As the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2027 Bud­get looms on Mon­day, stake­hold­ers are call­ing for speed­i­er im­ple­men­ta­tion of projects.

Pic­ture a fam­i­ly whose mon­ey no longer stretch­es to the end of the month. Food costs more, the light bill has gone up and school ex­pens­es still have to be paid. Find­ing more mon­ey mat­ters. So does ask­ing whether mon­ey is leak­ing out, whether some­thing is sit­ting idle, or whether some­thing the fam­i­ly al­ready owns, or knows how to do, could earn more.

A dogged dis­play, cou­pled with a bit of luck, earned Fa­ti­ma Col­lege a 1-0 vic­to­ry over a bat­tling St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege in the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT) Boys Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) at West­moor­ings on Sat­ur­day (Octiber 10) .

As the world marked World Men­tal Health Day on Sat­ur­day, writer Car­ol Quash took us on an un­ex­pect­ed jour­ney to a cat café, where the com­fort and com­pan­ion­ship of cats are help­ing to cre­ate a safe and wel­com­ing space for peo­ple deal­ing with men­tal health chal­lenges. It is a place where fur­ry friends, con­ver­sa­tion and com­pas­sion come to­geth­er to make a dif­fer­ence.

Slinger Fran­cis­co’s ad­di­tion of qual­i­ty to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment was ahead not on­ly of oth­er ca­lyp­so­ni­ans, but al­so be­yond the ar­tic­u­la­tion of groups of so­cial sci­en­tists, politi­cians, and gov­ern­ments. He picked up the theme ex­pressed by PM Dr Er­ic Williams at In­de­pen­dence: “The fu­ture of the na­tion is in the school bags of our chil­dren.”