Cari­com Chair­man Dr Ter­rance Drew has moved to clar­i­fy the process be­hind the reap­point­ment of the Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, fol­low­ing con­cerns raised by Trinidad and To­ba­go over gov­er­nance and pro­ce­dure with­in the re­gion­al body.

Guyana’s Pres­i­dent, Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, is call­ing for a 72-hour meet­ing be­tween the gov­ern­ments of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana to se­ri­ous­ly en­gage in es­tab­lish­ing a strong eco­nom­ic part­ner­ship.

Bren­dan Boodoo struck a com­posed un­beat­en cen­tu­ry to guide Scar­let Blaz­ers to a 60-run vic­to­ry over Cocrico War­riors and se­cure the FI­AL Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) Un­der-19 Cup at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Fri­day.

When Nathan Dur­gas­ingh re­ceived a pair of Guc­ci slides for his 15th birth­day, they were the on­ly gift he got that year. His friend Rhys Thomp­son sur­prised him with them dur­ing a vis­it to South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary, where his moth­er worked in the school cafe­te­ria. He was a fa­mil­iar face, of­ten stop­ping by on his free days to lend a hand. The two quick­ly bond­ed over mu­sic, es­pe­cial­ly drum­ming. Grow­ing up in Laven­tille, Nathan had lit­tle ac­cess to brand-name items, and that act of kind­ness changed his life.

When I was a twen­tysome­thing post­grad­u­ate stu­dent in Jour­nal­ism in the UK, one of my clos­est friends was Pasquale, from Italy. I learned a few things from him… that pas­ta is best added to boil­ing wa­ter and not boiled in wa­ter, and that it is served al dente – hardish, not soft.