While pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­nies, owed an es­ti­mat­ed $75 mil­lion, say some Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) sites had no guards on Fri­day, Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath claims no WASA fa­cil­i­ty was left un­manned.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) yes­ter­day re­flect­ed a World Bank re­port last week that the T&T econ­o­my de­clined by mi­nus 0.5 per cent last year and is pro­ject­ed to ex­pe­ri­ence re­al growth of 0.2 per cent this year.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior net­ball team will not have much of an ac­climi­ti­sa­tion pe­ri­od in neigh­bour­ing Bar­ba­dos, be­fore be­gin­ning their Amer­i­c­as Net­ball World Cup Qual­i­fiers which pass­es off on Mon­day.

Shar­da Patasar has placed Trinidad and To­ba­go on the in­ter­na­tion­al map with her new piece, Au­dac­i­ty of Black Wa­ter. The track is in­clud­ed on Earth Ris­ing, Vol II: Mes­sages from the Pale Blue Dot, part of a three-vol­ume project com­mis­sioned by the UK arts or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ar­tan­gel. Patasar’s work stands out as a rare in­stru­men­tal orig­i­nat­ing from the Caribbean rather than In­dia—and the first sitar com­po­si­tion in the se­ries.

Our an­ces­tors, who left Bi­har, Ut­tar Pradesh and oth­er ar­eas of In­dia over 181 years ago to work as in­den­tured labour­ers, had very few ma­te­r­i­al pos­ses­sions in their ja­ha­ji bun­dle. But their minds and hearts were store­hous­es of their Dhar­ma.