Catholic priest Fr An­tho­ny de­V­er­teuil, who was the for­mer prin­ci­pal at St Mary’s Col­lege has now come out pub­licly about the bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent in­volv­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and an­oth­er stu­dent Im­ran Khan, which oc­curred some 33 years ago.

The Cen­tral Bank re­port­ed yes­ter­day that food prices rose by 3.9 per cent in Feb­ru­ary, but core in­fla­tion (which ex­cludes food prices) fell by 0.1 per cent.

Well, since in my last col­umn I con­grat­u­lat­ed the Women Red Force crick­eters on bring­ing home the Re­gion­al Su­per 50 Cup, they’ve in­spired T&T’s hock­ey he­roes. Join me in con­grat­u­lat­ing the Trinidad & To­ba­go un­der-21 men’s hock­ey team on their re­mark­able 3-1 vic­to­ry over Brazil in Bar­ba­dos. That’s right, Brazil – the land of sam­ba, beach­es and tal­ent.

Chut­ney So­ca Monarch and Road March King, Machel Mon­tano is cur­rent­ly in In­dia af­ter re­cov­er­ing from the Trinidad Car­ni­val sea­son. How­ev­er the mu­sic-lov­ing “Monk” made sure to is­sue a list of thank yous across the in­dus­try this week, salut­ing all con­trib­u­tors, col­lab­o­ra­tors, sup­port­ers and fans.

The di­ver­si­ty con­tained in this ge­o­graph­ic space of just 5,128 km2 is a re­mark­able fea­ture strong­ly re­flect­ed in the re­li­gious free­dom that will be on dis­play through­out this long week­end.