This year’s In­de­pen­dence Day fire­works dis­play will be com­plete­ly silent, but of­fi­cials promise the cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tions lead­ing up to it will be loud, vi­brant and pa­tri­ot­ic.

The Min­istry of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs (ML­LA) and the Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) to ac­cel­er­ate the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s land-re­lat­ed sys­tems and ser­vices.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two-time Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott will be hop­ing to put an end to a run of five ma­jor events with­out a podi­um fin­ish when he lines up in the ten-man field for the men’s javelin fi­nal at the 14th leg of the Wan­da Di­a­mond League Thursday (Au­gust 27) at Weltk­lasse Zürich.

More than a cen­tu­ry ago, in the streets of Port-of-Spain, peo­ple seek­ing re­lief from ill­ness could find them­selves mov­ing be­tween worlds.

In­de­pen­dence week is an ide­al time to in­vite cit­i­zens to em­brace a broad­er sense of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and a deep­er per­spec­tive on na­tion-build­ing and na­tion­al iden­ti­ty.