Af­ter three days on the rough seas, 16 Venezue­lan chil­dren, the youngest a four-month-old ba­by and the el­dest child 14 years, along with 12 adults, most­ly women, re­turned to the shores of Trinidad.

The Pres­i­dent and CEO of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) Nigel Bap­tiste has ex­pressed that the im­pact of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic would be felt in the economies in which the group op­er­ates for an­oth­er fi­nan­cial year.

ETO­BI­COKE, On­tario – Chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Jim Law­son said Wood­bine En­ter­tain­ment stood to lose more than CAN $50 mil­lion in rev­enue be­cause the lat­est COVID-19 lock­down in city of Toron­to has forced the ear­ly clo­sure of the thor­ough­bred rac­ing sea­son at its race­track.

When an ice cream ven­dor at the World’s Fair in St Louis, Mis­souri, USA, in 1904 ran out of pa­per cups, he was next to a waf­fle ven­dor who rolled the waf­fles in­to cones to hold the ice cream and this was where the ice-cream cone was cre­at­ed.

Events that led to four chil­dren be­ing tak­en in­to the cus­tody of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty were the sad pre­lude to yes­ter­day’s ob­ser­vance of World Chil­dren’s Day in T&T.