The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has for­mal­ly di­rect­ed the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to hold on the award of TT$3.4 bil­lion in hous­ing con­tracts pend­ing a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of pro­cure­ment pro­ceed­ings.

T&T is emerg­ing as a crit­i­cal hub in Philip Mor­ris In­ter­na­tion­al’s (PMI) shift to­wards smoke-free prod­ucts, po­si­tion­ing the coun­try at the cen­tre of a re­gion­al tran­si­tion that could re­shape dis­tri­b­u­tion net­works, in­vest­ment flows, and reg­u­la­to­ry pri­or­i­ties across the Caribbean.

Goal­keep­er and cap­tain Jerusha Des Vi­gnes and goal-de­fence Ke­lis Find­ley was ruth­less on de­fence for Team T&T (TTO) in their third match of the Jean Pierre Caribbean Youth Net­ball Tour­na­ment. They held op­po­nent Do­mini­ca to a soli­tary goal in the sec­ond half to emerge with a mas­sive 44-9 win on Tues­day night.

The sound of prayer, the rhythm of an­cient chants, and the qui­et sym­bol­ism of rit­u­al marked a sa­cred time for mem­bers of the Ethiopi­an Or­tho­dox Tewa­he­do Church in Trinidad and To­ba­go, as they ob­served Holy Week with cer­e­monies steeped in cen­turies-old tra­di­tion.

A cus­tomer’s first in­ter­ac­tion with a busi­ness is a pre­view of com­ing at­trac­tions. It re­veals whether the busi­ness pays care­ful or care­less at­ten­tion to re­spect­ing the cus­tomer’s time.