“Having the tools and skills to make healthier choices will not only simplify your life in the kitchen, but will fuel your passion to be excited about feeding yourself and your family.” – Bianca Bianco, Chef & Instructor
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Medicine & Therapy
Dr. Sawh: Making Medical History — Again
Twenty-two years after his contributions to the field of medicine made him the nation’s youngest recipient of the Chaconia Gold Medal, Dr. Sawh has made medical history again.
Medicine & Therapy
Lymphedema Association of T&T: Raising Awareness
Ask anyone about cancer, and familiarity floods in — but ask about lymphedema, and these same faces might furrow in confusion. Most of us know very little about the lymphatic system, and unfortunately may only learn about it when faced with a life-threatening condition.
Fitness & Exercise
Body Blast with The Prince of Fitness
The Maestro is in charge, his silent commands directing the flow of energy throughout the room. The music vibrates in time to the medley of human bodies moving, pushing, pulling, jumping, reaching — giving it their all.
Health & Wellness
Caribbean Lifestyle Diabetes Centre: Taking Charge
“Diabetes doesn’t go on vacation while you enjoy Christmas or Carnival; it’s there with you year-round. You can’t wait until something happens to take charge of your health.” – Anica Sanoir, CEO/Lead Educator, Caribbean Lifestyle Diabetes Centre
Health & Wellness
Special Olympics T&T: The Ability to Excel
“A special person can do anything we can — and sometimes, even a little better!” This is the belief of the global organisation Special Olympics, and our local arm in Trinidad and Tobago upholds this core principle.
Fitness & Exercise
New Wave: Corporate Gym Management & Outfitting
Whether it’s a small office-sized room for just a few employees at a time or a large fully-outfitted facility, having a gym at the workplace is an investment that keeps on giving.
Fitness & Exercise
Taekwondo Champ Edson Breedy: Onward to Rio
To the onlooker, it appears to be a dizzying display of sparring with high kicks, spinning and jumping. But a lot goes into the preparation for the martial art of taekwondo: reaction force, concentration, equilibrium, breath control, body mass, and most important: speed.
Health & Wellness
Talking Financial Wellness with Calvin Mendez
“Imagine you go to a doctor for a headache, and he puts your leg in a cast… You can’t just ‘sell insurance’; you have to first understand your client’s financial needs.” – Calvin Mendez
Food & Nutrition
Empower Nutrition: The Power of Nutrition
Nutrition holds the power to unlock the body’s full potential — and yet, its importance is often overlooked.
Fitness & Exercise
Raw Fitness: Getting Pumped in South T&T
Whether you are a gym addict or a first-timer, South Trinidad’s newest gym facility has something to offer for everyone.
Fitness & Exercise
Kenny Lindsay: Mr. Physique
“The real source behind my drive is me being better than I was yesterday.” For Kenny Lindsay, self-motivation is essential. A fitness competitor, fitness/fashion model, personal trainer and gym supervisor, twenty-two-year-old Kenny has a lot riding on his brawny shoulders.
Medicine & Therapy
Dr. Alexandra Ames: Medicine Made Simple
We often think of birth control as a synonym for ‘condoms’ or ‘the pill’ — but contraception is far more expansive and diverse than just these common options.
Medicine & Therapy
Vitas House – Quality Hospice Care
The word ‘hospice’ brings to mind an onslaught of powerful images — illness, and pain; but these preconceptions fade away on entering Vitas House. The spotlessly clean, comfortable environment with modern fittings belies its nature — which is to care for the terminally ill cancer patients.
Sports & Recreation
Biomechanics: Behind the Scene of Cricket
The sport of cricket immediately calls to mind our nation’s famous batsmen and bowlers… but what about the rest of the team behind the scenes? Dinesh Mahabir is one of these invaluable team members.
Medicine & Therapy
Digestive Disorders: Crohn’s and Colitis in T&T
It is a silent shame suffered by some, about an aspect of our lives that most may prefer to keep private: bowel movements. But for a person with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), secrecy is difficult to maintain.
