So­cial me­dia is ad­dic­tive. Yes, it’s ad­dic­tive man, un­cle, pops, aun­tie, Mamoo, it’s ad­dic­tive. It’s ad­dic­tive if you de­fine ad­dic­tion as get­ting such a dopamine rush that you feel com­pelled to reach for the cell­phone as soon as you open your eyes in the morn­ing or use your cell­phone for hours at a time. It’s ad­dic­tive for man, woman and child and the ad­dic­tion of the par­ents is a ma­jor part of the prob­lem. How can you ac­knowl­edge that there is some­thing wrong with what your child is do­ing if you are do­ing the ex­act same thing?

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is back in a tough spot. Near­ly two decades af­ter BWIA was re­placed, CAL con­tin­ues to face the same prob­lems. It strug­gles with chron­ic loss­es, po­lit­i­cal de­mands and a dif­fi­cult re­gion­al mar­ket.

Hin­dus be­lieve that ac­tions and life’s oc­cur­rences are but part of cy­cles aimed at spir­i­tu­al em­pow­er­ment and even­tu­al merg­ing with the Supreme God­head. Every year, the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha pub­lish­es Hin­du cal­en­dars de­tail­ing the dates of all re­li­gious events.

Trinidad and To­ba­go may be ge­o­graph­i­cal­ly dis­tant from the cur­rent mil­i­tary hot spots of Ukraine and the Mid­dle East, but glob­al­i­sa­tion has en­sured that we ex­pe­ri­ence the knock-on ef­fects of war.

One of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s most vo­cal cheer­lead­ers on so­cial me­dia agreed with my Face­book-post­ed com­ment that for­mer PM Dr Kei­th Row­ley had crossed a line in­to misog­y­ny in call­ing the PM “a jamette.”

The ear­ly num­bers emerg­ing from the lat­est State of Emer­gency (SoE) of­fer some­thing T&T has not seen in some time: mea­sur­able, across-the-board de­clines in re­port­ed crime. Ac­cord­ing to TTPS Pub­lic In­for­ma­tion Of­fi­cer ASP Owie Rus­sell, near­ly every ma­jor cat­e­go­ry has de­creased when com­pared to the same 21-day pe­ri­od dur­ing the pre­vi­ous SoE.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) first year in Gov­ern­ment and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) first in Op­po­si­tion looms with the an­niver­sary of the April 28, 2025, Gen­er­al Elec­tion, a month off from to­day—and yes­ter­day’s clash­es be­tween both sides in Par­lia­ment showed where each stands.

Since the clo­sure of T&T’s on­ly oil re­fin­ery on No­vem­ber 30, 2018, there has been sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic dis­cus­sion about the Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty and whether the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion took the right de­ci­sion in choos­ing to cease its op­er­a­tions and cre­ate four new state-owned com­pa­nies to re­place Petrotrin.

The present con­flict in Iran tells a fa­mil­iar tale of re­source con­trol and po­lit­i­cal ma­nip­u­la­tion.

In Jan­u­ary 2026, Trinidad and To­ba­go be­came one of on­ly eight coun­tries to en­ter in­to a part­ner­ship with Open AI for Ed­u­ca­tion, seek­ing to strength­en and add ca­pac­i­ty to our schools and uni­ver­si­ties. Chat­G­PT can now be de­ployed through­out our ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem. An en­tire gen­er­a­tion can be AI-lit­er­ate be­fore they en­ter the work force, if ef­fec­tive­ly man­aged.

What may be con­sid­ered the “acid test’ of whether Trinidad and To­ba­go is shap­ing and so­lid­i­fy­ing its for­eign pol­i­cy in its na­tion­al in­ter­est, or whether the Gov­ern­ment of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has aligned it­self com­plete­ly with the Unit­ed States, is now be­fore the na­tion.

It was the late Amer­i­can pres­i­dent Abra­ham Lin­coln who fa­mous­ly said, “A fool has him­self for a lawyer.”