A trade union leader yes­ter­day called on Gov­ern­ment to keep the promis­es it made dur­ing the cam­paign trail and al­so chal­lenged oth­er union lead­ers, whom he said had lost their way, to stand with work­ers or step aside, warn­ing that sol­i­dar­i­ty could not be prac­tised on­ly when con­ve­nient.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says T&T is on the verge of sign­ing a key agree­ment with Venezuela that can pave the way to boost nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion and fur­ther re­vive this coun­try’s en­er­gy sec­tor.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s four-man men's 3x3 bas­ket­ball con­tin­gent, com­pris­ing Tyrik Zwade Singh, Ja­son Josi­ah Fri­day, Tyrese Fields, and Je­lani Mic­ah Val­ley, staged a hero­ic ef­fort on Thurs­day to top Qual­i­fy­ing Draw C at the FI­BA 3x3 Amer­iCup in El Sal­vador.

South­ern Trinidad’s for­got­ten his­to­ry is be­ing brought to light through ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search that is un­cov­er­ing ev­i­dence of the lives of In­dige­nous peo­ple, in­den­tured labour­ers and the com­mu­ni­ties they built, while train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lo­cal re­searchers to pre­serve the coun­try’s her­itage.

A gov­ern­ment elect­ed by the peo­ple has a man­date to gov­ern, but that man­date is not a li­cence to dis­miss crit­i­cism or treat dis­agree­ment as po­lit­i­cal hos­til­i­ty. In a democ­ra­cy, the right to ques­tion au­thor­i­ty is not an in­con­ve­nience. It is an es­sen­tial safe­guard.