The Youth Train­ing and Em­ploy­ment Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme (YTEPP) Lim­it­ed is ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for greater col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na in youth de­vel­op­ment, tech­ni­cal train­ing and work­force readi­ness.

A grow­ing gov­er­nance con­tro­ver­sy at Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) has placed the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned com­pa­ny un­der in­tense scruti­ny, over­shad­ow­ing its strongest fi­nan­cial per­for­mance in 17 years.

The coach coached, the man­ag­er han­dled team arrange­ments, the doc­tor and physio dealt with in­juries, the train­er warmed up the team, and sup­port­ing ad­min­is­tra­tors worked from their own cor­ners.

As a teenag­er, I once vis­it­ed the girl­friend at home. The par­ents lurked close by, and the TV vol­ume was sus­pi­cious­ly low. It was bare­ly past 8 pm when her grand­moth­er be­gan loud­ly clos­ing the win­dows, and mur­mur­ing that it was late. I recog­nised a cue to leave when I heard one.