Author: Gabrielle Hosein

Dr Gabrielle Hosein TODAY, November 20, is World Children’s Day or Universal Children’s Day. This was the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. On the same day in 1989, it adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Approaching the world as if […]

WE ARE in a deep crisis rooted in our current ideal of dominant and violent masculinity. This is not an attack on individual men. It does not mean that all men and boys are invested in this ideal. Rather, it is a naming of the gendered ideas around which our society is organised, and their […]

Dr Gabrielle Jamela Hosein ZIYA JUST returned from the Carifta Triathlon, Aquathlon and Mixed-Relay Championships where regional youth competed in Barbados. Having entered the world of competitive sports less than a year ago, she has met teenagers on TT’s national triathlon team and seen the performance of medallists from other nations, who are swimming, running, […]

Dr Gabrielle Jamela Hosein SCIENTISTS continue to make unexpected discoveries in the ocean, including on the ocean floor. For example, in the past two weeks the global press has been covering the publication of findings of “dark oxygen” in the Pacific Ocean. This is oxygen produced in complete darkness about 4,000 metres below the ocean […]