Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she was grate­ful that no one was hurt dur­ing Sat­ur­day’s mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar fire at the ca­ble yard of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vice of T&T (TSTT) in Laven­tille, say­ing the “reck­less” act was car­ried out by a few gang mem­bers.

Lo­cal con­trac­tor, NH In­ter­na­tion­al (Caribbean), has se­cured a US$243 mil­lion (EC$666 mil­lion) con­tract to ex­pand St Lu­cia’s Hewanor­ra In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, even as con­struc­tion firms T&T con­tin­ue to raise con­cerns about de­layed pay­ments and the slow roll­out of gov­ern­ment projects.

Goal shoot Maikea Bram­ble and cap­tain and goal at­tack Kali­fa Mc­Collin com­bined to great ef­fect to lead Trinidad and To­ba­go's 'Ca­lyp­so Girls’—to a con­vinc­ing 60-51 vic­to­ry over host Bar­ba­dos to bring the cur­tain down on the eight-team Net­ball World Cup Syd­ney 2027 Amer­i­c­as Qual­i­fiers on Mon­day night.

South­ern Trinidad’s for­got­ten his­to­ry is be­ing brought to light through ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search that is un­cov­er­ing ev­i­dence of the lives of In­dige­nous peo­ple, in­den­tured labour­ers and the com­mu­ni­ties they built, while train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lo­cal re­searchers to pre­serve the coun­try’s her­itage.

In a women’s fo­rum, some­one post­ed, “We have a day! Who knew?” and I chuck­led in­ces­sant­ly at the poster’s con­ster­na­tion, made ev­i­dent by the ex­cla­ma­tion marks and the se­lect­ed emo­jis.