Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cre­at­ed po­lit­i­cal his­to­ry once again, win­ning her fourth con­sec­u­tive in­ter­nal lead­er­ship elec­tion since 2010 and do­ing so un­op­posed. The nom­i­na­tion-on­ly vic­to­ry comes just 90 days af­ter she led the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to a land­slide win in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, re­turn­ing the par­ty to gov­ern­ment with a com­mand­ing ma­jor­i­ty.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go marked an his­toric mile­stone this past Fri­day, with the sev­enth an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of Court­Pay, the coun­try’s first na­tion­al on­line pay­ment sys­tem for court-re­lat­ed trans­ac­tions.

LEEDS – A bril­liant cen­tu­ry by Pak­istan’s Kam­ran Ak­mal con­demned West In­dies Cham­pi­ons to their third de­feat in four match­es in the World Cham­pi­onship of Leg­ends, as they went down by 49 run­sin Eng­land on Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 26).

Now, I’m not say­ing rain can’t be dan­ger­ous—it can be. But so is cross­ing the high­way, and peo­ple still do that every day. Hik­ing in the rain just means you have to be smart. That’s all. Hike Club—that’s our lit­tle crew of na­ture-lov­ing fel­las and gyals—knows when and where to go, wet or dry. Over the years, we’ve learned which trails are best for sun, and which ones come alive when the rain falls.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is a coun­try which ex­pe­ri­enced a vast in­flux of im­mi­grants dur­ing the 19th and 20th cen­turies; an­ces­tors came from Africa and In­dia as slaves and in­den­tured labour­ers to work the fer­tile land for the Eu­ro­pean mag­nates.