The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has des­ig­nat­ed 21 Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean crim­i­nal groups as “for­eign ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions,” with the lat­est an Ecuado­ri­an group added to the list on Wednes­day.

The name Con­tour Air­lines, not to be con­fused with Ger­man leisure car­ri­er Con­dor Air­lines, prob­a­bly doesn’t ring a bell if you live in the Caribbean. Yet over the past few months, the car­ri­er bet­ter known in the US than in the Caribbean has qui­et­ly been lay­ing the ground­work to be­come a strong com­peti­tor in the re­gion. On Oc­to­ber 5 it will add an­oth­er des­ti­na­tion to its bud­ding Caribbean net­work when it be­gins fly­ing twice week­ly be­tween Trinidad’s Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (POS) and Do­mini­ca’s Dou­glas–Charles Air­port (DOM), with one-stop, same-plane con­nec­tions to St. Thomas (STT) and Puer­to Ri­co (SJU).

This year’s Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion will be called the SS­FL SporTT Boys Pre­mier Di­vi­sion League and will be held in ho­n­our of the for­mer long-stand­ing SS­FL gen­er­al sec­re­tary, Aza­ad Khan.

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.

News head­lines are of­ten dom­i­nat­ed by pol­i­tics, crime, eco­nom­ic chal­lenges and the con­tro­ver­sies of the day. Yet amid these press­ing con­cerns, it is im­por­tant to pause and recog­nise in­sti­tu­tions whose con­tri­bu­tions to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment have en­dured across gen­er­a­tions. Such is the case with the Tran­quil­i­ty Methodist Church, which this year cel­e­brates 120 years of ser­vice.