Traf­fic light tim­ing at Dock Road near the Hy­att Re­gency along the west­bound lane of Wright­son Road is be­ing blamed for ma­jor traf­fic con­ges­tion dur­ing peak hours.

Rat­ing agency Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices (Cari­CRIS) has reaf­firmed the sov­er­eign is­suer cred­it rat­ings as­signed to the Gov­ern­ment of The Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (GORTT) of Cari­AA (for­eign and lo­cal cur­ren­cy rat­ings) on its re­gion­al rat­ing scale.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) is mourn­ing the loss of Sean Roach, a com­mit­ted sup­port­er of na­tion­al ath­letes and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Langston Roach In­dus­tries Lim­it­ed, who passed away on Mon­day morn­ing at the age of 46.

It was sup­posed to be just an­oth­er rou­tine flight. In­stead, a ter­ror at­tack on Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 end­ed with 73 lives lost and a re­gion left in shock. As the Caribbean mourned, Trinidad and To­ba­go leapt in­to ac­tion – un­rav­el­ling the plot, ex­pos­ing the per­pe­tra­tors and lead­ing the charge for jus­tice.

In last week’s Tues­day T&T Guardian, I wrote about the de­ci­sions by many coun­tries to lim­it the time chil­dren spend on screens and smart­phones both in­side and out­side the ed­u­ca­tion­al sys­tem, but that have prob­a­bly come too late to save the dam­aged minds of chil­dren who used the de­vices to ex­cess for the last ten years.