More than a month af­ter a string of break-ins in­to parked cars and rob­beries trig­gered a mul­ti-pronged po­lice re­sponse near the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah and the La­dy Chan­cel­lor Road, St Clair, po­lice and jog­gers have re­port­ed that there has been a no­tice­able de­cline in crime in the area.

Two Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) aca­d­e­mics are warn­ing that as T&T of­fi­cial­ly en­ters the 2026 rainy sea­son, busi­ness­es across the coun­try are once again be­ing re­mind­ed of a grow­ing eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty that cli­mate dis­rup­tion is no longer an oc­ca­sion­al in­con­ve­nience rather it is be­com­ing a per­ma­nent busi­ness risk.

Tian­na Guy had to set­tle for a sil­ver medal against home­town favourite Kather­ine Ve­ras when both women clashed in the 60 kg fi­nal of the La VI Co­pa In­ter­na­cional de Box­eo Regil Ven­tu­ra in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Fri­day night.

Just weeks ago, Joshua Kent had re­signed him­self to miss­ing his school’s grad­u­a­tion din­ner. With his moth­er’s pend­ing surgery and the fam­i­ly al­ready stretched fi­nan­cial­ly, the 18-year-old had pushed the event off the pri­or­i­ty list.

The econ­o­my and vi­o­lent crime were the two is­sues that pow­ered the Gov­ern­ment to a trounc­ing of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment at the polls on April 28, 2025. In fair­ness, we should wait two years to prop­er­ly grade their per­for­mance in these two ar­eas. That’s how bad things got.