Medicine & Therapy
Dr. James Bratt: Psychiatry for Seniors
“Old people don’t have problems… why would they need a psychiatrist?” This is the type of derogatory comment that Dr. James Bratt has often had to deal with.
Sports & Recreation
Bboy Young10: Breakdancing in the Spotlight
“Nobody can do what I do.” Quite the broad statement… but Jerome Richardson, or “BBoy Young10” as his fans know him, is accurate in his boast.
Medicine & Therapy
T&T IVF & Fertility Centre: Delivering Hope
For those who long for parenthood, being unable to conceive can be devastating.
Defense & Safety
Rape & Domestic Violence in T&T: Reaching Out
Rape and domestic violence are topics that are painful to discuss — but it is this very silence that perpetuates the harm they cause. There is also a misconception that ‘these things’ do not happen in civilised society, particularly among working professional women.
Health & Wellness
The Down Syndrome Family Network: Advocating For Inclusion
Athletes David Egan and Dr. Karen Gaffney. Actors Chris Burke, Tommy Jessop, Lauren Potter, and Luke Zimmerman. Models Valentina Guerrero and Jamie Brewer. These are only a few of the persons making history worldwide for their talents… and they have Down syndrome.
Medicine & Therapy
ISD Health Solutions: Making Sleep Count
We all know that snoring isn’t sexy — but did you know that snoring could also be dangerous to your health? “When you snore, you stop breathing while you sleep,” explains Gregory Arneaud, Clinical Director and Founder/CEO of ISD Health Solutions, also known as Island Sleep Diagnostics.
Sports & Recreation
Freestyle Football: A Ball and A Dream
“All you need is a ball and your imagination.” As cliché as it may sound, this is Kerron Ford’s reality. Kerron is Trinidad and Tobago’s six-time national champion in freestyle football.
Health & Wellness
Yoga 4 Youth – A Life of Balance
Self-esteem. Emotional development. Coordination. Balance. While we often speak of the general benefits of yoga, few take into consideration the profound effect that yoga can have on the development of children.
Medicine & Therapy
Taking care of your heart: Dr Clifford Thomas, Premier Heart Care
Of the major health concerns facing the world today, cardiovascular health reigns supreme.
Medicine & Therapy
CARPHA: Public Health on the Agenda
“A regular doctor sees an individual patient, and gives a diagnosis and a prescription. A public health specialist looks at an entire community or population to diagnose what is ailing its people, and makes a policy-level prescription to its Government or leaders.” – Dr. James Hospedales
Health & Wellness
The ADHD Foundation of Trinidad & Tobago: Raising Awareness
Few mental health conditions have provoked more debate and controversy in recent years than Attention Deficit [Hyperactivity] Disorder (ADD/ADHD).
Sports & Recreation
CATT: The Community of Capoeira
To the onlooker, it can appear to be a dance… Graceful, fluid movements of lunging, feinting, tumbling, kicking, twirling, cart wheeling and a myriad of acrobatic moves that seem choreographed; a physical dialogue on display.
Medicine & Therapy
Giving Back – Caribbean Medical Providers Practicing Abroad
Caribbean nationals that seek success abroad are often chastised for contributing to the regional ‘brain drain’ — but recent trends in diaspora engagement point, in fact, to the reverse: a ‘brain gain’.
Health & Wellness
The Just Because Foundation: Care Beyond Cancer
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. A childhood diagnosis of cancer is something that shakes you as a parent — it simply makes no sense why anyone so young and precious could be so ill.
Medicine & Therapy
Caribbean Kids & Family Therapy Organisation: A Family of Care
For a parent of a child with disabilities, the world can seem very limiting and frustrating. It is this first-hand knowledge and experience that led to the formation of Caribbean Kids and Family Therapy Organisation (CKFTO).
Medicine & Therapy
Eye Health in T&T: A Closer Look
“Would you rather lose a limb, or an eye?” It is the question that grabs the attention of someone who is about to close the door in your face — a reaction that ophthalmologist Dr. Debra Bartholomew has experienced during the National Eye Survey of Trinidad and Tobago (NESTT).
