Wellness

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that Trinidad and Tobago will close its borders to all visitors for the next 14 days from midnight 17 March. Meanwhile, schools will remain closed until 20 April 2020. The decision, according to Rowley, is a first step to stop the twin-island republic …

Trinidad and Tobago has two more confirmed cases of Covid-19. The Ministry of Health confirmed the additional positive findings tonight, which brings the total number of persons found to be carrying the coronavirus to four. No further information was offered regarding the age or sex of the patients, where they …

Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus issued guidelines today to employers, unions and employees designed to deal with the Covid-19 virus and ‘mitigate the obvious personal and family logistical inconveniences and the consequential significant workplace adjustments which are expected to be faced, as a result of the inevitable decision which had to …

The Ministry of Health announced Trinidad’s second confirmed case of coronavirus Covid-19 at 7.44pm on Friday 13 March. The patient is a 66-year-old male who travelled outside of the country’s borders within the last two weeks. The unnamed man went for testing at a public health facility on Thursday and …

There’s a human who walks in small tight circles on the pavement in Champs Fleurs in front of a successful company. His fingers on one hand are visibly rotting, his smell is putrid, he made me think of the personification of the ‘creature from the black lagoon’. I first saw …

The following Letter to the Editor was submitted to Wired868 from Mohan Ramcharan in Birmingham, England. In it, he responds to Minister of Health Dr Terrence Deyalsingh’s statement on plans for citizen’s returning from China, where the coronavirus was first detected in December 2019: I have carefully weighed the minister …

Every four days, someone dies by suicide in Trinidad and Tobago. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), T&T has the third-highest suicide rate regionally, behind Suriname and Guyana. These countries share high East Indian populations, who are most impacted by suicides. Speaking at a suicide prevention workshop before last …

“Mental health and physical health are fundamentally linked. There are multiple associations between poor mental health and chronic physical conditions … so we are hoping that S.I.M. would be able to offer a refuge, which is a safe space to rebuild oneself, for those in schools and others. “ The …

“While we share one atmosphere, the rich can afford healthcare and land far away from landfills and the direct effects of environmental degradation. In the end, we may all be destroyed, but the poor will watch their children suffer first.” The following Letter to the Editor on sanitation workers protests …

The Government in its 2019 Budget statement announced with great fanfare that the Disability Grant has increased from $1,800 to $2,000. A little extra cacada from the government always sounds good, not so? Let’s put this into real perspective. I asked Tyron Bishop, disability advocate, to talk about this his …

“I’ll help anyone who is in need or in any type of challenging or non-challenging situation; I would give to the world if I can,” said former Trinidad and Tobago National Under-20 Team defender and St Anthony’s College student Derron John. “Anything to help, I’ll be there once I am …

The Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies (CCLCS), will present a special panel discussion hosted by the Elma Francois Institute for Research and Debate (EFIRD) entitled ‘Venezuelans in Trinidad and Tobago: Implications for Labour and Society’. This event takes place on Friday 24th May 2019 from 6.00pm – 9.00pm …