Vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Mar­vel­lous Mar­va, whose re­al name was Mar­va Joseph, has died af­ter a ca­reer span­ning more than four decades in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mu­sic in­dus­try.

Na­tion­al Quar­ries Com­pa­ny Ltd says it has achieved a ma­jor fi­nan­cial turn­around, re­duc­ing pro­duc­tion costs to be­low its sell­ing price for the first time in years, a de­vel­op­ment that could sig­nif­i­cant­ly al­ter the eco­nom­ic jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed di­vest­ment of the State-owned en­ter­prise.

Basse-Terre, Guade­loupe – Saint Lu­cia se­cured a tense 2-1 vic­to­ry over Bermu­da to move with­in one point of au­to­mat­i­cal­ly qual­i­fy­ing for next year’s Con­ca­caf Gold Cup.

When far away from home, there is of­ten a part of us that longs for even the small­est piece of fa­mil­iar­i­ty. That was how 28-year-old Aman­da Ar­joon felt when she first moved near­ly 9,000 miles away from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

At the re­cent launch of the Call to Ac­tion for So­cial Change Foun­da­tion’s (NPO) 3 an­i­ma­tion videos at UWI, 12-year-old Je­leah Charles’ (Prov­i­dence Girls’ High School) spo­ken word piece The Words We Throw made an im­pact on us. It was writ­ten by her moth­er, Kedeasha Williams for the launch.