A fresh dis­pute has erupt­ed be­tween the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al—de­spite both sides sign­ing off on a ten per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants on Tues­day.

Through­out his­to­ry, the struc­tur­al eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion of so­ci­eties has de­pend­ed on am­bi­tious pro­grammes of pub­lic and pri­vate in­vest­ment. The chal­lenge is that the glob­al track record has not been good in project se­lec­tion and ex­e­cu­tion. T&T has its fair share of aban­doned or sig­nif­i­cant­ly de­layed and over­bud­get projects over the last 25 years which in­clude: the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Wa­ter­front Project, Tamana In­tec Park, Beetham Waste­water Project, Cou­va Med­ical Fa­cil­i­ty, Uni­ver­si­ty Of The West In­dies South Cam­pus (Pe­nal/Debe), Mo­tor Ve­hi­cle Au­thor­i­ty, Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal, Pe­nal Fire Sta­tion, Shi­va Boys’ & Par­vati Girls’ Hin­du Col­leges (Pe­nal), Ca­roni fu­el fa­cil­i­ty, Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um, Red House re­fur­bish­ment, Solomon Ho­choy high­way ex­ten­sion to Point Fortin and the Pres­i­dent’s Cot­tage.

De­fence Force earned a berth at the 2026 Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup, de­spite a 2-1 loss to Cibao FC of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in San­to Domin­go on Tues­day evening.

Known for his in­no­v­a­tive work, Nevin Roach, of Low­lands, To­ba­go, has of­fi­cial­ly com­plet­ed his Mas­ter’s de­gree in IT Man­age­ment from IU In­ter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences, Ger­many.

Re­mote work has al­ways ex­ist­ed and been utilised in mod­ern years. How­ev­er, since the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, it has re­mained wide­ly adopt­ed across the world. It is with­out doubt that re­mote work is ex­treme­ly con­ve­nient, es­pe­cial­ly amongst glob­al and re­gion­al com­pa­nies that utilise for­eign work­ers. It pos­sess­es ben­e­fits such as flex­i­bil­i­ty, re­duced emis­sions and op­por­tu­ni­ties for phys­i­cal­ly dis­abled per­sons to ac­quire work.