Some teach­ers across the coun­try have start­ed to re­ceive the long-await­ed $900 mil­lion in back­pay.

Caribbean en­tre­pre­neurs need more than pitch com­pe­ti­tions and short-term pro­grammes if the re­gion is se­ri­ous about pro­duc­ing com­pa­nies ca­pa­ble of cre­at­ing jobs, at­tract­ing in­vest­ment and di­ver­si­fy­ing their economies.

Adam Chung of Queen's Park Crick Club (QPCC) and Cam­ron Adam­son of Po­lice both scored hat-tricks to lead their re­spec­tive clubs to com­fort­able wins when the T&T Hock­ey Board In­door Cham­pi­onships flicked off with men's Trin­i­ty Di­vi­sion match­es at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night.

Wa­ter­sports are for every­one. It’s a mes­sage for­mer na­tion­al free­d­iv­ing record-hold­er and speech-lan­guage pathol­o­gist Shiv­ani Gob­erd­han helped spread across Hawaii, which she has brought back to her home coun­try. Now based in To­ba­go, she’s cham­pi­oning and as­sist­ing with the in­volve­ment of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties in some of her favourite dis­ci­plines.

Rad­i­cal Un­cer­tain­ty is the ti­tle of a book au­thored by two Eng­lish econ­o­mists, Sir John Hay and Mervyn King, a for­mer Gov­er­nor of the Bank of Eng­land. The book fo­cus­es on us­ing quan­ti­ta­tive mod­els, big da­ta, and al­go­rith­mic pre­dic­tions in eco­nom­ics, fi­nance, and pub­lic pol­i­cy. The au­thors ar­gue that the cur­rent ten­den­cy to use sta­tis­ti­cal prob­a­bil­i­ty mod­els to project out­comes may work well for small sys­tems but fails when ap­plied to the messy, non-lin­ear re­al­i­ties of hu­man his­to­ry, eco­nom­ics, and ma­jor life choic­es.