Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that a man was beat­en, doused with chem­i­cals, as­sault­ed with a drill and threat­ened with sodomy un­less he paid mon­ey to ex­tor­tion­ists in Tu­na­puna.

East­er re­mains one of the most im­por­tant pe­ri­ods for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, and this year the out­look re­flects strong de­mand across both is­lands.

That’s the re­al­i­ty of the mod­ern game. Big names car­ry big weight. Their words trav­el fast, land hard, and of­ten be­come ac­cept­ed truth be­fore any­one stops to ques­tion them.

T&T pro­duc­er and singer-song­writer Kur­tis “Lon­don Fu­ture” Wells feels grate­ful and ec­sta­t­ic af­ter work­ing with Ko­re­an megas­tars BTS. He co-wrote two songs on their lat­est al­bum, ARI­RANG.

I have al­ways been a rough cus­tomer. At the age of ten, I vowed to kill a man. This man was my Un­cle Sabee, my fa­ther’s boat-own­ing fish­ing bud­dy. My fa­ther had been in a Volk­swa­gen car, fol­low­ing Un­cle Sabee to see him off at the air­port. On the Mc Bean Stretch, a truck lost its wheel, col­lid­ed with the Volk­swa­gen, killed Un­cle Sabee’s moth­er, who was in the back seat, and se­ri­ous­ly in­jured my fa­ther. When I saw my fa­ther’s red-stained shirt ar­rive at my grand­moth­er’s home, so en­raged, hor­ri­fied, torn I was, I shout­ed, “I go kill Sabee Un­cle!”