An­a­lysts and po­lit­i­cal ob­servers are ex­press­ing con­cern over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion to ab­stain from vot­ing on a Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court.

The Cair­com Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CP­SO) is call­ing for per­ma­nent ex­emp­tions from US mar­itime ser­vice fees for Caribbean ship­ping, warn­ing that any lapse could in­crease freight costs and dis­rupt the move­ment of goods across the re­gion.

On Sat­ur­day on Is­ports, we had to read the shock­ing news that the an­nu­al Sec­ondary Schools Swim Meet—sched­uled for Sun­day—had to be can­celled be­cause the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre was not in a safe con­di­tion for spec­ta­tors, swim­mers, or coach­es.

Grow­ing up in Bar­rack­pore, where his par­ents worked as cane farm­ers, Dr Sharaz Khan learnt ear­ly that suc­cess was not sim­ply about how far one trav­elled in life, but about re­mem­ber­ing where the jour­ney be­gan.

For decades, the T&T trade union move­ment played key roles in de­ter­min­ing the pace and di­rec­tion of na­tion­al so­cial, eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ment.