The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is mourn­ing the pass­ing of Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor Bald­win Mootoo, a pi­o­neer­ing aca­d­e­m­ic whose ca­reer was deeply wo­ven in­to the in­sti­tu­tion’s his­to­ry and growth.

Two Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) aca­d­e­mics are warn­ing that as T&T of­fi­cial­ly en­ters the 2026 rainy sea­son, busi­ness­es across the coun­try are once again be­ing re­mind­ed of a grow­ing eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty that cli­mate dis­rup­tion is no longer an oc­ca­sion­al in­con­ve­nience rather it is be­com­ing a per­ma­nent busi­ness risk.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – One of Bar­ba­dos’ great­est ever body­builders, Al­bert ‘Al’ Beck­les, has died at the age of 95.

From sand­board­ing down the side of a dor­mant Nicaraguan vol­cano to tak­ing self­ies with seals in Pe­ru, Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al An­dros Bel­fonte has lived a life that many on­ly dream of.

Once again, and not sur­pris­ing­ly, al­le­ga­tions have been made of cor­rup­tion in the award of mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar Gov­ern­ment con­tracts.