De­spite height­ened ac­tiv­i­ty af­ter the Pi­paro mud vol­cano erupt­ed yes­ter­day, no res­i­dents were evac­u­at­ed.

For­mer MP Rush­ton Paray says while he un­der­stands the frus­ta­tion that has dri­ven the call by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce for a mar­ket-dri­ven ex­change rate, he has warned that the low­er class will take the longest and most sig­nif­i­cant hit if such a mea­sure is in­tro­duced.

The lo­cal bas­ket­ball fra­ter­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the pass­ing of Earl Skeete, a dec­o­rat­ed for­mer play­er, coach and Team man­ag­er who ded­i­cat­ed over four decades to the de­vel­op­ment of the sport in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Lead­ers from busi­ness, law, me­dia, pub­lic health, and na­tion­al gov­er­nance gath­ered on De­cem­ber 4 at Fa­nat­ic Kitchen Stu­dio, Mar­aval, to cel­e­brate a ma­jor mile­stone in the ca­reer of com­mu­ni­ca­tions strate­gist Lisa-Ann Joseph, ho­n­our­ing her 18 years as a con­sul­tant and 33 years shap­ing rep­u­ta­tion and cri­sis man­age­ment across the Caribbean.

Every year, Box­ing Day ar­rives with fa­mil­iar rit­u­als: the joy­ful noise of chil­dren play­ing with new toys, moth­ers find­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to fin­ish left­over food, oth­ers emerg­ing from a “food co­ma” to rest and re­cu­per­ate, en­er­getic per­sons ex­tend­ing the Christ­mas lime at the beach, riv­er or friends’ homes, while bar­gain hunters rush out ear­ly to par­tic­i­pate in Box­ing Day sales.