As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ap­proach­es its end, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment will bring the con­tro­ver­sial Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion back to Par­lia­ment as part of its post-SoE crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.

T&T In­sur­ance Ltd (Tatil) and Colo­nial Fire & Gen­er­al In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny Ltd (Colfire) are seek­ing to for­mal­ly com­bine their op­er­a­tions through a pro­posed amal­ga­ma­tion that will cre­ate a sin­gle le­gal en­ti­ty from Jan­u­ary 1, 2027, sub­ject to ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank.

Both teams, the Sports Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SPORTT) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), have ex­pressed op­ti­mism that the re­quest­ed fund­ing will be made avail­able to the Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior men’s foot­ball team to par­tic­i­pate in the up­com­ing Con­ca­caf Na­tions League (CNL).

Amid the mod­ern hus­tle of Port of Spain’s trans­for­ma­tion in­to a bustling com­mer­cial hub, Tran­quil­li­ty Methodist Church stands as a sig­nif­i­cant land­mark and a qui­et, en­dur­ing sen­tinel of the city’s past. Nes­tled at the cor­ner of Tra­garete Road and Vic­to­ria Av­enue, the strik­ing ed­i­fice is a phys­i­cal tes­ta­ment to a com­mu­ni­ty’s re­silience and a rich his­to­ry stretch­ing back more than two cen­turies.

The Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion is mov­ing to­wards leg­is­la­tion to hold par­ents ac­count­able for the be­hav­iour of their chil­dren, plac­ing parental re­spon­si­bil­i­ty at the cen­tre of its re­sponse to school vi­o­lence.