As Caribbean coun­tries grap­ple with ex­treme heat and drought, the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) is warn­ing world lead­ers that cli­mate promis­es must trans­late in­to ac­tion and ac­ces­si­ble fi­nanc­ing for vul­ner­a­ble states.

Busi­ness groups have backed ef­forts to over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pub­lic pro­cure­ment sys­tem, but are warn­ing that greater speed and flex­i­bil­i­ty can­not come at the ex­pense of trans­paren­cy, com­pe­ti­tion and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana — Im­ran Tahir may be near­ing the half-cen­tu­ry mark, but the leg-spin­ner shows no signs of slow­ing down.

The dam was nev­er com­plet­ed, but the vil­lage Lawrence Pereira knew as a boy had al­ready been bro­ken apart.

In my ca­pac­i­ty as pres­i­dent of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion, I have been bom­bard­ed with nu­mer­ous vex­a­tious com­ments and in­quiries as per the Hon Prime Min­is­ter, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC’s in­vid­i­ous state­ment that the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill law would not ap­ply to Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-con­trolled con­stituen­cies be­cause the Op­po­si­tion is in­sist­ing it would turn the coun­try in­to a “po­lice state.”