The Ro­mans may not have had phys­i­ol­o­gy text­books, blood gas analy­sis or in­ten­sive care units, but they un­der­stood some­thing grim­ly prac­ti­cal about the hu­man body: if you sus­pend a man by his arms, stretch his chest open, wound him deeply, drain his blood and leave him ex­posed, breath­ing it­self be­comes a form of tor­ture.

This East­er, we pause to re­mem­ber the great­est act of love the world has ever known, the sac­ri­fice of our Lord and Sav­iour, Je­sus Christ. We re­flect on the cru­ci­fix­ion, the agony of the cross, the si­lence of the tomb, and the tri­umph of the Res­ur­rec­tion. It is a sto­ry that has echoed through gen­er­a­tions, not mere­ly as his­to­ry, but as truth, un­chang­ing, un­com­pro­mis­ing and eter­nal.

I have writ­ten many ar­ti­cles about my autis­tic nephew, Rahul, and told his sto­ry count­less times. Yet, I still feel the need to speak about him, per­haps be­cause his sto­ry is not fin­ished, or be­cause I con­tin­ue to meet too many par­ents who love their chil­dren deeply but are strug­gling in si­lence and afraid of the world’s cru­el­ty.

Med­i­cine is, by its na­ture, a se­ri­ous pro­fes­sion. We deal in di­ag­noses, dif­fi­cult de­ci­sions and mo­ments that can change lives. Much of my day is spent think­ing care­ful­ly and car­ry­ing the weight of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty that comes with car­ing for pa­tients.

In March, I took note when the Los An­ge­les Coun­ty Su­pe­ri­or Court ju­ry ruled against Meta and Google for neg­li­gence that con­tributed to a young adult’s men­tal health cri­sis. The case was dubbed a so­cial me­dia ad­dic­tion law­suit. The plain­tiff’s lawyers ar­gued that the com­pa­nies were guilty of neg­li­gence be­cause their In­sta­gram and YouTube plat­forms had ad­dic­tive fea­tures, in­suf­fi­cient warn­ings, and caused “sub­stan­tial harm.”

Over the week­end, there was a sport­ing com­pe­ti­tion at a pub­lic sport­ing com­plex/park where I usu­al­ly walk on ear­ly morn­ings or af­ter­noons. As I was dri­ving by, I could see the stands filled with cheer­ing peo­ple and count­less oth­ers on the foot­ball field, where the com­pe­ti­tion was un­der­way. I was pleased to see the space ac­tu­al­ly be­ing used, giv­en the con­sid­er­able sums that were spent to fix and up­grade it sev­er­al years ago.

There is a dan­ger­ous il­lu­sion in T&T that work­ers are pro­tect­ed, as on pa­per, and the In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions Act (IRA) stands as a proud pil­lar of fair­ness. The In­dus­tri­al Court is well re­spect­ed, its judges ex­pe­ri­enced, and its rul­ings are of­ten thought­ful and ground­ed in eq­ui­ty. Trade unions re­main vo­cal, or­gan­ised and deeply em­bed­ded in the strug­gle for jus­tice.

“Tec­n­i­mont award­ed a US$50 mil­lion con­tract in Trinidad and To­ba­go,” pro­claims the web­site for the MAIRE Ital­ian en­gi­neer­ing group. It goes on to say that the award is for a “re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion study” for the “Guaracara Re­fin­ery com­plex.” If true, it’s a shock­er. It does not re­veal if the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go award­ed the con­tract, but who else could? That’s not just an equiv­a­lent of TT$340 mil­lion; it was quot­ed in the scarcest of forex cur­ren­cies. Fur­ther, how can they have ex­ten­sive ac­cess to the fa­cil­i­ty to con­duct their “re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion study” with­out Gov­ern­ment ap­proval?

Athana­sius was born in North Africa and is eas­i­ly the most im­por­tant per­son in Chris­t­ian his­to­ry af­ter the Apos­tle Paul. In 328 AD, at the young age of 30, Athana­sius was ap­point­ed Bish­op of Alexan­dria, one of the most im­por­tant po­si­tions in an­cient Chris­tian­i­ty.

There is grow­ing alarm over the un­clear endgame in the US/Is­rael-Iran war. While the US and Is­rael con­trol the skies, this does not stop Iran’s mis­siles or its in­flu­ence over the Strait of Hor­muz. The cam­paign was ex­pect­ed to show­case US mil­i­tary su­prema­cy. Iran has re­spond­ed with an asym­met­ric war of at­tri­tion aimed at neu­tral­is­ing US mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal pow­er, de­stroy­ing fa­cil­i­ties in sur­round­ing states hous­ing US bases. More than 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas, and over 30 per cent of petro­chem­i­cal in­puts for many in­dus­tri­al and fer­tilis­er ap­pli­ca­tions, must pass through the Strait. This en­ables Iran to pres­sure fi­nan­cial mar­kets and the glob­al econ­o­my by lim­it­ing ship­ping.

On March 25, 2026, the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly adopt­ed a res­o­lu­tion for­mal­ly deem­ing the transat­lantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against hu­man­i­ty.” The res­o­lu­tion was tabled by Ghana’s Pres­i­dent John Dra­mani Ma­hama /Boateng on be­half of the African Union and, ac­cord­ing to DeepSeek, in­cludes the fol­low­ing key points/calls to ac­tion:

To­mor­row, Palm Sun­day, is the sixth and fi­nal Sun­day of Lent; the day when Chris­tians en­ter in­to Holy Week; the day when we com­mem­o­rate Je­sus’ tri­umphal en­try in­to Jerusalem. This event is men­tioned in each of the four canon­i­cal Gospels—Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-44; and John 12:12-19.