Trinidad and To­ba­go has fall­en 13 places in the 2026 World Press Free­dom In­dex re­leased to­day by Re­porters With­out Bor­ders, de­spite main­tain­ing what the re­port de­scribes as a “good record” and a “vi­brant me­dia land­scape.”

True’s Cre­ationz is just a lit­tle over a year old, and al­ready its own­er is get­ting her chil­dren in­volved in build­ing what she sees as their foun­da­tion for gen­er­a­tional wealth.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – De­spite play­ing their best crick­et of the com­pe­ti­tion, the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes are in a strug­gle to avoid de­feat against the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force at the An­tigua Recre­ation Ground in An­tigua on Tues­day.

In an evening marked by re­flec­tion, sto­ry­telling, pride and ca­ma­raderie, Coast Guard re­tirees who served dur­ing the tur­bu­lent pe­ri­od of the 1970 Black Pow­er move­ment were ho­n­oured at a 56th an­niver­sary re­cep­tion in Long­denville.

Over the past 18 years as a labour prac­ti­tion­er, I have heard a fa­mil­iar re­frain: that trade unions are be­com­ing ir­rel­e­vant and must piv­ot away from col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing and work­er pro­tec­tion to­ward ar­eas like train­ing, skills de­vel­op­ment and, now, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence. At first glance, this may ap­pear for­ward-look­ing and in align­ment with the cur­rent top­ic of the date. In re­al­i­ty, it re­flects a shal­low read­ing and un­der­stand­ing of labour dy­nam­ics and a trou­bling dis­re­gard for the lived re­al­i­ties of work­ers in a sys­tem that does not al­ways fa­cil­i­tate so­cial jus­tice.