CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia, Jul 6 (CMC) – Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says that while his coun­try is not seek­ing to over­turn the de­ci­sion of re­gion­al lead­ers to reap­point Dr Car­la Bar­nett as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), it re­mains “con­cerned that the ap­proach tak­en has nei­ther re­solved the mat­ter nor pro­mot­ed the spir­it and goals of the Re­vised Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas”.

The Caribbean has a very pow­er­ful cul­tur­al prod­uct, which is not be­ing ful­ly mon­e­tised to the re­gion’s ben­e­fit. Reg­gae mu­sic is in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned, while Trinidad’s Car­ni­val has been ex­port­ed around the world.

LON­DON, Eng­land – De­spite reach­ing the semi­fi­nals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, no play­er from the West In­dies Women’s team was se­lect­ed in the Team of the Tour­na­ment.

Patrick Au­gus­tus Mervyn Man­ning is T&T’s longest-serv­ing prime min­is­ter, and the mag­ni­tude of his tenure and time in pol­i­tics has left an in­deli­ble mark on the na­tion’s po­lit­i­cal land­scape. Ten years af­ter his pass­ing on Ju­ly 2, 2016, his decades of ser­vice as a states­man and leader re­main deeply wo­ven in­to the very fab­ric of this na­tion’s iden­ti­ty.

The re­port­ed de­ci­sion by Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) to re­place Blue Wa­ters prod­ucts on its flights has raised im­por­tant ques­tions that re­quire clear and time­ly an­swers. While com­mer­cial com­pa­nies rou­tine­ly change sup­pli­ers, the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing this de­ci­sion make trans­paren­cy es­pe­cial­ly im­por­tant.