Var­sha’s date and wal­nut cake is sweet and per­fect­ly spiced with warm aro­mat­ics. Rich and moist, dates nat­u­ral­ly sweet­en the cake so that less sug­ar is need­ed. Wal­nuts add tex­ture while or­ange essence adds an ex­tra di­men­sion of flavour.

The ad­di­tion of roast­ed or sautéed mush­rooms pro­vides deep earth­i­ness and meati­ness to your sal­ad with­out the need for meat—mak­ing it a per­fect op­tion for veg­e­tar­i­ans. We sug­gest roast­ing your mush­rooms with fresh thyme and gar­lic for even more flavour.

Roast­ed nuts can do a lot more than just sti­fle your hunger; they can add valu­able tex­ture, smok­i­ness and pro­tein to many dish­es.

Sci­en­tif­ic re­search has re­vealed the im­por­tance of hav­ing a good night’s sleep on our phys­i­cal, men­tal and emo­tion­al health.

In­juries come with pain and this pre­vents us from func­tion­ing nor­mal­ly. De­pend­ing on the sever­i­ty, in­juries can rob us of our in­de­pen­dence, ac­tiv­i­ties we en­joy and even pre­cious sleep. In­juries can al­so af­fect fam­i­lies, teams and com­pa­nies when peo­ple are un­able to work or per­form. Find­ing ways to pre­vent in­juries is a grow­ing con­cern for many.

Noth­ing is more frus­trat­ing than telling some­one some­thing and then hav­ing him or her not be­lieve you. Even worse is hav­ing he or she tell you that you don’t know what you are talk­ing about. It be­comes even more in­fu­ri­at­ing when you have to tell a fam­i­ly mem­ber that their loved one needs to get help in their day-to-day ac­tiv­i­ties and, the fam­i­ly mem­ber is still in de­nial.

Some­one re­cent­ly hint­ed to me that I should write an ar­ti­cle about men and their in­se­cu­ri­ties. I’ve been de­bat­ing in my head for a while how I should go about ad­dress­ing this is­sue. I have come to re­alise how dam­ag­ing this is­sue (of their in­se­cu­ri­ties) can be to men, men­tal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly. Now don’t get me wrong, both men and women have in­se­cu­ri­ties, but women seem to have an eas­i­er time open­ing up, while men, on the oth­er hand, have in­se­cu­ri­ties that are thrust up­on them since child­hood. We are taught that we need to “mea­sure up”.

JBF talks to Obed Si­mon, the fa­ther of one of our pa­tients, about how his life changed af­ter his son was di­ag­nosed with Non-Hodgkins T-cell Lym­phoma.

Yo­ga is de­scribed as the an­cient sci­ence which fo­cus­es on bring­ing har­mo­ny be­tween mind, body, man and na­ture.

What in­trigues me, cease­less­ly, is the mis­ce­gena­tion, the melt­ing pot of in­flu­ences, which abounds in the Caribbean and more so in the south­ern Caribbean. It res­onates through an un­con­di­tion­al ap­pre­ci­a­tion of our plur­al bi­ogra­phies which im­pact on our fash­ion sen­si­bil­i­ties.

Naima Thomp­son has been an in­ter­na­tion­al ed­u­ca­tor of the dra­mat­ic arts for al­most 30 years and an In­tern Dra­ma Ther­a­pist with the North Amer­i­can Dra­ma Ther­a­pists As­so­ci­a­tion (NAD­TA) for two years.

Born on J’Ou­vert morn­ing in 1995, at Med­ical As­so­ciates in St Joseph, Tani­ka Du­ri­ty came in­to the world. The third child of Ear­lie Du­ri­ty and Fran­cis­ca Leza­ma, she grew up as a typ­i­cal child in a vil­lage set­ting amongst her ex­tend­ed fam­i­ly mem­bers on La Ba­ja Road in St Joseph.