The fu­ner­al ser­vice for vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Broth­er Valenti­no will take place on Thurs­day, Oc­to­ber 29, at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­moved cer­tain pow­ers from the Pres­i­dent, un­der the For­eign In­vest­ment Act, and as­signed them to Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo.

Liselle John­son, head coach of the Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior women’s net­ball team – dubbed the ‘Ca­lyp­so Girls’ – is con­fi­dent of her team con­tin­u­ing its win­ning streak when the eight-team Net­ball World Cup Syd­ney 2027 Amer­i­c­as Qual­i­fiers re­sume on Fri­day at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Com­plex, Bridgetown, St Michael, Bar­ba­dos.

When a tow­er­ing moko jumbie slow­ly danced down the aisle at Crown Point Beach Ho­tel in To­ba­go, Ja­maican en­tre­pre­neur Michael Robin­son ex­pe­ri­enced some­thing he had not an­tic­i­pat­ed on his wed­ding day.

Not sim­ply about to­mor­row, but about where we will be in five years if the chal­lenges con­fronting our na­tion re­main un­re­solved. Be­neath po­lit­i­cal de­bate, of­fi­cial as­sur­ances and promis­es of bet­ter days, a qui­et anx­i­ety is grow­ing among or­di­nary cit­i­zens.