The ar­rest of a 15-year-old To­ba­go school­boy on a pos­si­ble cap­i­tal charge over the week­end has left Ed­u­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Or­lan­do Kerr con­cerned and res­i­dents of the Ply­mouth com­mu­ni­ty wor­ried about the teenag­er’s fu­ture.

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US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s move to take con­trol of 65 mil­lion bar­rels of Venezue­lan oil could cre­ate an un­ex­pect­ed open­ing for Trinidad and To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the long-stalled Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go mixed mar­tial arts team left on Sep­tem­ber 6 for Bo­gotá. Colom­bia, to com­pete at the 2026 Glob­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Mixed Mar­tial Arts (GAM­MA) Pan-Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onships, which be­gins to­day and con­tin­ues un­til Septem­ber 13.

Amid the mod­ern hus­tle of Port of Spain’s trans­for­ma­tion in­to a bustling com­mer­cial hub, Tran­quil­li­ty Methodist Church stands as a sig­nif­i­cant land­mark and a qui­et, en­dur­ing sen­tinel of the city’s past. Nes­tled at the cor­ner of Tra­garete Road and Vic­to­ria Av­enue, the strik­ing ed­i­fice is a phys­i­cal tes­ta­ment to a com­mu­ni­ty’s re­silience and a rich his­to­ry stretch­ing back more than two cen­turies.

The last time we met Smokey, he tried to re­vive the Lib­er­al Piper Par­ty by brib­ing Small Pin to protest sex toys out­side Par­lia­ment. The protest was good for a news­pa­per head­line, but he was back to be­ing the po­lit­i­cal va­grant of Trinidad and To­ba­go.