Once de­scribed as the right-hand man of La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro MP Fos­ter Cum­mings, Phillip Watts emerged as the MP’s po­lit­i­cal ri­val as he walked the con­stituen­cy wear­ing a dark blue jer­sey with yel­low stripes and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress lo­go on his chest.

More chaos erupt­ed in Sea Lots yes­ter­day as ten­sions es­ca­lat­ed, with res­i­dents of Pi­o­neer Dri­ve claim­ing they were fired up­on by po­lice of­fi­cers while try­ing to erect a bar­ri­cade for pro­tec­tion against peo­ple liv­ing on Pro­duc­tion Dri­ve.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) Chris Dehring has con­grat­u­lat­ed the Trinidad & To­ba­go Red Force Di­vas on win­ning the CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per50 Cup 2025 af­ter an ex­cit­ing tour­na­ment in St. Kitts.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Air­lines Flight MH370, a Boe­ing 777 with 239 peo­ple on board, van­ished dur­ing a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Bei­jing, set­ting off a mas­sive and ul­ti­mate­ly un­suc­cess­ful search.

Nel­son Man­dela once said, “It al­ways seems im­pos­si­ble un­til it is done.” As I re­flect on my nine-year tenure as Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the Com­mon­wealth, I find deep truth in these words. 

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Phillip Watts is now the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ can­di­date for the con­stituen­cy and will be con­test­ing against in­cum­bent PNM MP Fos­ter Cum­mings in the forth­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Some know it as “piko,” “marelles,” “hinkel­baan,” or “stapu,” but in T&T, hop­scotch is a word that un­locks a world of child­hood mem­o­ries. One Wood­brook woman is striv­ing to turn that mem­o­ry in­to an every­day ac­tiv­i­ty. 

As T&T cel­e­brates In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day to­day, prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young is promis­ing tougher penal­ties for do­mes­tic vi­o­lence of­fend­ers and im­me­di­ate ac­tion to pro­tect women.

Con­sid­er­a­tion is be­ing giv­en to amend­ing the reg­u­la­tions for the Hin­du Mar­riage Act to in­clude a woman’s oc­cu­pa­tion on mar­riage cer­tifi­cates and oth­er as­so­ci­at­ed doc­u­ments.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s re­turn to T&T to­mor­row (Sun­day) will spark a flur­ry of po­lit­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties, cul­mi­nat­ing with the pre­sen­ta­tion of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­dates next Sun­day, when Row­ley’s res­ig­na­tion will al­so be con­firmed—and a gen­er­al elec­tion date is ex­pect­ed soon af­ter.

Sea Lots res­i­dents from Pi­o­neer Dri­ve and Pro­duc­tion Av­enue are blam­ing one an­oth­er for the on­go­ing ten­sions in the area.  

More than six years af­ter the clo­sure of the Guaracara Re­fin­ery, res­i­dents and busi­ness own­ers in fence­line com­mu­ni­ties are fi­nal­ly see­ing a glim­mer of hope for, what they say, would be a bet­ter qual­i­ty of life.