Parang singer Su­san Maicoo, renowned for her time­less con­tri­bu­tions to Trinidad and To­ba­go's Christ­mas mu­sic, has passed away at the age of 62. She died on Sun­day ac­cord­ing to rel­a­tives.

The iron and steel plant that was once owned by in­ter­na­tion­al steel gi­ant Arcelor­Mit­tal at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate in Cou­va is still not up and run­ning de­spite hav­ing new own­ers.

Roads are shared spaces where all users – mo­torists, cy­clists, run­ners, and walk­ers – must co­ex­ist har­mo­nious­ly. How­ev­er, con­flicts of­ten arise due to dif­fer­ing speeds, per­cep­tions of road own­er­ship, and a lack of aware­ness or con­sid­er­a­tion for oth­ers. Fail­ing to cul­ti­vate mu­tu­al re­spect has led to count­less ac­ci­dents and fa­tal­i­ties world­wide. In 2023, Texas re­port­ed 914 traf­fic-re­lat­ed deaths in­volv­ing bi­cy­clists and pedes­tri­ans, mark­ing a 22% in­crease for pedes­tri­ans and a 58% rise for cy­clists since 2019. This alarm­ing trend prompt­ed the Texas De­part­ment of Trans­porta­tion to launch the “Be Safe. Dri­ve Smart” cam­paign to pro­mote mu­tu­al vig­i­lance and ad­her­ence to road rules among all road users. https://www.dai­lytele­graph.com.au/sub­scribe/news/1/?

Dance is of­ten de­scribed as an art form that tran­scends bound­aries and trans­forms lives. For Zi­dane Roop­nar­ine, it did just that—lead­ing him all the way to Bei­jing, Chi­na.

It has been a busy week. First, the res­ig­na­tion of the Prime Min­is­ter, the ap­point­ment of his re­place­ment, and a Cab­i­net reshuf­fle. There was bare­ly time to warm a min­is­te­r­i­al chair as the gen­er­al elec­tion date came the next day and a se­ries of pro­nounce­ments there­after.