Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that a man was beat­en, doused with chem­i­cals, as­sault­ed with a drill and threat­ened with sodomy un­less he paid mon­ey to ex­tor­tion­ists in Tu­na­puna.

East­er re­mains one of the most im­por­tant pe­ri­ods for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, and this year the out­look re­flects strong de­mand across both is­lands.

That’s the re­al­i­ty of the mod­ern game. Big names car­ry big weight. Their words trav­el fast, land hard, and of­ten be­come ac­cept­ed truth be­fore any­one stops to ques­tion them.

De­part­ing US-born UWI De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts (DC­FA) eth­no­mu­si­col­o­gist, Prof Jean­nine Re­my, was treat­ed to a spec­tac­u­lar demon­stra­tion of the in­struc­tion she has de­liv­ered over the years when the UWI Arts Per­cus­sion En­sem­ble paid trib­ute to her on March 28.

To­day, East­er Sun­day, Chris­tians cel­e­brate the mys­tery of the res­ur­rec­tion—a mo­ment when hope shat­tered de­spair and death de­fied. Je­sus Christ, ven­er­at­ed as God by be­liev­ers, sac­ri­ficed him­self to re­deem hu­man­i­ty from sin. To the Jews au­thor­i­ties of his time, his teach­ings were blas­phe­mous. Hailed mock­ing­ly as King of the Jews, he was deemed an ex­is­ten­tial threat to the es­tab­lished re­li­gious or­der and the might of Rome and brand­ed an en­e­my of the state. To this day, with­in Ju­daism, Je­sus is not recog­nised as the de­scen­dant of Abra­ham, and the promised Mes­si­ah, the Son of God, sent to ful­fil the covenant­ed promis­es.