One man is dead and two oth­ers are crit­i­cal fol­low­ing a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent in Cunu­pia short­ly af­ter 6 a.m. to­day.

For many house­holds, the test of a na­tion­al Bud­get is not the size of the al­lo­ca­tions or the promis­es made from the par­lia­men­tary podi­um, but how far the salary stretch­es when the bills are paid.

​Sis­ters Aliyah and Is­abel Tou­s­saint each scored nine goals to steer their re­spec­tive schools, Ch­agua­nas South Sec­ondary and Cara­pichaima West Sec­ondary, to com­pre­hen­sive 10-0 vic­to­ries when the ac­tion con­tin­ued on Thurs­day.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brates Ca­lyp­so His­to­ry Month, there is no bet­ter way to be­gin the ob­ser­vance than by pay­ing trib­ute to the “Ca­lyp­so King of the World” Slinger Fran­cis­co - the Mighty Spar­row - who was large­ly re­gard­ed as giv­ing the art­form in­ter­na­tion­al ap­peal and tak­ing it fur­ther on the glob­al stage.

I’m not an ex­pert on ca­lyp­so. I’m a guy who loves mu­sic in all forms and gen­res – from Michael J to Bar­ring­ton Levy to Moloko. I’ve in­stant re­call of the lyrics of hun­dreds… a walk­ing, talk­ing, liv­ing, breath­ing karaoke ma­chine. I’m mar­i­nat­ed in Spar­row’s mu­sic. He wasn’t just of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Grena­da, where he was born in 1935. Birdie left his mark in the Caribbean and well be­yond. More on that short­ly.