Mem­bers of the pub­lic, road­side ven­dors, and busi­ness own­ers wel­comed a po­lice walk­a­bout in San Juan on Fri­day, but many ex­pressed scep­ti­cism that in­creased vis­i­bil­i­ty alone would curb the cur­rent crime surge.

Jus­tice Rol­ston Nel­son, SC, a re­tired judge of the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), has is­sued a call for re­form in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s le­gal pro­fes­sion, urg­ing at­tor­neys to re­store ci­vil­i­ty and adopt manda­to­ry con­tin­u­ous le­gal ed­u­ca­tion to ad­dress de­clin­ing stan­dards.

More than 1,000 peo­ple have al­ready ex­pressed in­ter­est in plant­i­ng the trop­i­cal ap­ple va­ri­ety de­vel­oped by the late Kenyan in­no­va­tor HP Wambugu—an idea that once seemed im­pos­si­ble for this re­gion.

The Na­tion­al 4-H Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go is pro­mot­ing root crop pro­duc­tion in schools as part of ef­forts to help re­duce the na­tion’s heavy food im­port bill.