Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has lost his chal­lenge over the method used by the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) to re­in­state fraud charges re­lat­ed to his ve­hi­cle tax ex­emp­tion as a Par­lia­men­tar­i­an.

Ex­port growth, in­ter­na­tion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness and the pow­er of lo­cal en­ter­prise to shape T&T's fu­ture con­verged at the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce's Cham­pi­ons of Busi­ness Awards 2026 on Wednes­day evening, where busi­nesslead­ers, ex­porters and pol­i­cy­mak­ers cel­e­brat­ed com­pa­nies that con­tin­ue to prove that home­grown suc­cess can trans­late in­to glob­al im­pact.

“I nev­er have been in de­spair about the world. I’ve been en­raged by it. You can’t tell the chil­dren there’s no hope.”

Grow­ing up in Bar­rack­pore, where his par­ents worked as cane farm­ers, Dr Sharaz Khan learnt ear­ly that suc­cess was not sim­ply about how far one trav­elled in life, but about re­mem­ber­ing where the jour­ney be­gan.

The de­ci­sion by Amer­i­can vot­ers to hand the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty con­trol of both cham­bers of Con­gress is a sig­nif­i­cant po­lit­i­cal set­back for Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump. For Trinidad and To­ba­go, how­ev­er, the more press­ing ques­tion is whether this shift in Wash­ing­ton will af­fect re­la­tions with our most im­por­tant strate­gic part­ner. The an­swer is yes, though per­haps not in the way many ex­pect.