Ronald Ben­jamin was re­mem­bered by the peo­ple who cel­e­brat­ed his life as a man who loved "his neigh­bour as he loved him­self" and who gave self­less­ly with­out look­ing for re­ward or adu­la­tion.

Men who are se­cret­ly strug­gling with stress, de­pres­sion or oth­er is­sues af­fect­ing men­tal health can reach out to the Ro­tary Club of Port-of-Spain West. Re­cent­ly-elect­ed Pres­i­dent of the Club, Sonya Phillip and her team are part­ner­ing with men­tal health ex­perts to help trou­bled males work out their prob­lems through CALM.

Cere­bral Pal­sy (CP) is an un­wel­come glob­al phe­nom­e­non. World Cere­bral Pal­sy Day, which oc­curs an­nu­al­ly on Oc­to­ber 6, re­minds us that there over 17 mil­lion peo­ple im­pact­ed by this dis­or­der. CP is one of the most com­mon phys­i­cal dis­abil­i­ties af­fect­ing the most vul­ner­a­ble among us, our chil­dren. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, CP oc­curs over the span of a child’s en­tire life­time with no cure.

You have no­ticed that your sev­en-year-old re­cent­ly start­ed bed­wet­ting, when pre­vi­ous­ly she did not have this prob­lem. You have al­so no­ticed; her lev­el of anx­i­ety is fluc­tu­at­ing, and you heard her snor­ing. But how is it pos­si­ble for a sev­en-year-old to be snor­ing? Your child may be pre­sent­ing with the tell-tale signs of Ob­struc­tive Sleep Ap­nea (OSA). As we all nav­i­gate this COVID-19 Pan­dem­ic, let’s en­sure we are in­formed and not miss­ing these signs or detri­men­tal con­se­quences of OSA.

Pro­lif­ic culi­nary am­bas­sador and TV per­son­al­i­ty Chef Ja­son Pe­ru wants to shake things up and makes no apolo­gies for his as­pi­ra­tions.

One year ago as Physics teacher Aar­ti Dowlath pub­lished her two units of CAPE Re­vi­sion Guides she was al­ready plot­ting her next move–a book that cov­ers the spec­trum of foun­da­tion­al Physics. This new book would cater to the Physics CSEC syl­labus ad­dress­ing all the top­ics cov­ered un­der the course for stu­dents from Forms one to Five.

Is gen­der a fac­tor in coro­nary artery dis­ease? A woman’s heart may look just like a man’s, but there are sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ences. For ex­am­ple, a woman’s heart is usu­al­ly small­er, as are some of its in­te­ri­or cham­bers. The walls that di­vide some of these cham­bers are thin­ner. And while a woman’s heart pumps faster than a man’s, it ejects about 10% less blood with each squeeze.

Pa­tient DS knows she should have seen the warn­ing signs. When she looked back at 2018, the year she suf­fered a stroke, the 56-year-old prin­ci­pal re­calls “an over­worked, ded­i­cat­ed pro­fes­sion­al who de­pri­or­i­tized her health and re­mained in de­nial”. “I had let my blood pres­sure go un­con­trolled, and I re­mained chron­i­cal­ly stressed and in­ac­tive for too long,” she says. She knew she was play­ing with her health but got caught in the vi­cious cy­cle of tak­ing care of the world and not her­self. Post-stroke, and lost her abil­i­ty to freely move her dom­i­nant hand and low­er limb, there is much she shares she would do dif­fer­ent­ly.

Be­ing phys­i­cal­ly ac­tive is a ma­jor step to­ward good heart health and an im­por­tant way to low­er your risk of heart dis­ease. It’s one of your most ef­fec­tive tools for strength­en­ing the heart mus­cle, keep­ing your weight un­der con­trol and ward­ing off the artery dam­age from high cho­les­terol, high blood sug­ar and high blood pres­sure that can lead to heart at­tack or stroke.

Through all this un­cer­tain­ty of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, one thing for cer­tain is that sleep is ex­treme­ly im­por­tant to the heart as much as it is to the mind and vi­tal or­gans. If you are one of the many peo­ple who toss and turn night­ly, you are no stranger to how a sleep­less night can af­fect your mo­ti­va­tion, at­ti­tude and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of your day. How­ev­er, the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of poor sleep ex­tend far be­yond a cranky mood.

“We have bro­ken bar­ri­ers in car­dio­vas­cu­lar care with many ground­break­ing firsts”, shares Dr Ris­shi Ram­per­sad, In­ter­ven­tion­al Car­di­ol­o­gist, Caribbean Heart Care Med­corp (CHCm).

Trinida­di­an-born Laila Sul­tan-Khan Valere has been a promi­nent coun­selling psy­chol­o­gist, diplo­mat, con­fer­ence leader and ed­u­ca­tor. Be­ing a moth­er, how­ev­er, has af­ford­ed her her most prized lega­cy. When she be­came preg­nant at 45, af­ter hav­ing ex­pe­ri­enced menopause, she set out to prove a be­lief she had al­ways held–that child­birth is a beau­ti­ful, di­vine gift which is meant to be nat­ur­al and pain­less. She seeks to pass on her rev­e­la­tions to oth­er women in her re­cent book, The Birthing God­dess–Re­claim­ing the Lega­cy of Nat­ur­al, Pain-free Child­birth.