The build­ing, lo­cat­ed be­hind the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion, was orig­i­nal­ly loaned to the Prison Ser­vice by the To­ba­go Po­lice Di­vi­sion.

A call has been made by tourism stake­hold­ers for more fund­ing to be al­lo­cat­ed to the sec­tor in the up­com­ing bud­get.

Every­where you turn to­day you're hear­ing about the ben­e­fits of im­ple­ment­ing Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) in sports. And no doubt about it, there are nu­mer­ous ben­e­fits in­clud­ing the im­proved ac­cu­ra­cy and pre­ci­sion that it can pro­vide.

In 2020, be­fore the pan­dem­ic, I was among sev­er­al writ­ers to at­tend a work­shop run by Earl Lovelace. The ar­rival to his home in the af­ter­noon stand­ing on a pitch-hot road at his gate, to be ush­ered past a dog that feels fierce, and fi­nal­ly, to sit at his ta­ble on his porch, dap­pled and green as a rain­for­est. To hear him read out loud, feel your ham­mer­ing heart as he gives a sen­tence you have writ­ten his full at­ten­tion, you feel like you have been ad­mit­ted in­to a holy space of es­sen­tial work.

As the Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion ap­proach­es, there has been a flur­ry of ac­tiv­i­ty by the Gov­ern­ment. There was a Cab­i­net re­treat at which 50 key mat­ters were dis­cussed. There was a suc­cess­ful bond is­sue on the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket. The Lo­ran Man­a­tee deal was con­firmed. An agree­ment to ex­plore three new deep­wa­ter blocs was an­nounced. An­oth­er agree­ment with Venezuela re­gard­ing the Drag­on Gas field was signed. These new de­vel­op­ments have been praised by the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty as they should be. The var­i­ous Cham­bers of Com­merce amongst oth­ers have al­so ex­pressed their bud­get day wish­es.