Debbie Jacob

There is no way to escape grim news. Open the newspapers, switch on the TV or surf the net and you come face to face with this lost world.

In many ways The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden, by Katherine Swift, is one of the most beautiful and one of the most surprising books I have ever read.

I grew up watching 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine, which was so riveting in its delivery of magazine-style news features that even teenagers like me tuned in every Sunday.

There’s nothing like reading a juicy biography—the perfect book club choice, because they provide purposeful gossip about someone’s life, oxymoronic as that is.

Guilty and shocked. That’s how I felt when I read about the “new” science that says it is not a wise idea to keep telling your children how smart they are.

Jay Z and Beyonce’s recent trip to Cuba certainly stirred up a political hornet’s nest in the US.

When Bella, a lovable, four-year-old golden retriever, went to the vet’s office to be spayed, she had no idea that she was about to make canine history in T&T.

The music we listen to reflects our innermost feelings and our relationship with society, and if society does not offer opportunities for jobs and a meaningful life, then music won’t offer narratives