Who owns the Earth? We all do, but si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly, no one does. In April 2023, Trinidad-born at­tor­ney Justin So­bion, along with Dutch aca­d­e­m­ic, Hans van Wil­lenswaard, launched their book, “Re­flec­tions on Earth’s Trustee­ship”. So­bion’s area of spe­cial­ty, en­vi­ron­men­tal law, is fea­tured in the book, which puts for­ward the con­cept of “earth trustee­ship” as a mod­el of plan­e­tary gov­er­nance to­wards re­duc­ing the im­pact of cli­mate change.

The hoot­ing of the red howler mon­keys had my adren­a­line pump­ing while walk­ing through their ter­ri­to­ry in the Covi­gne Riv­er Gorge.

With some four mil­lion books pub­lished an­nu­al­ly (a mil­lion rough­ly di­vid­ed up be­tween the UK and the US, Source: Word­sRat­ed) it’s safe to say a book can drown with­out mar­ket­ing and re­views. Es­pe­cial­ly if it’s a Caribbean book.

The Ro­tary Club of Mar­aval re­cent­ly host­ed its Bridger­ton-themed high tea event for its 30th An­niver­sary Cel­e­bra­tion and Fundrais­er at Mille Fleurs. Ex­trav­a­gant­ly adorned in Re­gency-era fash­ion, pa­trons were sur­round­ed by mag­nif­i­cent art­work on ex­hib­it and those on auc­tion from lo­cal artists. They were ser­e­nad­ed by the T&T Youth Phil­har­mon­ic or­ches­tra.

“Let’s go out there and res­cue some peo­ple.” Lu­cia Cabr­era-Jones, the co-founder of Women Owned Me­dia and Ed­u­ca­tion Net­work (W.O.M.E.N), pas­sion­ate­ly de­scribes the gen­e­sis of her NGO and the ethos at the core of their work.

The metic­u­lous na­ture of each cre­ation trans­lates in­to a wear­able piece, af­ter hours of her at­ten­tion. Each piece is unique­ly de­signed and hand-paint­ed, and then spe­cif­ic gar­ment treat­ments are ap­plied to en­sure the paint ad­heres to the fab­ric. The process is de­tailed and time con­sum­ing, how­ev­er, Big­ford shares, “When her clients first see their piece, their amaze­ment and ex­u­ber­ance make the process all worth­while.”

The mind of the cre­ative ge­nius is a com­plex and won­der­ful thing. Not on­ly have great artists shaped cul­ture and the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence for cen­turies, but they help us bet­ter un­der­stand how we ap­proach the world, rea­son, oc­cu­py our­selves, de­vel­op our abil­i­ties and pre­pare for the fu­ture.

Croy­don was named Lon­don Bor­ough of Cul­ture for 2023, claim­ing the ti­tle from wor­thy com­peti­tors across the cap­i­tal to cop the £1.35M fund­ing award.

The Holy Name Con­vent (HNC) Ro­bot­ics Team made their school proud when they won the Ris­ing Stars award at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed “First Lego League Su­per­pow­ered Com­pe­ti­tion”. The over­all win­ners of the com­pe­ti­tion were Trin­i­ty Col­lege, but not even this could damp­en the spir­its of the HNC young ladies who were the high­est plac­ing girls’ team in the com­pe­ti­tion–third over­all–and win­ning an award for the team to watch in the fu­ture.

While a lot of own­ers are aware of heat­stroke in dogs, cats are thought to han­dle the heat bet­ter than oth­er an­i­mals be­cause of the the­o­ry that they have evolved from desert an­i­mals. The truth is that cats do not tol­er­ate heat any bet­ter. It is easy for cats to over­heat in warm weath­er be­cause, un­like hu­mans, they can­not re­move lay­ers of cloth­ing when it gets too hot; and they do not al­ways have the op­tion of mov­ing them­selves to cool­er places to avoid the sun. Cats are al­so un­able to cool down by sweat­ing in the way hu­mans do, so they are less ca­pa­ble of reg­u­lat­ing their body tem­per­a­ture. Cats on­ly sweat through their foot pads, and they al­so pant to get rid of ex­cess heat.

This week’s WE con­tin­ues the ex­plo­ration of the po­et and prose writer An­tho­ny (Vah­ni) Capildeo’s work. The pro­lif­ic Trinidad-born po­et (writer in Res­i­dence and Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of York, Vis­it­ing Schol­ar at Pem­broke Col­lege, Cam­bridge, and Hon­orary Stu­dent of Christ Church, Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty) won the pres­ti­gious For­ward Prize (2016) for their col­lec­tion “Mea­sures of Ex­pa­tri­a­tion”.

En­ter­tain­ers Shaneil Muir, Louie Cul­ture, Iyara, and Sean Kingston were in top form at the Belle­vue Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, which took place last Sat­ur­day at Fes­ti­val Park in down­town Or­lan­do.