Patrick Man­ning and Dr Kei­th Row­ley, two Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment prime min­is­ters, were not cut from the same cloth. Their fun­da­men­tal be­liefs, lead­er­ship styles, ideas, poli­cies, gov­er­nance and in­ter­ac­tions with peo­ple were very dif­fer­ent.

To­ba­go plays an in­stru­men­tal role in this coun­try’s eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment, with tourism be­ing a key fac­tor.

Trinidad and To­ba­go wel­comes Mr Phillip Watts as our new Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs—a role filled with both chal­lenge and op­por­tu­ni­ty. At a time when our ath­letes, coach­es, and com­mu­ni­ties yearn for re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion, the coun­try looks to Mr Watts not just as an ad­min­is­tra­tor but as a vi­sion­ary who un­der­stands the im­mense pow­er of sport to unite, up­lift, and trans­form.

“He is one of the coolest peo­ple. What will we do with­out him?” That’s the kind of sen­ti­ment echoed by staff at Sam­ford Uni­ver­si­ty in Al­aba­ma when speak­ing about Caleb Noah John—a young man whose qui­et strength and char­ac­ter left a last­ing im­pact far be­yond the class­room.

The let-down of good gov­er­nance fore­shad­ows the promise to gov­ern wise­ly and with em­pa­thy, which en­tails qual­i­ty-of-life im­prove­ment through vi­able prob­lem res­o­lu­tion in crime, ed­u­ca­tion, health and the econ­o­my.