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The Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training (METVT) wishes to inform the public that any scheduled face-to-face classes at all schools will resume...

The furore caused by the Trojan Riddim brought into sharp focus just how impactful and influential lyrics in music can be.The discourse continues to be about “the songs on the Trojan Riddim”, but really it’s the lyrics that could incite violence and hate that people have a problem with. The music of the riddim tells a very different story. Those stories could be about positive

Maternity Matters by Midwife Andrea Jordan “ TOUCH IS THE FIRST LANGUAGE WE SPEAK”. These are the famous words of Stephen Gaskin, late husband to one of America’s most well-known midwives Ina May Gaskin, and they sum up humanity’s basic need for communication through physical interaction and touch. The bonding that results is the attachment which develops between both parents

ADOLESCENT HEALTH by Nakiah Thomas-Edwards THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION PRESENTS SOME KEY FACTS ABOUT ADOLESCENTS THAT SPARK COMPARISON WITH BARBADOS STATISTICS. According to the WHO over 1.5 million adolescents and young adults aged 10–24 years died in 2019, nearly 5000 every day. The report also stated that young adolescents aged 10–14 years have the lowest risk of

SUPPORTING A FAMILY MEMBER WITH PSYCHOSIS by Jomo Phillips MSSW-MFT (Clinical Fellow AAMFT) Couple & Family Therapist/Clinical Social Worker Since I have been a clinician, I have had individuals on various occasions call me often in a panic about a family member who has started to exhibit bizarre behaviour. Nothing is scarier than experiencing a family member who appears to hear

THE POWER OF Music IT HAS LONG BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN THROUGH VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS THAT SOUND AND MUSIC IMPACT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF HUMANS. ARTS THERAPIST AND MENTAL HEALTH COACH CHERITH PEDERSEN DISCUSSES THE VARIOUS WAYS THIS CAN OCCUR. Music keeps us chipping With all the stir that music has created recently in Barbados, we begin to ask: what is all the fuss about?