Health & Wellness
Rovon: Home Healthcare with a Difference
Healthcare does not end when you are discharged from the hospital. For many, it is a long and challenging journey ahead, and professional care and support are needed at every step along the way.
Medicine & Therapy
Renew Clinic: Beyond Therapy
The artwork is the first thing you notice — which is hardly something you would say about a clinic.
Sports & Recreation
Trevlon Hall: BMX Freestyle Pioneer
“If you build it, they will come.” It is the timeless test of faith — and one Trevlon Hall knows all too well.
Medicine & Therapy
Urologist Dr. Lall Sawh: Pioneering the Field
It’s not often you meet a legend — and Lall Sawh’s career is certainly legendary. Dr. Lall Ramnath Sawh, CMT., MB., FRCS, ranks among the uppermost echelons of success in the field of urological medicine throughout the Caribbean.
Medicine & Therapy
The Therapeutic Workshoppe: Speech-Language & Occupational Therapy
Tie-tongue. Lisp. Stutter. These are the words that immediately come to mind when we think of ‘speech problems’ — but the field of speech-language therapy is far deeper and more diverse than these.
Health & Wellness
The T&T Association of Midwives: Delivering the Future
Pregnancy can be one of the most exciting periods for an expectant mother — and one of the most challenging. The barrage of information is overwhelming, and the different choices for healthcare can be confusing. This is where the midwife’s role comes in.
Fitness & Exercise
Rhythm & Style: Latin Dance in T&T
The word ‘dance’ in Trinidad and Tobago usually connotes gyrating to soca or grooving to calypso music — but there is another dance style gaining popularity among Trinbagonians: Latin dance.
Health & Wellness
Livet Wellness Centre & Holistic Spa
“Why Diet when you can Livet?” It is the maxim of Uchenna Hackett, more commonly known by his clients as ‘Dr. Livet’, who owns and operates the Livet Wellness Centre & Holistic Spa in Barataria, north-west Trinidad.
Fitness & Exercise
Brent Elder: The Catalyst of Fitness
“Let your fitness work for you.” It was the advice of his mentor, and today it is the challenge Brent Elder puts forward to the future generations of fitness professionals.
Defense & Safety
Safety First! — The Audit You Need
“You have to care about people. That’s what Safety is all about. You are there as the buffer to step in — and your intervention could be the thing that sends someone home to his or her family at the end of the day.”
Sports & Recreation
Tai Chi: A Way of Life
“Tai chi is a very total art. It is high art disguised as a dance. Every movement has a hidden secret self-defence technique.”
Fitness & Exercise
Studio W: A Community of Care
“Women set the stage for the lifestyle of the family. Almost every woman we work with represents a family, an extended family, and the wider community.”
Sports & Recreation
ZIP-ITT: The Thrill of the Swoosh
Legs dangling, heart in your stomach, wind at your back — and the childish burst of glee as you go propelling at full speed over the North West coast of Trinidad. It’s ZIP-ITT, or ZIP lining In Trinidad and Tobago, to be precise.
Medicine & Therapy
Holistic Healing with Horses and Yoga
Namaste. “The divine essence in me recognises the divine essence in you.” It is the customary greeting in yoga — and akin to the connection between a horse and a child in the Horses Helping Humans programme.
Health & Wellness
Yvonne Batson: Changing the Future of Diabetes in T&T
While Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean are certainly not immune to the rising global tide of obesity and diabetes in children, the region lacks one key determining factor that could alleviate the situation: comprehensive research and data.
Fitness & Exercise
Provocative Fitness: Making Sexy Fit
“Sexy” and “corporate” are words that don’t often go together. But Provocative Fitness begs to differ.
Sports & Recreation
Indoor and Out: It’s the Climb
“It’s not about physical strength at all. Rock climbing is about discipline, skill, and mental focus — technique is key.” The same could be said about life — and Marc Ramlal is the living proof.
Fitness & Exercise
WOW – Women Only Workout
The thought of going to a gym can be a daunting one for mature women, particularly if it’s a first time experience.