For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has crit­i­cised Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, ac­cus­ing him of pri­ori­tis­ing the Po­lice Ser­vice over the wider pub­lic and mak­ing state­ments that are “bor­der­ing on be­ing dan­ger­ous and fright­ful”.

Tonight is Di­manche Gras, the pre­cur­sor to the cul­mi­na­tion of the Car­ni­val sea­son with Pa­rade of the Bands.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Min­is­ter of Sport, Olivia Grange has an­nounced that Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match­es will re­turn to Ja­maica for the first time in sev­en years.

Fresh off a sea­son of in­ter­na­tion­al ac­claim and cul­tur­al tri­umph, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s own Kes The Band is prepar­ing to car­ry the sound of the Caribbean across Eu­rope with the launch of their Roots, Rock, So­ca Tour, be­gin­ning April 30.

The IMF Mis­sions are un­der­tak­en as part of reg­u­lar (usu­al­ly an­nu­al) Ar­ti­cle IV con­sul­ta­tions. The IMF staff’s pre­lim­i­nary find­ings from its vis­it to T&T were pub­lished last week in its “Con­clud­ing State­ment.” Since the state­ment is ap­proved by the host coun­try pri­or to its re­lease, it does not gen­er­al­ly have any “sur­pris­es”. The state­ment is im­por­tant be­cause it pro­vides an im­par­tial view from an in­de­pen­dent third par­ty. The IMF can on­ly com­ment and rec­om­mend. A gov­ern­ment will de­cide which rec­om­men­da­tion it will ac­cept or ig­nore.