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“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright For a long time, I sought motivation. I read books about how to be rich and famous or how to achieve goals or how to change habits. Books helped me, but I didn't feel the auth...

Fewer than 40 per cent of staff in long-term care centres have full immunisation against Covid-19, health ministry estimates have revealed. The ministry, in response to a public access to information request from The Royal Gazette, said an estimated...

Every Halloween children descend on Raymond Madeiros’s Devonshire home “like locusts”. So many come to trick or treat and see the goblins, headless horsemen and snakes in his Melville Road yard, he has someone stand at the front gate to make sure the...

Families of seniors were yesterday warned to be on the lookout for signs of elder abuse after a total of 87 cases were reported in the 12 months up to March. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development, said 30 per cent of reported cases involv...

Rosemary Outerbridge lives just over the hedge from Manor House on Harrington Sound Road. Standing in her back garden, she can see the beautifully manicured grounds, the pools, the property’s iconic bridge and tower. Although the 93-year-old is not ...

More than 80 people at long-term care homes have tested positive for the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic – including seven unvaccinated seniors who died. Statistics released by the Ministry of Health revealed that 28 staff and 56 seniors ...

Bothered by all the glass at a nature reserve in Sandys, Clyde Bassett got to work. He later received a call thanking him for his efforts, but asking him to stop – as people tried to move the 12 blue bags he had filled and left by the roadside, glass...

Health restrictions have been eased for care homes after a drop in coronavirus infections, the Ministry of Health said. Essential visitors will be allowed indoors with residents and outdoor visits for non-essential visitors will be permitted under Ph...

Age Concern will start a virtual education programme next week covering legal, financial and computer literacy, the charity said yesterday. A statement said the 11 sessions “cover many of the main issues people face as they age”, including how to st...

With her own relationships with seniors in mind, Lakshmi Magon was saddened by all that Covid-19 was doing to people in care homes. Sixty per cent no longer had visits from family or friends; people who once volunteered their time to read or sit and ...

There is a saying in Trinidad: when steel talks, everybody listens. Peter Harris has had an audience for many years. The Trinidadian was 19 when he played the steel pans for the first time. “It was really beautiful,” he said, explaining how he was wa...

On her 88th birthday, Betty Smith woke to messages on Facebook and WhatsApp. By the end of May 3 she’d received more than 200 phone calls, the most distant came from an old family friend living in South Korea. Although out enjoying the day with her d...