Sev­er­al parts of the coun­try awoke this morn­ing to ei­ther no elec­tric­i­ty or no pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply, or both, fol­low­ing the pas­sage of Po­ten­tial Trop­i­cal Cy­clone #2, last night.

On the day that First Cit­i­zens launched its Ad­di­tion­al Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (APO) it re­vealed to the mar­ket that it was seek­ing to bor­row close to $1.2 bil­lion from IDB In­vest or up to US $175 mil­lion.

Kendon Sut­ton and Ryan Baksh com­bined for 66 runs as Fight Spir­it de­feat­ed pre­vi­ous­ly un­beat­en East Side Ballers by four wick­ets in the fi­nal of the third edi­tion of the Sea Blast Su­per 6s Wind­ball Crick­et Five Overs Tour­na­ment, host­ed by To­co Sport­ing Acad­e­my, at Lawrence Woods Recre­ation Ground, Ram­panala­gas, To­co, on Sat­ur­day.

To­day, Trinidad and To­ba­go finds it­self of the cusp of a re­al lit­mus test for our nat­ur­al dis­as­ter re­sponse. If the fore­casts by the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­tre and T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice held for overnight in­to to­day, cit­i­zens will al­ready be see­ing signs of what the bad weath­er as­so­ci­at­ed with the trop­i­cal storm ex­pect­ed to sweep over the coun­try will bring.