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“The greatest lesson I learnt from the pandemic is that life changes in the blink of an eye…so we need to love…be flexible…and be our brother’s keeper.” These words from Deanna Gomez-Peyrefitte, an entrepreneur from Belize, echo throughout the Caribbean. Deanna is...
Sit back and join me on the lesser beaten path – of how Astronomy at the University of the West Indies (UWI) has engaged the world and uplifts our Trinidadian society. How is that even possible, you ask? How can one possibly contribute to a field that begs big...
Trinidad and Tobago is a biologist’s paradise. The sheer number of species we share these islands with is mind-blowing, and the list is growing each year as we find new species on our doorstep. Only last year a new species of Trinbagonian bat was recorded, bringing...
The history of commercially processed pet food began with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. It then increased in the middle class during the 19th century, which led to keeping dogs and cats as companions instead of working animals. English businessman James...
Treating infectious diseases is currently a major challenge globally because of the high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic microorganisms. The discovery of penicillin from a fungus in the late 1920s led to the development and widespread use of...
Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean are hotspots for terrestrial and marine biological diversity. Taxonomic studies or the ability to tell species apart are key to understanding biological diversity. In the same way that we can distinguish between hummingbird...
The past two years have been especially harsh for cocoa farmers due to adverse climate events affecting cocoa productivity. Estimates suggest that cocoa production in Trinidad and Tobago may have declined by more than 50% because of poor pod setting and increased...
The value of information is in its use. In TT, public, private, and non-government organisations collect extensive amounts of digital information in every sphere of our society. Since almost everything that happens, happens somewhere, most of this information is...
The geohazards monitored by the UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC) occur on timescales that are longer than a human lifetime. There are generations of families who have heard the same refrain from scientists at the centre: “Our region can experience large, damaging...
Every year, the countries of the Caribbean region, including TT, are plagued by the large amounts of sargassum seaweed deposited on the beaches and coastline areas. The resulting mass of degrading and critter-infested seaweed is a turnoff for tourists and local...
Now that climate change is directly affecting our day-to-day lives here in the Caribbean, it is becoming critical that we think long and hard about how we can ensure that our Caribbean healthcare systems are climate-resilient, both now and in the future, when the...
Isn’t it strange how we hear so much about climate change, and yet most of us still understand so little? That’s partly because it’s so big and endlessly complicated. Too much to wrap your head around. Even scientists who spend their days thinking about it really only...