The fran­tic search for a miss­ing tod­dler in To­ba­go turned in­to frus­tra­tion and anger yes­ter­day as ten­sions flared.

The lo­cal dis­trib­u­tors and mar­ket­ing team for Rude Boy has clar­i­fied that it had noth­ing to do with a con­tro­ver­sial bill­board which was re­cent­ly on dis­play in Kingston, Ja­maica.

T&T’s Dy­lan Carter con­tin­ued his prepa­ra­tions for the up­com­ing Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games with a com­fort­able win in the men’s 50m freestyle fi­nal at the Welling­ton Long Course Meet host­ed by Welling­ton Swim­ming and The Vil­lage of Welling­ton at the Welling­ton Aquat­ic Com­plex in Welling­ton, Flori­da, on Sat­ur­day, May 9.

Glob­al­ly, an es­ti­mat­ed one mil­lion plas­tic bot­tles are pur­chased every minute. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, many of them even­tu­al­ly end up in drains, rivers and land­fills—fu­elling the flood­ing night­mare res­i­dents know all too well dur­ing the rainy sea­son.

As doc­tors, one of the sim­plest ques­tions we ask pa­tients can al­so be one of the most im­por­tant: “Are there any ill­ness­es that run in the fam­i­ly? Many peo­ple an­swer quick­ly, of­ten with­out re­al­is­ing how much in­for­ma­tion that sin­gle con­ver­sa­tion can pro­vide.