­bly even more dam­ag­ing health wise.

Sep­tem­ber 5 was In­ter­na­tion­al Day of Char­i­ty and Sagi­cor part­nered with lo­cal­ly, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly-recog­nised char­i­ty Is There Not A Cause (Itnac).

Gib­bon was one of 13 chil­dren and lived her ear­ly days on Rich­mond Street, Port-of-Spain. Be­ing the ninth of 13 chil­dren, when her fa­ther died at a young age, she was brought up by her old­er sis­ters, as her moth­er was busy keep­ing the home go­ing.

Phool­wan­ti 'Doll' Ram­s­ingh, 58, of Doll's Chul­has in Branch Road, Fyz­abad, is af­fec­tion­ate­ly known as Aun­ty Doll, the Chul­ha La­dy from Fyz­abad and the Orig­i­nal Chatak Matak Queen.

Mem­o­ries of her child­hood in T&T in the 1950s and 1960s, in­spired the works of vi­su­al artist In­dra Per­sad Milowe.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 150 pupils at­tend the Laven­tille Girls’ Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, lo­cat­ed at Bertie Mar­shall Boule­vard, Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille, and prin­ci­pal Pa­tri­cia Thor­ing­ton is de­ter­mined that every one of them leaves as "an el­e­vat­ed per­son in some way."

The T&T Mu­sic Com­pa­ny Ltd (Mu­sicTT) has launched its an­nu­al open call for artistes and in­stru­men­tal­ists who are in­ter­est­ed in be­ing a part of co­hort five of its Spot­light Pro­gramme.

The Unit­ed Na­tions de­fines hu­man traf­fick­ing as “the re­cruit­ment, trans­porta­tion, trans­fer, har­bour­ing, or re­ceipt of per­sons by im­prop­er means (such as force, ab­duc­tion, fraud, or co­er­cion) for an im­prop­er pur­pose in­clud­ing forced labour or sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion.”