The world’s coral reefs are run­ning out of time to re­cov­er be­tween in­creas­ing­ly fre­quent ma­rine heat­waves and glob­al bleach­ing events, with cli­mate change dri­ving a long-term de­cline in coral cov­er, a new glob­al as­sess­ment has found.

For­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning’s of­fer to seek the chair­man­ship of the par­ty’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy has been wel­comed by past and present PN­Mites and south­ern­ers.

For­mer PNM min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning’s de­ci­sion to en­ter the po­lit­i­cal fray at this time and seek the San Fer­nan­do East chair­man­ship is strate­gic and well timed, and demon­strates the dri­ven sta­bil­i­ty she rep­re­sent­ed as a min­is­ter and along­side her late hus­band, for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed has said.

Forced out of the class­room for al­most an aca­d­e­m­ic year due to a de­bil­i­tat­ing back in­jury, Bish­op’s High School stu­dent and sprint­er Malique Young has learned that the race is not al­ways for the swift.

For Kirsten-Jade Ram­per­sad, sewing and fash­ion were more than week­end ac­tiv­i­ties. They were ways to clear her mind, recharge and re­fo­cus on her stud­ies, help­ing her ex­cel with eight Grade Ones, each with a Grade A, in her CSEC ex­am­i­na­tions.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has called on politi­cians and the me­dia to stop us­ing race, re­li­gion and cul­ture as tools to di­vide the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

To­ba­go hote­liers are be­ing warned by the Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce to brace for a “rough” Oc­to­ber fol­low­ing a drought warn­ing from the TT Met Of­fice amid dry con­di­tions over the past three months.

Ja­maican dance­hall star Tee­jay (Tim­oy Jones) de­liv­ered one of the night’s most pol­ished per­for­mances at Sat­ur­day’s Sum­mer­Stage con­cert, but the mo­ment that may res­onate longest came af­ter the head­line act, when two of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most close­ly watched Trini­bad artistes shared the stage in a heart-warm­ing dis­play of peace and uni­ty.

For Sab­ri­na Khadoo, the place where she earns a liv­ing is al­so the place she and her 12 chil­dren call home.

Share­hold­ers of An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Lim­it­ed are be­ing urged to vote against the re-elec­tion of a di­rec­tor, with a draft let­ter to share­hold­ers putting the com­pa­ny’s near­ly $1 bil­lion claim against CL Fi­nan­cial Lim­it­ed at the cen­tre of a cor­po­rate gov­er­nance bat­tle ahead of Wednes­day’s An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM).

In the wake of Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd chair­man Kurt Ram­lal’s res­ig­na­tion, one of the en­er­gy com­pa­ny’s dis­missed di­rec­tors, Romel Lal­loo, says the Gov­ern­ment is “im­plod­ing”, with sev­er­al di­rec­tors and se­nior of­fi­cials de­part­ing State boards in re­cent months.

The body of a 45-year-old man was found float­ing at Pi­geon Point beach around mid­day yes­ter­day.