Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day chas­tised the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) for stop­ping the con­struc­tion of the first po­lice post in­tend­ed for use in Gov­ern­ment’s new an­ti-crime ini­tia­tive at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah in Tacarigua.

The un­cer­tain fu­ture of the Hilton Trinidad & Con­fer­ence Cen­tre is fu­elling anx­i­ety across this coun­try’s tourism sec­tor, with tourism of­fi­cials and econ­o­mists warn­ing that de­lays in reach­ing an agree­ment could hurt busi­ness con­fi­dence, tourism plan­ning and the coun­try’s in­ter­na­tion­al rep­u­ta­tion.

Sailor Kel­ly-Ann Ar­rindell earned her­self a sil­ver medal while sprint­er Aaron Charles got bronze as Trinidad and To­ba­go won two more medals when the 2026 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games con­tin­ued in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Thurs­day.

Jineal Chich­ester was halfway across the At­lantic, stand­ing aboard an air­craft car­ri­er bound for Africa as a young naval of­fi­cer in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, when a sin­gle ques­tion changed the course of her life.

“‘C****e’ be­came an eth­nic slur, a re­minder to In­di­ans of me­nial ori­gins and a sub­tle chal­lenge to their claim to be­long.”