Cris­tiano Ronal­do be­came the first play­er to score in six dif­fer­ent World Cup tour­na­ments on Tues­day, get­ting a goal in the sixth minute of Por­tu­gal’s match against Uzbek­istan.

A lo­cal tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny is bet­ting that ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence can help solve one of the Caribbean’s most per­sis­tent eco­nom­ic chal­lenges: the lack of fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy among work­ers and house­holds.

En­dem­ic cor­rup­tion. En­dem­ic im­puni­ty. Emp­ty promis­es. There is no ac­count­abil­i­ty. There is a men­tal­i­ty that peo­ple can do what­ev­er they want, in­clud­ing mis­man­ag­ing and es­sen­tial­ly em­bez­zling pub­lic funds. Crit­i­cisms and ac­cu­sa­tions of fraud, mis­man­age­ment, and mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of funds have plagued lo­cal sports for years; ac­count­abil­i­ty cam­paigns de­mand­ing an­swers to the where­abouts of mil­lions of dol­lars go un­heed­ed and un­pun­ished. Cor­po­rate spon­sors have called for ac­count­abil­i­ty, and in the ab­sence of any se­ri­ous ef­fort to ad­dress their con­cerns, they sim­ply walk away. Lost in the cul­ture of “sweep it un­der the car­pet” and ride out the im­me­di­ate out­rage is the idea of “Pe­ter pay­ing for Paul.” Paul pays for all sce­nar­ios. The sport or­ga­ni­za­tions that are metic­u­lous about do­ing the right thing and prop­er­ly ac­count­ing pay the price. They strug­gle to get or re­tain spon­sors. Even at the lev­el of the Min­istry of Sport and Sport Com­pa­ny, the small fry car­ry the bur­den. The big guns ap­pear to get away with mur­der and still get fund­ing. The play­ing field is not lev­el.

Fa­thers of­ten share spe­cial bonds with their chil­dren. For 80-year-old Chanka Ram­rat­tan, that bond is a shared love for fit­ness and ex­er­cise with his 46-year-old son Nari.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s 2027 Bud­get stands as one of the most am­bi­tious fis­cal pack­ages in re­cent years. Framed un­der the theme “Re­sults-Based Gov­er­nance: A Path­way to Pros­per­i­ty,” it seeks to move be­yond tra­di­tion­al spend­ing pat­terns and place mea­sur­able out­comes at the cen­tre of pub­lic pol­i­cy. The key ques­tion is whether this bold vi­sion can be trans­lat­ed in­to tan­gi­ble re­sults.