The Trans­port Min­istry, which will very soon launch a road safe­ty cam­paign, is al­so work­ing on in­tro­duc­ing a check­ered band maxi taxi sys­tem pro­vid­ing reg­u­lat­ed pub­lic trans­port to un­der­served rur­al com­mu­ni­ties.

bpTT has moved to pause its Kanikon­na project—a planned sub­sea nat­ur­al gas de­vel­op­ment project lo­cat­ed off the south­east coast of T&T—as it sharp­ens its fo­cus on ad­vanc­ing the sanc­tioned Man­akin-Cocuina cross-bor­der gas de­vel­op­ment, a de­ci­sion that un­der­scores both cap­i­tal dis­ci­pline and the ur­gency of boost­ing gas sup­ply in the Colum­bus Basin.

Nu-Iron Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) I capped a dom­i­nant do­mes­tic sea­son by com­plet­ing the dou­ble on Sat­ur­day night, lift­ing the T&T Crick­et Board/Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TTCB/TKR) Trinidad T20 Fes­ti­val crown at Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, to add to the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion League ti­tle they se­cured ear­li­er this year.

The hid­den truth of our lives is of­ten framed as a de­c­la­ra­tion to leave the past in the past, but this was not the case for An­cil Rooplal, a Vi­su­al Arts Sec­ondary School art teacher who used the can­vas to un­earth his past.

Pub­lic pro­cure­ment is where pub­lic mon­ey meets pri­vate in­ter­est. It de­cides who gets con­tracts, who gets op­por­tu­ni­ties, who ben­e­fits from State land and whether cit­i­zens re­ceive val­ue for mon­ey or an­oth­er ex­pen­sive promise wrapped in se­cre­cy.