The New York-based Amer­i­can Foun­da­tion for the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (AFUWI) says that for­mer Ja­maica Am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed States and the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS)  Au­drey Marks, will be among hon­orees for its 28th An­nu­al Schol­ar­ship Awards Gala, The Lega­cy Con­tin­ues, this week in Man­hat­tan.

Res­cue work­ers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rub­ble of a build­ing in Myan­mar’s cap­i­tal on Tues­day, but hope was fad­ing of find­ing many more sur­vivors of the vi­o­lent earth­quake that killed more than 2,700 peo­ple, com­pound­ing a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis caused by a civ­il war.

Arch­bish­op Bar­bara Gray-Burke is pre­pared to op­pose the in­stal­la­tion of Stu­art Young as Prime Min­is­ter to the Privy Coun­cil if she has to.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called on cit­i­zens to learn the his­to­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s on­ly in­dige­nous re­li­gion, stat­ing that the fight for Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day is a sig­nif­i­cant mo­ment in the coun­try’s po­lit­i­cal and so­cial his­to­ry.

In a dis­play of uni­ty and de­vo­tion, more than 1,000 peo­ple dressed in red took to the streets of cen­tral Trinidad, march­ing along Freeport, Todds Road, yes­ter­day. The event, led by Pun­dit Kr­ishen Ramdeen head of the Isha Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T, was a call for har­mo­ny in the Hin­du com­mu­ni­ty.

UNC San Fer­nan­do East can­di­date John Michael Al­i­bo­cas, pop­u­lar­ly known as Makamil­lion, says he will con­tin­ue to serve all con­stituents re­gard­less of their back­ground fol­low­ing claims that he was seen re­cent­ly with peo­ple of ques­tion­able char­ac­ter.

A for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­ber is not ac­tive­ly con­sid­er­ing an in­vi­ta­tion to join the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and con­test the gen­er­al elec­tion un­der the par­ty’s ban­ner.

Es­tate po­lice of­fi­cers and pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty firms say they are hope­ful but hes­i­tant that se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers would be made a pri­or­i­ty if the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) forms the next gov­ern­ment.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ de­ci­sion to re­place Rush­ton Paray with Nicholas Mor­ris to do bat­tle for the Ma­yaro con­stituen­cy has elicit­ed a range of re­ac­tions from con­stituents.

Amid re­cent calls from Hu­man Rights Watch and the Unit­ed Na­tions to ex­pe­dite the repa­tri­a­tion of T&T na­tion­als from Syr­ia, Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says he will re­quest a re­port from the Nizam Mo­hammed-led Repa­tri­a­tion Com­mit­tee on the gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts.

Imam Rasheed Karim of the Masjid-ul-Faaraq in Fe­lic­i­ty, Ch­agua­nas, is call­ing on politi­cians to be hon­est to them­selves and the peo­ple they serve.

The Princes Town con­stituen­cy has a new face for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, as den­tist Dr Aiy­na Ali has been cho­sen by the UNC ex­ec­u­tive to con­test the safe seat.