Ar­se­nal is back in the Cham­pi­ons League fi­nal for the first time in 20 years thanks to a late first-half goal from Bukayo Sa­ka that se­cured a 1-0 win over Atleti­co Madrid on Tues­day.

For­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance Colm Im­bert has at­trib­uted Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd’s (RBL) re­cent de­ci­sion to in­crease bank­ing fees to ac­tions tak­en by the bank’s new­ly-ap­point­ed board, most of whom were se­lect­ed by the cur­rent Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Derek King has been ap­point­ed coach of the T&T se­nior men’s team on a full-time ba­sis. Mere months af­ter be­ing the in­ter­im re­place­ment for for­mer coach Dwight Yorke, who to part­ed ways with the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion fol­low­ing a dis­as­trous World Cup qual­i­fy­ing cam­paign, the Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee fi­nal­ly made it of­fi­cial.

A shared vi­sion first sparked on an in­ter­na­tion­al stage came to life be­fore a lo­cal au­di­ence when Cari­Carib Dance and Danse4Nia/Phoenix Danse pre­sent­ed Col­lab­o­ra­tion at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, on April 26.

In times gone by, our grand­par­ents and great-grand­par­ents un­der­stood the con­cept of in­vest­ing in land. There were many old­er ones who would al­ways ad­vise that “land don’t rot­ten”.