For­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent and ex-gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Jack Warn­er has won a de­ci­sive le­gal vic­to­ry af­ter the High Court per­ma­nent­ly stayed the ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings brought against him by the Unit­ed States, bring­ing to an end a decade-long le­gal bat­tle that reached the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice has re­port­ed no change in the in­fla­tion for June com­pared to the pre­vi­ous month, ac­cord­ing to the con­sumer price in­dex (CPI).

Akim Bushe of BIG South East Port-of-Spain (BIG SE­PoS) club has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of T&T's 12-mem­ber se­nior men's vol­ley­ball team, which de­parts Fri­day (Ju­ly 17) from 3 pm for Willem­stad, Cu­ra­cao, to con­test the in­au­gur­al Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Men’s Fi­nal-Four Cham­pi­onship at the Sala Er­rol Rooi Sen­tro De­porti­vo Ko­r­soul in Brie­ven­gat.

His work can be found in front of shops, on util­i­ty poles and along busy roads. Yet few know the man be­hind some of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most recog­nis­able hand-paint­ed signs.

There are mo­ments in in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions when pol­i­tics must give way to hu­man­i­ty. The re­cent ex­change of let­ters be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Venezuela’s Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez is one such mo­ment and should be wel­comed as an en­cour­ag­ing step to­ward re­pair­ing a re­la­tion­ship that has been strained in re­cent months.